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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28
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10Major new features:
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12* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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16* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
17 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
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19 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
20 fMxaddfNx functions.
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22 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
23 fMxsubfNx functions.
24
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25 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
26 fMxmulfNx functions.
27
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28 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
29 fMxdivfNx functions.
30
c4ad5782 31* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
2e0c5de6 32 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Scottish Gaelic,
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33 Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now support
34 abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
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36* New locale added: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE), including the support of the
37 nominative and genitive month names.
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39* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
40 patches.
41
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42* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
43 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
44 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
45 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
46 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
47 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
48 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
49 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
50 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
51
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52* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
53 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
54 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
55 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
56 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
57 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
58 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
59 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
60 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
61 results in a load failure now.
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63Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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65* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
66 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
67 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
68
69* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
70 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
71 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
72 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
73 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
74 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
75
76* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
77 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
78 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
79 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
80 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
81 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
82 (Bug #1190.)
83
84* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
85 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
86 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
87 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
88 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
89 further explanation.
90
91 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
92 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
93 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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95* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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97* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
98 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
99 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
100
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101* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
102 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
103 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
104 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
105
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106* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
107 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
108 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
109 for this function instead.
110
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111* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
112 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
113 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
114
115* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
116 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
117 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
118 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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120* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
121 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
122 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
123 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
124 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
125
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126* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
127 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
128 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
129 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
130 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
131 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
132 such as libgcrypt.
133
134* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
135 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
136 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
137 enabled.
138
139* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
140 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
141 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
142
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143* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
144 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
145 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
146 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
147 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
148 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
149
150 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
151 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
152 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
153 behavior in a future release.
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155Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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157 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
158
159Security related changes:
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161 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
162 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
163 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
164 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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166 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
167 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
168
169 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
170 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
171 Izbyshev.
172
173 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
174 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
175 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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177The following bugs are resolved with this release:
178
179 [The release manager will add the list generated by
180 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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183Version 2.27
184
185Major new features:
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187* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
188 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 189 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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190 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
191 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
192 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
193 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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194 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
195 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 196
ac817e08 197* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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198 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
199 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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201* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
202
4cf82d23 203* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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205* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
206 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
207 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
208 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
209 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
210 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
211 from a security and performance perspective.
212
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213* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
214 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
215 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
216 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
217
81325b12 218* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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219 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
220 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
221 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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222 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
223
a23aa5b7 224* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 225 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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226 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
227 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
228 _Float128.
229
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230* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
231 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
232 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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4bab0224 234* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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236* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
237 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
238 pkey_get.
239
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240* The copy_file_range function was added.
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242* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
243
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244* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
245 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
246 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
247
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248* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
249 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
250 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
251 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
252 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
253 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
254 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
255
256 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
257 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
258 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
259 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
260 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
261 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
262 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
263
264 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
265 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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266 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
267 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
268 respectively.
269
270 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
271 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
272 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
273 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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275 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
276 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
277 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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279 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
280 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 281 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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283* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
284 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
285 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
286
287 - rv64imac lp64
288 - rv64imafdc lp64
289 - rv64imafdc lp64d
290
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291Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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293* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
294 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 295 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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296 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
297 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
298 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
299 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
300 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
301 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
302 fix this.
303
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304* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
305 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
306 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
307
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308* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
309 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
310 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
311 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
312 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
313 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
314 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
315 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
316 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
317 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
318 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
319 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
320 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
321 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
322 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
323 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
324 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
325 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
326 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
327 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
328 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
329 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
330 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
331 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
332 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
333 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
334
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335* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
336 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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338* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
339 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
340 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
341 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
342 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
343 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
344 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
345
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346* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
347 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
348 exp10l for these functions instead.
349
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350* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
351 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
352 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
353
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354* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
355 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
356 ignored.
357
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358* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
359 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
360 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
361 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
362
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363* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
364 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
365
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366* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
367 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
368
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369* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
370 programs.
371
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372* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
373
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374* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
375 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
376 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
377 instead.
378
379 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
380 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
381 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
382 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
383 use, but predates the bits convention.
384
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385Changes to build and runtime requirements:
386
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387* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
388 subdirectory.
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390Security related changes:
391
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392 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
393 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
394 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
395 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
396 script.)
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398 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
399 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
400 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
401 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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403 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
404 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
405 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
406 of service.
407
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408 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
409 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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410 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
411
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412 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
413 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
414 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
415 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
416
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417 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
418 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
419 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
420 Qualys.
421
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422 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
423 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
424 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
425 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
426 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
427
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428 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
429 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
430 current directory.
431
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432 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
433 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
434 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
435
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436 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
437 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
438 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
439
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440 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
441 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
442 small, instead of NULL.
