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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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8Version 2.31
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10Major new features:
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12* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
13 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
14 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
15 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
16 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
17 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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19* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
20 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
21 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
22 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
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24* The gettimeofday function will no longer report information about a
25 system-wide time zone, expect for aarch64, powerpc, and x86 on Linux
26 which still uses the vDSO symbol (when available).
27
28 This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for many years, as it cannot
29 handle the full complexity of the world's timezones, but hitherto we have
30 supported it on a best-effort basis. Changes required to support 64-bit
31 time_t on 32-bit architectures have made this no longer practical.
32
33 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
34 will always receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
35 tz_dsttime fields are zero.
36
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37Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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39* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
40 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
41 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
42 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
43 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
44 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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46* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
47 binaries and it has been removed from <time.h> header. This function
48 has been deprecated in favor of clock_settime.
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50* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
51 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
52 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
53 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
54 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
55
56 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
57 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
58 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
59 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
60
61 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
62 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
63 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
64 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
65 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
66 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
67
68 Note that settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX.
69 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime and/or
70 the adjtime family of functions instead. We may also cease to make
71 settimeofday available to newly linked binaries after there is a
72 replacement for Linux's time-zone-like offset API.
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74* The obsolete functions ftime has been deprecated and will be removed from
75 a future version of glibc. Application should use clock_gettime instead.
76
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77Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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79 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
80
81Security related changes:
82
83 [Add security related changes here]
84
85The following bugs are resolved with this release:
86
87 [The release manager will add the list generated by
88 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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91Version 2.30
92
93Major new features:
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95* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
96 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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97 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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99* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
100 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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102* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
103 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
104 to the callback function.
105
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108* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
109 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
110 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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112* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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114* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
115 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
116 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
117 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
118 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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120* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
121 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
122 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
123 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
124 link time reference, is gone.
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126* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
127 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
128 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
129 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
130 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
131 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
132 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
133 the clock choice at initialization time).
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135* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
136 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
137 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
138
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139Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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141* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
142 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
143 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
144 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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145 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
146 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
147 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
148 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
149 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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151* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
152 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
153 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
154 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
155 since glibc 2.17.
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157* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
158 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
159
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160* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
161 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
162
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163* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
164 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
165
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166* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
167 BIND_NOW flag.
168
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169* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
170 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
171 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
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173* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
174 header have been removed.
175
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176* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
177 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
178 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
179 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
180
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181Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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183* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
184
185 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
186 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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188Security related changes:
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190 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
191 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
192 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
193 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
194 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
195 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
196 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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198 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
199 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
200 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
201
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204 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
205 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
206 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
207 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
208 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
209 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
210 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
211 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
212 invalid input drops valid char
213 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
214 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
215 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
216 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
217 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
218 malloc.h.
219 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
220 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
221 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
222 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
223 functions
224 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
225 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
226 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
227 for long double = double
228 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
229 long double = double
230 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
231 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
232 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
233 long timeouts
234 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
235 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
236 checking for NULL.
237 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
238 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
239 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
240 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
241 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
242 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
243 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
244 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
245 not the default "nor"
246 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
247 false positives, change to modern flexible array
248 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
249 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
250 compiler barriers.
251 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
252 unnecessary librt dependencies
253 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
254 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
255 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
256 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
257 unsorted chunk
258 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
259 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
260 to R_SPARC_H44
261 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
262 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
263 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
264 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
265 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
266 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
267 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
268 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
269 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
270 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
271 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
272 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
273 was not used
274 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
275 tests
276 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
277 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
278 time_t changes
279 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
280 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
281 kernels and break testing
282 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
283 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
284 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
285 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
286 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
287 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
288 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
289 -O3 -march=skylake
290 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
291 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
292 crash
293 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
294 linked glibc
295 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
296 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
297 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
298 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
299 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
300 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
301 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
302 always implemented in the same library
303 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
304 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
305 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
306 testroot
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311Major new features:
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313* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
314 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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316* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
317 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
318 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
319 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
320 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
321 configured location.
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424c4f60 323* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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325* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
326 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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328* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
329 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
330 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
331 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
332 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
333 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
334 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
335 process actually does not use HTM).
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338 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
339 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
340 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
341 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
342 of the same name.
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344* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
345 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
346 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 347 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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348 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
349
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350* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
351 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
352 supported:
353 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
354 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
355
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356* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
357 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
358 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
359 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
360 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
361 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
362 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
363
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364* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
365 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
366 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
367
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368Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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370* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
371 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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374 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
375 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
376 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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378* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
379 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
380 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
381 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
382 structures.
383
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385 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
386 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
387 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
388 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
389 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
390
391 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
392 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
393 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
394 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
395 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
396
397 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
398 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
399 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
400
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405* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
406 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
407
408 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
409 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
410
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413 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
414 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
415 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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418 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
419 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
420 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
421 Reported by H.J. Lu.
422
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423 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
424 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
425 or command injection issues in applications.
426
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429 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
430 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
431 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
432 thousands
433 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
434 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
435 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
436 --param options)
437 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
438 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
439 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
440 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
441 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
442 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
443 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
444 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
445 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
446 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
447 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
448 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
449 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
450 pointer argument is non-NULL
451 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
452 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
453 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
454 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
455 multithreads call popen
456 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
457 and pthread_create fails.
458 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
459 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
460 constructor
461 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
462 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
463 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
464 source tree
465 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
466 float
467 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
468 one error
469 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
470 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
471 linker
472 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
473 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
474 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
475 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
476 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
477 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
478 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
479 filesystems
480 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
481 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
482 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
483 functions
484 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
485 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
486 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
487 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
488 have wrong type
489 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
490 wrong type
491 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
492 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
493 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
494 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
495 threads
496 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
497 start.S
498 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
499 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
500 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
501 powerpc64le
502 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
503 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
504 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
505 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
506 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
507 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
508 strftime
509 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
510 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
511 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
512 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
513 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
514 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
515 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
516 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
517 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
518 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
519 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
520 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
521 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
522 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
523 tcache size
524 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
525 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
526 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
527 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
528 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
529 (CVE-2018-19591)
530 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
531 nearest rounding mode
532 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
533 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
534 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
535 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
536 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
537 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
538 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
539 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
540 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
541 error
542 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
543 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
544 using GCC 8
545 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
546 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
547 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
548 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
549 ppc64le
550 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
551 expected result
552 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
553 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
554 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
555 sigaltstack
556 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
557 answers will be rejected)
558 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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562
563Major new features:
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566 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
567 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
568 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
569 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
570 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
571 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
572 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
573 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
574 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
575 archive or binary locales.
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578 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
579 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
580 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
581 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
582 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
583 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
584 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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585 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
586 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
587 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
588 validated for i686.
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591 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
592 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
593 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
594 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
595 field) to indicate such support is required.
596
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598 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
599 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
600
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601* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
602 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
603
604 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
605 fMxaddfNx functions.
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607 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
608 fMxsubfNx functions.
609
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610 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
611 fMxmulfNx functions.
612
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613 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
614 fMxdivfNx functions.
615
e607a352 616* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 617 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 618 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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620 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 622* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 623 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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625* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
626 patches.
627
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628* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
629 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
630 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
631 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
632 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
633 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
634 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
635 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
636
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638 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
639 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
640 the fstatat64 function.
641
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642* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
643 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
644 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
645 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
646 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
647 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
648 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
649 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
650 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
651
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652* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
653 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
654 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
655 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
656 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
657 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
658 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
659 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
660 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
661 results in a load failure now.
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664 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
665 <threads.h>:
666
667 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
668 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
669
670 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
671 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
672
673 - call_once for function call synchronization.
674
675 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
676 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
677
678 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
679
680 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
681
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683
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684* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
685 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
686 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
687
688* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
689 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
690 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
691 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
692 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
693 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
694
695* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
696 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
697 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
698 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
699 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
700 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
701 (Bug #1190.)
702
703* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
704 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
705 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
706 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
707 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
708 further explanation.
709
710 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
711 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
712 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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714* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
715
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716* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
717 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
718 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
719
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720* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
721 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
722 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
723 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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725* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
726 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
727 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
728 for this function instead.
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730* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
731 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
732 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
733
734* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
735 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
736 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
737 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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739* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
740 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
741 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
742 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
743 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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745* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
746 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
747 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
748 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
749 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
750 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
751 such as libgcrypt.
752
753* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
754 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
755 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
756 enabled.
757
758* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
759 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
760 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
761
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762* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
763 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
764 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
765 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
766 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
767 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
768
769 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
770 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
771 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
772 behavior in a future release.
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775
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778Security related changes:
779
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780 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
781 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
782 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
783 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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785 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
786 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
787
788 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
789 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
790 Izbyshev.
791
792 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
793 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
794 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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798 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
799 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
800 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
801 when __WORDSIZE != 64
802 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
803 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
804 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
805 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
806 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
807 14651
808 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
809 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
810 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
811 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
812 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
813 conversion is given
814 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
815 date
816 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
817 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
818 scope with -O1 and higher
819 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
820 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
821 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
822 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
823 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
824 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
825 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
826 horrible machine code)
827 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
828 last constant.
829 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
830 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
831 symbols
832 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
833 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
834 defined
835 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
836 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
837 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
838 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
839 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
840 fpscr.c'
841 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
842 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
843 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
844 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
845 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
846 the base address
847 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
848 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
849 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
850 open_verify
851 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
852 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
853 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
854 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
855 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
856 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
857 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
858 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
859 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
860 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
861 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
862 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
863 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
864 dlopen
865 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
866 AT_SECURE=1
867 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
868 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
869 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
870 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
871 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
872 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
873 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
874 for Spanish with CLDR
875 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
876 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
877 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
878 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
879 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
880 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
881 es_BO
882 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
883 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
884 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
885 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
886 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
887 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
888 dlopen failures
889 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
890 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
891 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
892 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
893 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
894 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
895 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
896 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
897 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
898 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
899 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
900 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
901 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
902 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
903 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
904 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
905 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
906 makecontext
907 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
908 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
909 required
910 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
911 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
912 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
913 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
914 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
915 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
916 disabled
917 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
918 failure
919 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
920 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
921 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
922 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
923 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
924 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
925 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
926 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
927 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
928 and libc build with -Os)
929 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
930 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
931 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
932 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
933 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
934 that changes /etc/passwd
935 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
936 (CVE-2018-11237)
937 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
938 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
939 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
940 posix/regcomp.c
941 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
942 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
943 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
944 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
945 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
946 AT_SECURE
947 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
948 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
949 parser.c
950 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
951 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
952 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
953 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
954 directed rounding
955 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
956 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
957 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
958 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
959 lookup
960 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
961 interposition
962 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
963 DSO boundaries.
964 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
965 <linux/time.h>
966 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
967 checking
968 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
969 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
970 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
971 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
972 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
973 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
974 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
975 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
976 processors
977 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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980Version 2.27
981
982Major new features:
983
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984* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
985 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 986 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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987 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
988 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
989 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
990 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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991 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
992 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 993
ac817e08 994* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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995 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
996 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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998* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
999
4cf82d23 1000* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1002* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1003 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1004 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1005 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1006 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1007 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1008 from a security and performance perspective.
1009
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1010* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1011 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1012 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1013 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1014
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1016 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1017 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1018 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1019 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1020
a23aa5b7 1021* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 1022 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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1023 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1024 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1025 _Float128.
1026
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1027* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1028 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1029 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1030
4bab0224 1031* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1033* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1034 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1035 pkey_get.
1036
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1037* The copy_file_range function was added.
1038
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1039* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1040
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1041* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1042 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1043 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1044
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1045* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1046 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1047 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1048 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1049 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1050 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1051 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1052
1053 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1054 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1055 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1056 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1057 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1058 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1059 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1060
1061 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1062 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1063 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1064 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1065 respectively.
1066
1067 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1068 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1069 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1070 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1072 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1073 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1074 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1075
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1077 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1078 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1081 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1082 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1083
1084 - rv64imac lp64
1085 - rv64imafdc lp64
1086 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1087
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1088Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1089
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1090* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1091 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1092 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1093 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1094 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1095 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1096 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1097 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1098 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1099 fix this.
1100
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1101* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1102 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1103 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1104
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1105* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1106 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1107 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1108 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1109 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1110 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1111 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1112 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1113 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1114 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1115 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1116 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1117 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1118 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1119 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1120 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1121 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1122 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1123 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1124 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1125 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1126 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1127 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1128 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1129 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1130 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1133 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1136 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1137 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1138 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1139 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1140 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1141 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1142
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1143* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1144 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1145 exp10l for these functions instead.
1146
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1147* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1148 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1149 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1150
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1151* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1152 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1153 ignored.
1154
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1155* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1156 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1157 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1158 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1159
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1160* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1161 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1162
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1163* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1164 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1165
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1166* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1167 programs.
1168
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1169* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1170
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1171* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1172 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1173 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1174 instead.
1175
1176 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1177 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1178 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1179 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1180 use, but predates the bits convention.
1181
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1183
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1184* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1185 subdirectory.
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1187Security related changes:
1188
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1189 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1190 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1191 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1192 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1193 script.)
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1195 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1196 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1197 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1198 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1200 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1201 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1202 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1203 of service.
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1205 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1206 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1207 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1208
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1209 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1210 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1211 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1212 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1213
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1214 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1215 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1216 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1217 Qualys.
1218
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1219 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1220 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1221 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1222 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1223 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1224
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1225 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1226 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1227 current directory.
1228
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1229 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1230 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1231 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1232
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1233 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1234 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1235 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1236
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1237 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1238 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1239 small, instead of NULL.
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1242
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1243 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1244 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1245 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1246 locale
1247 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1248 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1249 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1250 cases
1251 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1252 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1253 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1254 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1255 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1256 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1257 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1258 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1259 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1260 "Bangla"
1261 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1262 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1263 width Latin characters
1264 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1265 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1266 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1267 letters
1268 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1269 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1270 (CVE-2009-5064)
1271 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1272 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1273 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1274 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1275 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1276 if malloc succeeded
1277 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1278 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1279 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1280 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1281 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1282 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1283 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1284 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1285 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1286 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1287 U+309A
1288 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1289 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1290 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1291 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1292 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1293 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1294 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1295 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1296 for Nicaragua
1297 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1298 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1299 are not found.
1300 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1301 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1302 access
1303 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1304 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1305 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1306 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1307 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1308 __regcall calling convention
1309 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1310 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1311 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1312 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1313 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1314 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1315 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1316 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1317 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1318 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1319 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1320 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1321 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1322 locale
1323 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1324 protector=all
1325 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1326 wcwidth
1327 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1328 consistency check failures
1329 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1330 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1331 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1332 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1333 PIE
1334 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1335 locales
1336 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1337 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1338 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1339 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1340 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1341 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1342 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1343 on memory allocation failure
1344 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1345 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1346 the suspect)
1347 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1348 default (i386)
1349 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1350 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1351 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1352 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1353 instead of EAI_NODATA
1354 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1355 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1356 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1357 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1358 implementation
1359 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1360 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1361 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1362 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1363 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1364 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1365 allocation in syscall loops)
1366 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1367 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1368 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1369 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1370 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1371 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1372 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1373 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1374 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1375 occur with -O3
1376 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1377 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1378 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1379 amounts)
1380 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1381 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1382 niu_NZ
1383 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1384 checks
1385 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1386 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1387 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1388 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1389 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1390 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1391 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1392 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1393 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1394 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1395 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1396 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1397 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1398 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1399 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1400 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1401 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1402 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1403 parsing after OOM
1404 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1405 object
1406 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1407 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1408 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1409 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1410 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1411 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1412 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1413 ppc64le
1414 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1415 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1416 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1417 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1418 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1419 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1420 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1421 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1422 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1423 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1424 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1425 math_force_eval
1426 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1427 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1428 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1429 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1430 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1431 the svid compat wrapper
1432 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1433 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1434 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1435 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1436 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1437 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1438 --verbose.
1439 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1440 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1441 to 2.26
1442 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1443 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1444 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1445 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1446 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1447 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1448 (CVE-2017-15804)
1449 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1450 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1451 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1452 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1453 failure."
1454 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1455 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1456 -m32
1457 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1458 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1459 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1460 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1461 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1462 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1463 inside the ASCII printable range
1464 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1465 -mlong-double-64
1466 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1467 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1468 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1469 Internet
1470 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1471 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1472 backslash
1473 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1474 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1475 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1476 heaps in an arena
1477 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1478 networking interface
1479 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1480 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1481 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1482 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1483 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1484 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1485 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1486 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1487 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1488 order
1489 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1490 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1491 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1492 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1493 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1494 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1495 same as for Croatian
1496 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1497 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1498 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1499 for initial thread"
1500 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1501 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1502 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1503 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1504 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1505 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1506 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1507 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1508 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1509 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1510 modified in case of success
1511 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1512 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1513 success
1514 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1515 stack-protector=all
1516 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1517 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1518 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1519 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1520 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1521 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1522 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1523 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1524 adding it on top
1525 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1526 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1527 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1528 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1529 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1530 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1531 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1532 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1533 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1534 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1535 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1536 elision and tunables
1537 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1538 "invalid" exception
1539 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1540 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1541 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1542 exception
1543 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1544 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1545 power4
1546 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1547 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1548 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1549 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1550 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1551 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1552 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1553 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1554 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1557Version 2.26
1558
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1559Major new features:
1560
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1561* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1562 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1563 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1564 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1565 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1566 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1567 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1568
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1569* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1570 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1571 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1572 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1573 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1574 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1575 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1577* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1578 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1579 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1580
2b2ccd0c 1581* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1583 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1584 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1585 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1587 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1588 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1589 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1590 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1591 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1593 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1594 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1595 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1597* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1598 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1600* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1601 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1602 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1603 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1605* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1606 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1607 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1608 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1610* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1611 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1612 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1613 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1615* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1616 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1617 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1618
2b2ccd0c 1619* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1620 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1621 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1622 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1623
2b2ccd0c 1624 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1625 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1626 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1627 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1628 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1629
1630 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1631 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1632 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1633 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1634 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1635 interfaces should be used instead.
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1637Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1638
1639* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1640 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1641 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1642 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1643 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1644 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1645 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1646 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1647
1648* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1649 removed.
1650
1651* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1653 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1654 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1655
1656* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1657 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1658 default.
1659
1660 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1661 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1662 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1663 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1664 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1666 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1667 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1668 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1669 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1670
1671* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1672 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1673 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1674 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1675
1676* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1677 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1679* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1680 exported by accident.
1681
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1682* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1683 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1684 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1685
1686* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1687 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1688 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1689 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1690
1691* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1692
1693* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1694
1695* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1696 free instead.
1697
1698* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1699 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1700
1701* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1702 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1703
1704* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1705 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1706 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1707 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1708 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1709 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1710 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1711 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1712
1713* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1714 synced with the kernel:
1715
1716 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1717 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1718
1719 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1720 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1721 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1722
1723 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1724 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1725
1726Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1727
1728* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1729 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1730 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1731
7e368000 1732* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1735 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1737 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1738 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1739 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1740 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1741 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1744
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1746 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1747
1748* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1749 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1750
1751* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1752 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1753 (CVE-2010-3192).
1754
1755* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1756 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1758The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1760 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1761 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1762 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1763 fields
1764 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1765 (CVE-2010-3192)
1766 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1767 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1768 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1769 ld.bfd is available
1770 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1771 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1772 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1773 x86 and other generic code
1774 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1775 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1776 incorrect
1777 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1778 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1779 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1780 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1781 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1782 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1783 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1784 resolver
1785 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1786 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1787 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1788 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1789 chillu characters
1790 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1791 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1792 receiving data
1793 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1794 whitespace
1795 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1796 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1797 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1798 for Peru
1799 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1800 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1801 failures consistently
1802 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1803 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1804 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1805 frame-pointer on i386
1806 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1807 register
1808 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1809 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1810 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1811 generic c code is used
1812 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1813 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1814 around 4000
1815 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1816 (CVE-2017-12133)
1817 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1818 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1819 with -lieee
1820 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1821 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1822 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1823 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1824 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1825 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1826 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1827 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1828 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1829 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1830 remove()
1831 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1832 checked for errors.
1833 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1834 new posix_spawn implementation
1835 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1836 leads to lower CPU frequency
1837 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1838 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1839 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1840 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1841 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1842 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1843 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1844 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1845 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1846 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1847 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1848 not support gethostbyname4_r
1849 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1850 switching
1851 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1852 arenas
1853 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1854 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1855 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1856 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1857 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1858 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1859 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1860 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1861 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1862 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1863 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1864 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1865 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1866 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1867 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1868 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1869 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1870 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1871 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1872 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1873 retry value
1874 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1875 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1876 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1877 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1878 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1879 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1880 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1881 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1882 [21537] libc:
1883 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1884 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1885 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1886 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1887 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1888 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1889 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1890 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1891 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1892 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1893 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1894 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1895 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1896 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1897 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1898 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1899 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1900 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1901 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1902 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1903 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1904 issue on x86-64
1905 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1906 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1907 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1908 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1909 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1910 construction
1911 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1912 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1913 between_2_3
1914 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1915 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1916 conditions
1917 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1918 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1919 Hindi Locale
1920 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1921 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1922 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1923 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1924 locale
1925 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1926 leading to relocation crash
1927 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1928 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1929 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1930 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1931 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1932 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1933 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1934 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1935 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1936 locale
1937 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1938 locale
1939 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1940 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1941 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1942 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1943 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1944 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1945 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1946 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1947 strings
1948 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1949 protector=all
1950 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1951 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1952 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1953 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1954 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1955 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1956 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1957 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1958 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1959 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1960 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1961 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1962 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1963 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1964 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1965 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1966 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1967 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1968 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1969 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1970 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1971 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1972 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1973 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1974 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1975 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1976 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1977 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1978 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1979 with unicode 9.0
1980 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1981 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1982 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1983 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1984 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1988
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1989* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1990 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1991 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1992 Library.
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1994* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1995 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1996 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1997 the GNU C Library.
1998
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1999* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2000 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2001 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2002 the GNU C Library.
2003
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2004* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2005 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2006 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2007 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2008 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2009 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2010 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2011 will not.
2012
2013 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2014 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2015 many years.
2016
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2017* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2018 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2019 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2020
2021 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2022 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2023 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2024 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2025 problem.
2026
ec94343f 2027* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2028 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2029 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2031* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2032 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2033 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2034 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2035 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2036 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2037 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2038 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2039 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2040 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2041 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2042 WINT_WIDTH.
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2044* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2045
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2046 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2047
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2048 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2049 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2050 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2051
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2052 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2053 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2054
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2055 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2056 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2057
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2058 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2059
29cb9293 2060 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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2062 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2063 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2064
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2065 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2066
eb3c12c7 2067 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2068 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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2070* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2071 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2072
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2073* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2074 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2075 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2076
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2077* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2078 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2079 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2080 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2081 effects of the memory clear).
2082
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2083* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2084 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2085 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2086 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2087
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2088* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2089 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2090 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2091 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2092 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2093 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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2095* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2096 have been added.
2097
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2098* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2099 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2100 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2101 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2102 as large as several megabytes.
2103
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2104* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2105 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2106 been removed.
2107
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2108* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2109 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2110 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2111 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2112 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2113 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2114 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2115
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2116* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2117 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2118 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2119 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2120
099191b1 2121* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2122 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2123 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2124 Internet.
2125
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2126* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2127 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2128 They were already unimplemented.
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2130* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2131 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2132 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2133 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2134
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2135* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2136 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2137 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2138 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2139 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2140
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2141* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2142 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2143 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2144 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2145 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2146
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2147* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2148 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2149 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2150 did not reflect that.
2151
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2152* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2153 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2154 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2155 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2156 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2157 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2158 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2159 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2160
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2161* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2162 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2163 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2164 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2165
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2167 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2168 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2169 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2170
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2172 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2173 guarantees.
2174
2175* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2176 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2177 make state changes.
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2180
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2183 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2184 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2185 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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2188 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2189 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2190 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2191 (CVE-2015-5180)
2192
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2194
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2195 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2196 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2197 protector-all
2198 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2199 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2200 before it started waiting
2201 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2202 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2203 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2204 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2205 wrong type
2206 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2207 library linked with pthread
2208 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2209 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2210 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2211 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2212 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2213 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2214 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2215 when it shouldnt
2216 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2217 not
2218 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2219 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2220 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2221 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2222 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2223 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2224 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2225 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2226 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2227 termination
2228 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2229 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2230 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2231 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2232 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2233 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2234 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2235 causes a segmentation fault
2236 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2237 linking
2238 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2239 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2240 uninitialized GOT
2241 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2242 versions
2243 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2244 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2245 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2246 is always true.
2247 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2248 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2249 modes
2250 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2251 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2252 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2253 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2254 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2255 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2256 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2257 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2258 libpthread.a
2259 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2260 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2261 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2262 _res_hconf
2263 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2264 information.
2265 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2266 penalty
2267 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2268 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2269 cause transition penalty
2270 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2271 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2272 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2273 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2274 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2275 mcount.oS)
2276 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2277 Checking
2278 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2279 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2280 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2281 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2282 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2283 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2284 multi-arch
2285 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2286 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2287 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2288 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2289 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2290 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2291 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2292 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2293 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2294 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2295 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2296 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2297 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2298 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2299 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2300 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2301 glibc
2302 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2303 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2304 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2305 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2306 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2307 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2308 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2309 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2310 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2311 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2312 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2313 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2314 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2315 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2316 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2317 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2318 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2319 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2320 RES_USE_INET6
2321 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2322 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2323 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2324 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2325 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2326 wrong condition
2327 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2328 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2329 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2330 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2331 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2332 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2333 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2334 clang
2335 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2336 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2337 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2338 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2339 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2340\f
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2341Version 2.24
2342
5b4ecd3f
JM
2343* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2344 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2345 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2346 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2347 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2348 architectures.
2349
b6ebba70
MF
2350* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2351 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2352 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2353
7584a3f9
FW
2354* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2355 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2356
b49ab5f4
FW
2357* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2358 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2359 instead of “union wait”.
2360
ced8f893
SG
2361* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2362 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2363 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2364 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2365 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2366 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2367 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2368
2ba3cfa1
FW
2369* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2370 API.
2371
b7a9b7b0
MF
2372* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2373 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2374 drop it.
6a54bcda 2375
41a359e2
RS
2376* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2377 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2378 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2379 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2380 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2381 extensions.
2382
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2383Security related changes:
2384
f5b3338d
FW
2385* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2386 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2387 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2388
4ab2ab03
FW
2389* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2390 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2391 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2392 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2393
5171f307
FW
2394* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2395 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2396 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2397
bc779a1a
FW
2398* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2399 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2400 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2401
fab38231
FW
2402* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2403 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2404 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2405 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2406
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2407The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2408
3c4f81ec
CD
2409 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2410 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2411 of MS-DOS.
2412 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2413 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2414 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2415 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2416 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2417 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2418 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2419 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2420 CLDR data
2421 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2422 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2423 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2424 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2425 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2426 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2427 romanisation
2428 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2429 and +/-
2430 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2431 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2432 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2433 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2434 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2435 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2436 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2437 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2438 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2439 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2440 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2441 all locales
2442 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2443 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2444 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2445 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2446 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2447 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2448 execute
2449 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2450 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2451 -Wsystem-headers
2452 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2453 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2454 Romanian locale data
2455 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2456 symbol
2457 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2458 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2459 language
2460 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2461 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2462 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2463 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2464 machine
2465 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2466 description
2467 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2468 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2469 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2470 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2471 when using RTLD_NEXT
2472 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2473 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2474 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2475 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2476 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2477 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2478 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2479 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2480 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2481 Excavator core
2482 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2483 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2484 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2485 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2486 double range
2487 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2488 part zero incorrect
2489 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2490 equality tests
2491 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2492 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2493 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2494 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2495 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2496 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2497 glibc-2.22
2498 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2499 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2500 'tst-numeric.c'
2501 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2502 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2503 low part
2504 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2505 result
2506 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2507 unaligned stack
2508 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2509 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2510 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2511 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2512 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2513 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2514 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2515 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2516 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2517 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2518 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2519 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2520 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2521 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2522 modes
2523 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2524 server addresses
2525 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2526 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2527 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2528 response to getaddrinfo
2529 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2530 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2531 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2532 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2533 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2534 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2535 sometimes incorrect
2536 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2537 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2538 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2539 record types
2540 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2541 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2542 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2543 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2544 (CVE-2016-3075)
2545 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2546 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2547 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2548 resolving symbols
2549 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2550 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2551 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2552 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2553 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2554 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2555 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2556 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2557 gethosts
2558 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2559 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2560 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2561 (CVE-2016-3706)
2562 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2563 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2564 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2565 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2566 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2567 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2568 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2569 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2570 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2571 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2572 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2573 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2574 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2575 executable
2576 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2577 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2578 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2579 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2580 XPG3
2581 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2582 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2583 (CVE-2016-4429)
2584 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2585 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2586 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2587 AS not supporting AVX512
2588 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2589 sNaN argument
2590 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2591 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2592 argument
2593 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2594 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2595 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2596 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2597 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2598 eax=0x80000001
2599 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2600 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2601 subnormals
2602 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2603 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2604 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2605 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2606 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2607 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2608 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2609 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2610 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2611 input
2612 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2613 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2614 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2615 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2616 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2617 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2618 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2619 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2620 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2621 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2622 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2623 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2624 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2625 double rounding
2626 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2627 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2628 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2629 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2630 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2631 (Only arm/linux)
2632 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2633 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2634 fallbacks
2635 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2636 "invalid" exceptions
2637 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2638 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2639 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2640 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2641 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2642 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2643 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2644 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2645 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2647Version 2.23
2648
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2649* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2650 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2651 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2652 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2653 89, 16061, and 18568.
2654
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2655* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2656 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2657 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2658 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2659 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2660 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2661 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2662
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2663* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2664 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2665 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2666
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2667* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2668 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2669 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2670 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2671 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2672 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2673 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2674
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2675* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2676 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2677 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2678 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2679 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2680 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2681 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2682 Ericsson.)
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2684* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2685 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2686 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2687 independent of the GNU C Library.
2688
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2689* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2690 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2692* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2693 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2694 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2695 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2696 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2697 Linux kernel.
2698
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2699* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2700 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2702* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2703 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2704 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2705 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2706 defining their own copy.
2707
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2708* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2709 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2710 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2712Security related changes:
2713
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2714* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2715 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2716
2717* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2718 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2719 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2720 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2721 (CVE-2015-8777)
2722
2723* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2724 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2725
2726* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2727 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2728
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2729* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2730 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2731 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2733* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2734 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2735 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2736 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2737 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2738 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2739 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2740 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2741 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2742 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2743 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2744 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2745 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2746
ad372e29 2747The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2749 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2750 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2751 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2752 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2753 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2754 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2755 use `mkstemp'
2756 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2757 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2758 overflow/underflow errors
2759 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2760 overflow/underflow
2761 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2762 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2763 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2764 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2765 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2766 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2767 are not contiguous
2768 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2769 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2770 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2771 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2772 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2773 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2774 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2775 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2776 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2777 all exceptions
2778 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2779 arguments
2780 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2781 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2782 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2783 should include
2784 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2785 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2786 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2787 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2788 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2789 GNU/Linux
2790 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2791 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2792 arguments
2793 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2794 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2795 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2796 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2797 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2798 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2799 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2800 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2801 rounding results
2802 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2803 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2804 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2805 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2806 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2807 fails
2808 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2809 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2810 block boundary
2811 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2812 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2813 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2814 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2815 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2816 4.7?
2817 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2818 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2819 (related to lock elision)
2820 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2821 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2822 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2823 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2824 (CVE-2015-8779)
2825 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2826 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2827 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2828 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2829 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2830 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2831 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2832 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2833 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2834 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2835 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2836 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2837 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2838 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2839 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2840 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2841 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2842 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2843 contains a vector instruction exception.
2844 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2845 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2846 locales
2847 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2848 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2849 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2850 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2851 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2852 missing break ?
2853 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2854 32bit processes
2855 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2856 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2857 infinity
2858 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2859 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2860 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2861 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2862 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2863 be forced unloaded
2864 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2865 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2866 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2867 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2868 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2869 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2870 statically too large
2871 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2872 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2873 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2874 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2875 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2876 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2877 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2878 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2879 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2880 FUTEX_SHARED
2881 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2882 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2883 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2884 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2885 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2886 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2887 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2888 opendir()
2889 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2890 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2891 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2892 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2893 signgam
2894 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2895 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2896 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2897 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2898 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2899 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2900 dependencies
2901 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2902 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2903 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2904 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2905 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2906 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2907 (CVE-2015-8776)
2908 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2909 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2910 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2911 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2912 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2913 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2914 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2915 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2916 contention
2917 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2918 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2919 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2920 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2921 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2922 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2923 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2924 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2925 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2926 rounding modes
2927 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2928 ILP32
2929 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2930 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2931 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2932 threshold
2933 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2934 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2935 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2936 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2937 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2938 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2939 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2940 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2941 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2942 pthread_setaffinity_np
2943 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2944 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2945 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2946 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2947 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2948 prelink
2949 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2950 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2951 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2952 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2953 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2954 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2955 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2956 bits/mathcalls.h
2957 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2958 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2959 for C99-based standards
2960 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2961 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2962 math-only
2963 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2964 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2965 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2966 disabled
2967 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2968 "inexact" exceptions
2969 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2970 arguments
2971 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2972 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2973 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2974 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2975 rules
2976 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2977 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2978 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2979 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2980 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2981 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2982 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2983 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2984 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2985 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2986 from 32bit
2987 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2988 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2989 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2990 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2991 subnormals
2992 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2993 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2994 error on 32-bit architectures
2995 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2996 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2997 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2998 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2999 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3000 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3001 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3002 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3003 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3004 -Os
3005 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3006 CPU's.
3007 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3008 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3009 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3010 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3011 architectures
3012 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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3014Version 2.22
3015
3016* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3017
3df5cd98 3018 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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3019 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3020 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3021 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3022 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3023 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3024 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3025 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3026 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3027 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3028 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3029 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3030 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3031 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3032 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3033 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3034 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3035 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3036 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3037 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3038
f7fba805
SL
3039* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3040 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3041
2959eda9
AS
3042* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3043 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3044 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3045 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3046 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3047 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3048
42261ad7
FW
3049* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3050 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3051 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3052 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3053 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3054
afcd9480
AM
3055* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3056 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3057 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3058
4a4839c9
AO
3059* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3060 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3061 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3062 17998.
3063
b13b96ca
AS
3064* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3065 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3066 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3067
3068* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3069 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3070 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3071 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3072 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3073 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3074 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3075 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3076
3077* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3078 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3079 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3080 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3081
3082* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3083 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3084 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3085
3086* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3087 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3088
3089* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3090 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3091 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3092
a03ba363 3093 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3094 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3095 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3096\f
58b930ae
SP
3097Version 2.21
3098
3099* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3100
042e1521 3101 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3102 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3103 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3104 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3105 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3106 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3107 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3108 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3109 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3110 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3111 17892.
3112
46d54873
FW
3113* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3114 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3115 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3116 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3117 intended.
042e1521
CD
3118
3119* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3120 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3121 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3122 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3123 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3124 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3125
522e6ee3
CLT
3126* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3127
d3b00f46
AZ
3128* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3129 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3130 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3131
8d2c0a59
AZ
3132* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3133 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3134 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3135 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3136 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3137 effects being visible outside transactions.
3138
dc400d7b
RE
3139* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3140 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3141
0f9dfe04
L
3142* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3143
a39208bd
CD
3144* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3145 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3146 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3147 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3148 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3149
a5357b7c
JL
3150* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3151 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3152
e54db0ea
AM
3153* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3154 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3155 format.
11e3417a 3156
4863355a
JM
3157* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3158 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3159 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3160
a4ecc9eb
JM
3161* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3162 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3163
0d560bbf 3164* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3165
3166* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3167 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3168 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3169 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3170
3171* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3172 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3173
3174* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3175 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3176 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3177 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3178 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3179 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3180 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3181 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3182 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3183 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3184 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3185 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3186 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3187
3188 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3189 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3190 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3191 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3192 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3193\f
d5b396c1
AM
3194Version 2.20
3195
3196* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3197
6a9350c8
JM
3198 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3199 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3200 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3201 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3202 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3203 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3204 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3205 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3206 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3207 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3208 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3209 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3210 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3211 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3212 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3213
95ee7fb1
SL
3214* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3215 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3216 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3217 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3218 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3219 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3220 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3221 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3222 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3223 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3224
0961f7e1
JL
3225* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3226 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3227 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3228 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3229 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3230
f940b965
RE
3231* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3232
d0f5b3f8
JM
3233* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3234 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3235
d6fe5e58
JM
3236* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3237 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3238 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3239 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3240 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3241 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3242
464263cc
JM
3243* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3244 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3245
3246* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3247 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3248 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3249 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3250 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3251 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3252 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3253
3254* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3255
3256* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3257 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3258 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3259 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3260 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3261 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3262 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3263
3264* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3265 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3266 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3267 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3268 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3269
3270* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3271 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3272 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3273
3274* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3275 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3276 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3277 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3278
3279* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3280 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3281 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3282 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3283 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3284 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3285 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3286 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3287
3288* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3289 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3290 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3291 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3292 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3293 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3294 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3295 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3296 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3297
3298* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3299 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3300 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3301 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3302 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3303 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3304
3305* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3306 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3307 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3308 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3309\f
3310Version 2.19
3311
3312* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3313
fd2f9486
JM
3314 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3315 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3316 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3317 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3318 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3319 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3320 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3321 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3322 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3323 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3324 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3325 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3326 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3327 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3328 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3329 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3330 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3331 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3332
11520a57
CD
3333* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3334 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3335
2fe16229
CD
3336* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3337 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3338 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3339 extension which uses __block.
3340
303e567a
SP
3341* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3342 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3343 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3344 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3345 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3346
141f3a77
SP
3347* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3348 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3349 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3350 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3351 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3352
3353* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3354 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3355 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3356 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3357 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3358
3359* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3360 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3361 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3362
ba0d798c
WN
3363* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3364 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3365 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3366 #15856, #15857).
3367
7cbcdb36
SP
3368* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3369 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3370
82bab04b 3371* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3372 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3373
c5f840fd
MB
3374* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3375
3e181dda
CD
3376* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3377 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3378
3e181dda 3379* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3380
8a05c252
CL
3381* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3382
6055173a
JM
3383* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3384 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3385 for which the C library was built.
3386
b125d3e5
JM
3387* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3388 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3389 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3390 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3391 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3392 in the following circumstances:
3393
3394 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3395
3396 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3397 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3398
d4f66d37
JM
3399* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3400 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3401
3e181dda
CD
3402* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3403 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3404
ffb89e53
AO
3405* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3406
5d29ccce
SP
3407* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3408 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3409
8b7d57cd 3410* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3411
3412* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3413
fd712ef3 3414* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3415
c688b419
JM
3416* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3417 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3418 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3419 disable some of those declarations.
3420
7011c262 3421* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3422 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3423 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3424
3425* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3426 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
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3427
3428* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3429 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3430 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3431 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3432 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3433 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3434 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3435 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3436 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3437 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3438 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3439 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3440 require recompilation.
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3441\f
3442Version 2.18
3443
3444* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3445
17db6e8d 3446 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3447 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3448 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3449 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3450 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3451 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3452 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3453 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3454 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3455 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3456 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3457 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3458 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3459 15755, 15759.
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3460
3461* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3462 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3463 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3464 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3465 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3466 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3467
5b535ac4
AS
3468* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3469 #15078).
3470
1cef1b19
AS
3471* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3472 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3473
55e4107b
SP
3474* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3475 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3476 destructor calls to glibc.
3477
e5c74c63
SP
3478* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3479 output.
3480
3481* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3482 non-x86 architectures.
3483
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3484* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3485
3486* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3487
3488* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3489 Richard Henderson.
3490
3491* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3492
3493* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3494 Richard Henderson.
3495
3496* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3497 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3498
8cfdb7e0
SP
3499* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3500
57267616
TS
3501* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3502 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3503
c204ab28
SP
3504* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3505 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3506
0748546f
PE
3507* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3508 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3509 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3510
61dd6208
SP
3511* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3512 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3513 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
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3514
3515* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3516 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3517 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3518 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3519 mutexes.
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RA
3520
3521* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3522 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3523
3524* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3525\f
3526Version 2.17
3527
3528* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3529
80ceeaee 3530 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3531 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3532 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3533 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3534 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3535 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3536 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3537 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3538 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3539 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3540 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3541 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3542 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3543 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3544 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3545
95b4f1b6
SE
3546* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3547
14bc93a9
JL
3548* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3549 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3550
b54eb3cb
JM
3551* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3552 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3553
7e2bd01f
MS
3554* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3555
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AK
3556* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3557 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3558 zEnterprise z196.
3559 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3560
84b3fd84
FW
3561* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3562 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3563 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3564
815e6fa3
GB
3565* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3566 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3567
400726de
MK
3568* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3569 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3570
7aab07e4 3571* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3572 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3573
15d0da8c
WS
3574* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3575 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3576
3cc3ef96
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3577* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3578 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
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3579 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3580 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3581
b54eb3cb
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3582* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3583 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3584
85429b1a 3585* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3586 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3587 default.
3588
b54eb3cb
JM
3589* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3590 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3591 information in --help and --version output.
3592
050af9c4
SP
3593* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3594 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3595 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3596
89a3ad0b
AO
3597* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3598 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3599 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3600 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3601 when the mode is enabled.
3602
6e6249d0
RM
3603* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3604 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3605 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3606 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3607 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3608 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3609 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3610
d9286582
NK
3611* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3612 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3613\f
3614Version 2.16
3615
3616* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3617
a8133e19
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3618 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3619 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3620 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3621 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3622 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3623 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3624 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3625 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3626 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3627 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3628 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3629 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3630 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3631 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3632 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3633 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3634 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3635 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3636 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3637 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3638 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3639 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3640 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3641
a086b4d6
L
3642* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3643 configuring glibc with:
3644 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3645 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3646 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3647
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3648* ISO C11 support:
3649
3650 + define static_assert
3651
3652 + do not declare gets
3653
3654 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3655
3656 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3657 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3658 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3659 implementation.
8d44e150 3660
74033a25 3661 + timespec_get added
544563c9
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3662
3663 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3664
ac097f5c
UD
3665 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3666
16dd419d
UD
3667 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3668
9dc4e1fb 3669* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
3670
3671* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3672
3673* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3674 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3675
3676* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3678
3679* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3680 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3681 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3682 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3683 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3684
21708942 3685* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3686 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3687 before 2.6.
83678f76 3688
edb00e4d
RH
3689* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3690 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3691 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3692
83678f76 3693* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3694
3695* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3696 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3697 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3698 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3699 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3700
3701* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3702
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3703* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3704 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3705
3706* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3707
3708* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3709 without a previously built glibc.
3710
3711* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3712 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3713
3714* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3715 now supported for ARM processors.
3716
3717* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3718 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3719 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3720
3721* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3722
3723* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3724 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3725 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3726 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3727
3728* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3729 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3730 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3731 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3732
3733* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3734 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3735 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3736 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3737 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3738
3739* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3740 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3741 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3742 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3743\f
e80fab37 3744Version 2.15
11988f8f 3745
c0244a9d
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3746* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3747
aebae053
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3748 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3749 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3750 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3751 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3752 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3753 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3754 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3755
11988f8f
UD
3756* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
3758
3759* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3760 and support for initgroups lookups.
3761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3762
3763* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3764 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3765
3766* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3767 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3768
fc2ee42a
LD
3769* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3770 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3771 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3772
d42964a0 3773* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3774 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3775
1d3e4b61
UD
3776* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3777 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3778 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3779
c55fbd1e
UD
3780* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3781 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
3782
3783* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3784 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
3785
3786* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3788
3789* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3790 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3791
3792* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3793 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3794
3795* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3796 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
3797
3798* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3799
3800* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3802
f0b264f1
AZ
3803* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3804 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3805
6b64057b 3806* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3807\f
dded88cd 3808Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3809
50934221
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3810* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3811
553149f6 3812 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3813 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3814 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3815 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3816 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3817 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3818 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3819 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3820 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3821 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3822
7b57bfe5
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3823* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3824 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3825 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3826 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3827
3828 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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3829 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3830 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
UD
3831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3832
c6489db3 3833* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3834 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3835
72d1dddb 3836* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3837 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3838
3839* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3840
3841* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3842 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3844* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3845 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3846 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3847 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3852
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3853 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3854 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3855 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3856 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3857 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3858
10b3bedc 3859* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3860
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3863* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3864 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3865 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3868
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3870
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3871 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3872 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3873 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3874 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3875 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3876 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3877 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3878 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3880* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3882* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3883
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3884* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3885
3886* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3887 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3891 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3892 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3893 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3894 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3895
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3899
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3901
3902 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3903 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3904 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3905 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3906 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3907 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
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3909* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3910 mkostemps64
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3912
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3914 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3915
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3916* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3917 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3918
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3919* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3920
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9d36a6c4 3922 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3923 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3925
9d36a6c4 3926 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3928
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3929* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3930 strstr, strcasestr.
3931 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3932
3933* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3934 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3935
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3936* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3937 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3938
3939* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3940 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3941
3942* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3943 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3944 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3945 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3946 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3947 necessity is every process again.
3948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3949
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3950* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3951 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3952
3953* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3954 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3955
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3956* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3957 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3959
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3963
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3965
3966 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3967 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3968 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3969 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3970 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3971
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3973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3974
425ce2ed 3975* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3977
1fdd89a7 3978* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3979 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3981* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3982 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3984* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3987* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3989
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3990* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3991 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3992
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3993* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3994 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3995
3996* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3997 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3999
735be400 4000* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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4003 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4004
4005* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4006 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4007 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4008
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4009* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4011
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4012* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4013 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4014 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4015 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4016 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4020
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4021* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4022
4023 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4024 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4025 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4026 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4027 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4028
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4030 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4031
4032* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4033 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4035* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4036 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4038* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4039 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4041
4042* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4043 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4046
4047* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4048 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4050* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4051 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4052 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4054
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4055* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4056 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4058* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4059 Sinhala)
48b22986 4060 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4062* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4065
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4066* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4067
4068 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4069 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4070 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4071 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4072 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4073 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4074 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4075
e038616f 4076* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 4078* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4080* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4081 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4082
4083* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4084
4085* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4086 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4087
4088* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4089 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4090
4091* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4092 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4093 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4094
4095* Faster memset for x86-64.
4096 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4097
4098* Faster memcpy on x86.
4099 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4100
4101* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4102 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4104* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4105 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4107Version 2.7
4108
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4109* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4110
4111 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4112 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4113 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4114 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4115 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4116
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4117* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4118 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4119
4120* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4121
4122* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4123 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4124 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4125
4126* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4127 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4128
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4130 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4131
4132* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4133
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4134* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4135 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4136
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4137* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4138 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4139
4140* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4141 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4142
4143* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4144
4145* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4146 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4148* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4149 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4150 yo_NG.
4151
4152+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4158
4159 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4160 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4161 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4162 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4163 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4164 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4165 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4166 4702, 4858
4167
bce20b9a 4168* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4171
b21fa963 4172* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4175
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4177
4178 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4179 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4180 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4181 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4182 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4183 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4184 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4185 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4186 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4187
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4189 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4192* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4193 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4194
871b9158 4195* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4197* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4200 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4201 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4204
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4207 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4208 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4209
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4211 Ulrich Drepper.
4212
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4213* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4214
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4215* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4216 Ulrich Drepper.
4217
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4218* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4219
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4221 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4224
4225* More overflow detection functions.
4226
4227* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4228 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4230 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4231 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4232 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4233 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4234 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4235 by Masahide Washizawa.
4236
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4238 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4240* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4241 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4242 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4243 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4245* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4246 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4247
4248* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4249
4250* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4251 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4252 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4253
4254* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4255 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4256
4257* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4258 for compatibility with some other systems.
4259
4260* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4263
4264* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4265
4266 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4267 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4268 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4269 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4270 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4271 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4272
5a82c748 4273 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4275* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4276
4277* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4279Version 2.3.5
4280
4281* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4282
4283 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4284 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4285 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4286 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4287
5a82c748 4288 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4290Version 2.3.4
4291
4292* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4293 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4294
4295* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4296 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4297 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4298
4299* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4300 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4301
0325dd20 4302* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4303 efficiently.
4304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4305
4306* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4307 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4308 handling data.
4309
4310* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4311 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4312 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4313
4314* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4315 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4316
4317* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4318 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4319 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4320 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4321
4322* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4323 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4324 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4325 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4326
4327* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4328 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4329 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4330 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4331 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4333Version 2.3.3
4334
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4335* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4336 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4337
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4338* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4339 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 4340
69be6aaf 4341* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4342 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4343
4344* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4346
4347* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4348 by Roland McGrath.
4349
c5af724c 4350* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4351 and Ulrich Drepper.
4352
4353* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4354 RFC 3484.
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4356Version 2.3.2
4357
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4358* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4359 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4360 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4361 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4362 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4363 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4364 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4365 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4366 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4367
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4368* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4369 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4370 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4371
4372* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4373
4374* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4375 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 4376
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4377* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4378 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4379
52a16e58 4380* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 4381
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4382* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4383 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4384
4385* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4386 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4387 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4388 of weak definition in ld.so.
4389
4390* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4391 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4392
4393* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4394 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 4397
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4398* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4399 charsets.
4400
4401* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4402 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4403
bb0ec5bd 4404* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4405 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4406
4407* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4408 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4409
bb0ec5bd 4410* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4411 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4412 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4413
4414* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4415 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4416
bb0ec5bd 4417* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4418 implementation of regex.
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4419
4420* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4421 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 4422
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4423* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4424 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 4425
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4426* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4427 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4428 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4429
4430* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4431 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4432
4433* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4434 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4435 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4436
4437* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4438 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4439
4440* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4441 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4442 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4443
4444* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4446Version 2.2.6
4447
4448* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4449 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4450
4451* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4452 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4454Version 2.2.5
4455
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4456* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4457 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 4458
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4459* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4460 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4461
ad2e4f18 4462* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 4463
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4464* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4465
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4466* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4467 as well.
4468
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4469* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4470 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4471
4472* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4474Version 2.2.4
4475
2995f70e 4476* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4477 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4478
4479* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4480 support Unicode 3.1.
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4481
4482* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4483 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4484
69d5f925 4485* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4486
69d5f925 4487* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4488 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4489 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4490
4491* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4492 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4493
4494* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4495 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4496
4497* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4499Version 2.2.3
4500
1746f2b0 4501* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4502 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4503 in float, double, and long double format.
4504
f128331c 4505* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4506 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4507 128-bit long double format.
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4509* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4510 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4511 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4512 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4513
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4514* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4515 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4516 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4517
4518* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4519 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4520
4521* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4522 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4523
4524* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4525 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4526 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4527
4528* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4529 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4531* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4532 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4533
4534* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4536Version 2.2.2
4537
464d97ec 4538* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4539 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4540 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4541 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4542 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4543 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4544 other headers.
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4545
4546* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4547 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4548
4549* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4550 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4551 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4552 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4553
4554* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4555 locales. While
4556
4557 locale -a
4558
4559 only lists the names of the supported locales
4560
4561 locale -a --verbose
4562
4563 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4564 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4566Version 2.2.1
4567
4568* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4569 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4570 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4571 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4572 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4573
4574 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4575
4576 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4577
4578 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4579
4580* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4581 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4582 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4583
4584* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4585 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4586
4587* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4588 changed from the default "C" locale.
4589
4590* The usual bug fixes.
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4592Version 2.2
4593
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4594* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4595 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4596 is in progress.
4597
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4598* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4599
793bd4d9 4600* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4602 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4603 obviously requires a database library being available.
4604
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4605* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4606
abbffdf9 4607* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4608
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4609* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4610 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4611
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4612* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4613
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4614* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4615 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4616 and Mark Kettenis.
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4617
4618 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4619 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4620 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4621
a00c3ca9 4622 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4623 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4624
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4625* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4626 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4627 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4628
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4629* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4630 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4631 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4632 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4633
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4634 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4635 structures for the wide character tables.
4636
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4637* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4638
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4639* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4640
4641* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4642
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4643* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4644 and Yutaka Niibe.
4645
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4646* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4647
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4648* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4649
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4650* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4651
4652* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4653
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4654* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4655
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4656* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4657 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4658 implemented for Linux.
4659
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4660* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4661 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4662 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4663 versions.
4664
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4665* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4666 Masahide Washizawa.
4667
8f3f1e09 4668* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4669\f
4670Version 2.1.3
4671
4672* bug fixes
4673
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4675Version 2.1.2
4676
4677* bug fixes
4678
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4680Version 2.1.1
4681
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4682* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4683
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4684* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4685
407d26b7 4686* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4687
4688* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4689
407d26b7 4690* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4691
407d26b7 4692* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4693
4694* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4695
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4696* lots of charmaps corrections
4697
4698* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4699
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4701Version 2.1
4702
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4703* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4704 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4705 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4706 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4707 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4708 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4709
c84142e8 4710* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4711 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4712
1fb05e3d 4713* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4714 symbol level.
4715
4716* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4717 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4718
cbdee279 4719* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4720
4721* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4722 numbers.
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cbdee279 4724* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4725
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4726* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4727 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4728
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4729* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4730 library.
4731
e61abf83 4732* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4733 functions from ISO C 9X.
4734
4735* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4736 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4737
a5a0310d 4738* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4740* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4741
4742* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4743
440d13e2 4744* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4745
4746* Optimized string functions have been added.
4747
4748* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4749
4750* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4752* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4753 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4754
4755 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4756 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4757
0dee6738 4758 user system wall
48244d09 4759
0dee6738 4760 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4761
0dee6738 4762 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4763
0dee6738 4764 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
48244d09 4765
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4766 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4767
4768 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4769
4770 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4773 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4774 horribly slow.
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4777 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4779* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4781* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4783* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4784 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4785
4786* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4788* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4789 Bambrough.
4790
4791* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4792 latest draft standards.
4793
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4795
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4797~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4798addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4799alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4801argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4802argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4803argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4804argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4805argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4806argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4807argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4808argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4809argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4811authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4812authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4814backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4815backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4816cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4817cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4818cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4819cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4820cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4821cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4822capget NEW: kernel
4823capset NEW: kernel
4824carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4825cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4826cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4827casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4828casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4829casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4830casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4831casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4832casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4833catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4834catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4835catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4836catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4837catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4838catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4840ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4841ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4842ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4843ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4844ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4845ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4846cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4847cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4848cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4849cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4850cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4851cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4852clearerr_locked REMOVED
4853clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4854clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4855clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4856clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4857clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4858clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4859clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4860conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4861conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4862conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4863cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4864cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4865cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4866cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4867cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4868cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4869creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4870crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4871creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4872creat64 NEW: LFS
4873csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4874csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4875csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4876csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4877csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4878csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4879csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4880csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4881csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4882ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4883ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4884ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4885ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4886ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4887ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4888des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4889ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4890endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4891exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4892exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4893exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4894exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4895exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4896exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4897fattach NEW: STREAMS
4898fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4899fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4900fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4901fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4902feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4903fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4904fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4905fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4906feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4907feof_locked REMOVED
4908feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4909ferror_locked REMOVED
4910fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4911fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4912fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4913fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4914feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4915fflush_locked REMOVED
4916ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4917ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4918fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4919fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4920fileno_locked REMOVED
4921fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4922fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4923fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4924fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4925fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4926fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4927fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4928fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4929fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4930fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4931fopen64 NEW: LFS
4932fputc_locked REMOVED
4933fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4934fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4935freopen64 NEW: LFS
4936fseeko NEW: Unix98
4937fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4938fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4939fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4940fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4941ftello NEW: Unix98
4942ftello64 NEW: LFS
4943ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4944ftw64 NEW: LFS
4945fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4946gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4947gamma_r REMOVED
4948gammaf_r REMOVED
4949gammal_r REMOVED
4950getchar_locked REMOVED
4951getdate NEW: Unix98
4952getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4953getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4954getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4955getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4956getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4957getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4958getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4959getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4960getutxent NEW: Unix98
4961getutxid NEW: Unix98
4962getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4963glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4964globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4965gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4966gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4967grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4968host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4969iconv NEW: iconv
4970iconv_close NEW: iconv
4971iconv_open NEW: iconv
4972if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4973if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4974if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4975if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4976in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4977in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4978inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4979isastream NEW: STREAMS
4980iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4981key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4982key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4983key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4984key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4985key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4986key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4987key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4988key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4989key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4990llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4991llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4992llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4993llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4994llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4995llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4996log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4997log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4998log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4999lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5000lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5001lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5002lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5003lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5004lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5005lseek64 NEW: LFS
5006makecontext NEW: Unix98
5007mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5008mmap64 NEW: LFS
5009moncontrol REMOVED
5010modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5011nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5012nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5013nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5014nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5015nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5016nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5017netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5018netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5019nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5020nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5021nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5022nftw NEW: Unix98
5023nftw64 NEW: LFS
5024open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5025passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5026pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5027pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5028pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5029pread NEW: Unix98
5030pread64 NEW: LFS
5031printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5032printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5033profil_counter REMOVED
5034pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5035pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5036ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5037ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5038putc_locked REMOVED
5039putchar_locked REMOVED
5040putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5041putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5042putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5043pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5044pwrite NEW: Unix98
5045pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5046readdir64 NEW: LFS
5047readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5048remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5049remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5050remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5051round NEW: ISO C 9x
5052roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5053roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5054rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5055scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5056scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5057scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5058scandir64 NEW: LFS
5059sendfile NEW: kernel
5060setcontext NEW: Unix98
5061setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5062setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5063sighold NEW: Unix98
5064sigignore NEW: Unix98
5065sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5066sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5067sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5068sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5069sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5070sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5071sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5072sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5073statfs64 NEW: LFS
5074statvfs NEW: Unix98
5075statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5076strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5077strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5078strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5079strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5080svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5081svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5082svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5083swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5084tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5085tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5086tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5087tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5088tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5089tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5090trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5091truncate64 NEW: LFS
5092truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5093truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5094umount2 NEW: kernel
5095unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5096updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5097user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5098utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5099versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5100versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5101waitid NEW: Unix98
5102wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5103wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5104wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5105wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5106wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5107wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5108wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5109wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5110wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5111wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5112write_profiling REMOVED
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5114xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5115xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5116xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5117xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5118xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5119xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5120xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5121xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5122xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5123xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5124xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5125xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5126xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5127xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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5129\f
5130Version 2.0.6
5131
5132* more bug fixes
5133
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5134\f
5135Version 2.0.5
5136
5137* more bug fixes
5138
5139* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5140
5141* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5142
5143* rewrite of cbrt function
5144
5145* update of timezone data
5146\f
5147Version 2.0.4
5148
5149* more bug fixes
5150\f
5151Version 2.0.3
5152
5153* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5154\f
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5155Version 2.0.2
5156
5157* more bug fixes
5158
5159* add atoll function
5160
5161* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5162
5163* fix math functions
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5164\f
5165Version 2.0.1
5166
5167* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5168
5169* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5170
5171* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5172 the ELF dynamic loader.
5173
5174* support for parallel builds is improved
5175\f
40a4b79f 5176Version 2.0
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5178* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5179 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5180 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5181
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5182* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5183 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5184 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5185 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5186 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5187 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5188 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5189 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5190 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5191 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5192 files in the ELF format.
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5193
5194* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5195 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5196
5197* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5198 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5199 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5200 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5201 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5202 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5203 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5204 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5205 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5206 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5207 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5209* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5210 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5211 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5212 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5213 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5214
f7eac6eb 5215* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5216 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5217 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5218 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5219 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5220
5221* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5223* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5224 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5225 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5226 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5227 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5228 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5229 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5230 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5231 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5232
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5233* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5234 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5235 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5236
5237* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5238 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5239 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5240
5241* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5242 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5243 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5244 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5245
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5246* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5247 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5248 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5249
5250* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5251 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5252 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5253
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5254* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5255 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5256
f7eac6eb 5257* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5258 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5259 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5260 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5261
5262* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5263 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5264 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5265
71733723 5266* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5267 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5268 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5269 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5270 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5271 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5272 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5273 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5274
5275* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5276 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5277 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5278 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5279 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5280 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5281 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5282
5283* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5284 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5285 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5286 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5287 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5288 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5289
5290* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5291 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5292
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5293* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5294 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5295 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5297* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5298
5299* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5300 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5301 their use is discouraged.
5302
5303* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5304 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5306* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5307 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5308
5309* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5310 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5311
5312* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5313 see <dirent.h>.
5314
5315* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5316 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5317 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5318 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5319 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5320
5321* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5322 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5323 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5324 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5325
5326* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5327 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5328
5329* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5330 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5331 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5332 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5333 number generator.
5334
5335* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5336 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5337
5338* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5339 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5340
71733723 5341* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5342 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5343 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5344 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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5346* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5347
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5348* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5349 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5350 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5351
5352* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5353 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5355* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5356 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5357 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5358 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5359
5360* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5361 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5362 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5363 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5364 programs already written to use it.)
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5365
5366* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5367 constants.
5368
5369* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5370 with 4.4 BSD.
5371
5372* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5373 a given effective group ID.
5374
5375* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5376 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5377 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5378 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5379
5380* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5381 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5382 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5383 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5384 doing the same thing.
5385
5386* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5387 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5388
5389* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5390 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5391
5392* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5393
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5394* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5395 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5396 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5397 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5398 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5399
5400* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5401 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5402
5403* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5404 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5405 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5406 function.
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5407
5408* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5409
5410* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5411 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5412 strings.
5413
5414* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5415 and writing the utmp file.
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5416
5417* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5418 Thorsten Kukuk.
5419
5420* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5421 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5422 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5423
5424* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5425 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5426
5427* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5428 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5429 specification.
5430
5431* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5432 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5433 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5434 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5435
5436* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5437 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5438 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5439
5440* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5441 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5442 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5443 expression matcher.
5444
5445* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5446 functionality.
5447
5448* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5449 by Ulrich Drepper.
5450
5451* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5452
5453* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5454 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5455 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5456\f
5457Version 1.09
5458
5459* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5460
5461* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5462 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5463
5464* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5465 want to put themselves in the background.
5466
5467* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5468 run without an operating system.
5469
5470* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5471 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5472
5473* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5474 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5475
5476* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5477
5478* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5479 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5480 have YP (aka NIS).
5481
5482* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5483 conventions.
5484
5485* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5486 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5487\f
5488Version 1.08
5489
5490* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5491 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5492 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5493
5494* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5495 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5496
5497* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5498 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5499
5500* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5501
5502* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5503
5504* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5505 compatibility.
5506
5507* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5508 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5509 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5510
5511* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5512
5513* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5514 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5515 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5516
5517* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5518 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5519 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5520 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5521 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5522 on a block).
5523
5524* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5525 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5526 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5527 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5528 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5529 cross-compiler.
5530
5531* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5532 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5533\f
5534Version 1.07
5535
5536* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5537 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5538
5539* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5540 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5541 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5542
5543* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5544 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5545 address of the last character written.
5546
5547* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5548 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5549
5550* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5551 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5552
5553* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5554 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5555 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5556 you dereference this pointer.
5557
5558* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5559 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5560
5561* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5562 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5563 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5564 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5565
5566* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5567 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5568 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5569 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5570\f
5571Version 1.06
5572
5573* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5574 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5575 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5576 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5577 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5578
5579* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5580
5581* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5582
5583* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5584 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5585
5586* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5587 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5588
5589* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5590 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5591
5592* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5593 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5594 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5595 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5596 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5597
5598* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5599 to the error code in `errno'.
5600
5601* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5602 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5603 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5604 malloc'd string.
5605
5606* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5607 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5608 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5609
5610* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5611 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5613Version 1.05
5614
5615* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5616 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5617 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5618
5619* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5620 characters.
5621
5622* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5623 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5624
5625* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5626\f
5627Version 1.04
5628
5629* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5630 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5631 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5632 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5633
5634* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5635 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5636 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5637
5638* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5639 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5640
5641* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5642 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5643 made itself into a shared library.
5644
5645* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5646 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5647
5648* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5649 with limited length.
5650
5651* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5652
5653* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5654
5655* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5656
5657* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5658 function for traversing a directory tree.
5659
5660* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5661 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5662 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5663 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5664
5665* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5666 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5667
5668* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5669
5670* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5671 things to your strings.
5672
5673* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5674
5675* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5676 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5677 supporting those systems.
5678
5679* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5680 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5681 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5682 configuration files.
5683
5684* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5685 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5686
5687* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5689 in <strings.h>.)
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5690
5691* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5692 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5693 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5694 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5695 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5696 required storage is not available.
5697
5698* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5699 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5700
5701* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5702 latest files released from Berkeley.
5703\f
5704----------------------------------------------------------------------
5705Copyright information:
5706
c9123888 5707Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5708
5709 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5710 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5711 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5712 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5713
5714 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5715 of this document, or of portions of it,
5716 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5717 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5718\f
5719Local variables:
5720version-control: never
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