443
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446 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
447 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
448 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
449 locale
450 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
451 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
452 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
453 cases
454 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
455 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
456 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
457 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
458 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
459 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
460 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
461 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
462 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
463 "Bangla"
464 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
465 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
466 width Latin characters
467 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
468 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
469 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
470 letters
471 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
472 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
473 (CVE-2009-5064)
474 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
475 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
476 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
477 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
478 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
479 if malloc succeeded
480 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
481 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
482 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
483 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
484 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
485 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
486 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
487 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
488 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
489 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
490 U+309A
491 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
492 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
493 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
494 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
495 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
496 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
497 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
498 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
499 for Nicaragua
500 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
501 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
502 are not found.
503 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
504 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
505 access
506 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
507 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
508 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
509 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
510 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
511 __regcall calling convention
512 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
513 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
514 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
515 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
516 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
517 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
518 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
519 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
520 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
521 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
522 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
523 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
524 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
525 locale
526 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
527 protector=all
528 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
529 wcwidth
530 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
531 consistency check failures
532 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
533 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
534 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
535 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
536 PIE
537 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
538 locales
539 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
540 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
541 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
542 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
543 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
544 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
545 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
546 on memory allocation failure
547 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
548 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
549 the suspect)
550 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
551 default (i386)
552 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
553 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
554 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
555 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
556 instead of EAI_NODATA
557 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
558 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
559 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
560 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
561 implementation
562 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
563 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
564 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
565 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
566 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
567 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
568 allocation in syscall loops)
569 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
570 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
571 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
572 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
573 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
574 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
575 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
576 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
577 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
578 occur with -O3
579 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
580 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
581 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
582 amounts)
583 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
584 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
585 niu_NZ
586 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
587 checks
588 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
589 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
590 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
591 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
592 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
593 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
594 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
595 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
596 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
597 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
598 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
599 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
600 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
601 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
602 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
603 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
604 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
605 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
606 parsing after OOM
607 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
608 object
609 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
610 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
611 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
612 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
613 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
614 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
615 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
616 ppc64le
617 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
618 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
619 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
620 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
621 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
622 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
623 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
624 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
625 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
626 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
627 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
628 math_force_eval
629 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
630 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
631 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
632 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
633 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
634 the svid compat wrapper
635 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
636 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
637 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
638 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
639 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
640 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
641 --verbose.
642 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
643 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
644 to 2.26
645 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
646 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
647 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
648 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
649 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
650 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
651 (CVE-2017-15804)
652 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
653 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
654 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
655 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
656 failure."
657 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
658 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
659 -m32
660 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
661 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
662 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
663 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
664 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
665 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
666 inside the ASCII printable range
667 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
668 -mlong-double-64
669 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
670 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
671 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
672 Internet
673 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
674 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
675 backslash
676 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
677 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
678 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
679 heaps in an arena
680 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
681 networking interface
682 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
683 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
684 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
685 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
686 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
687 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
688 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
689 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
690 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
691 order
692 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
693 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
694 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
695 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
696 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
697 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
698 same as for Croatian
699 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
700 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
701 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
702 for initial thread"
703 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
704 SC_SSIZE_MAX
705 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
706 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
707 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
708 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
709 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
710 (CVE-2017-1000408)
711 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
712 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
713 modified in case of success
714 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
715 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
716 success
717 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
718 stack-protector=all
719 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
720 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
721 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
722 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
723 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
724 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
725 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
726 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
727 adding it on top
728 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
729 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
730 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
731 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
732 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
733 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
734 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
735 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
736 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
737 (CVE-2018-1000001)
738 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
739 elision and tunables
740 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
741 "invalid" exception
742 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
743 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
744 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
745 exception
746 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
747 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
748 power4
749 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
750 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
751 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
752 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
753 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
754 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
755 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
756 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
757 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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760Version 2.26
761
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763
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765 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
766 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
767 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
768 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
769 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
770 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
771
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772* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
773 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 774 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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775 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
776 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
777 are rendered with pango, see for example:
778 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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780* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
781 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
782 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 784* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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786 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
787 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
788 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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790 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
791 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
792 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
793 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
794 object are still limited to six search domains.
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796 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
797 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
798 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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800* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
801 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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803* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
804 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
805 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
806 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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808* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
809 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
810 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
811 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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814 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
815 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
816 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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819 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
820 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
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2b2ccd0c 822* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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823 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
824 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
825 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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829 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
830 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
831 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
832
833 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
834 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
835 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
836 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
837 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
838 interfaces should be used instead.
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841
842* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
843 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
844 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
845 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
846 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
847 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
848 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
849 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
850
851* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
852 removed.
853
854* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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856 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
857 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
858
859* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
860 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
861 default.
862
863 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
864 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
865 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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866 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
867 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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869 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
870 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
871 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
872 name service modules, to be built and installed.
873
874* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
875 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
876 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
877 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
878
879* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
880 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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883 exported by accident.
884
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886 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
887 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
888
889* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
890 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
891 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
892 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
893
894* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
895
896* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
897
898* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
899 free instead.
900
901* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
902 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
903
904* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
905 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
906
907* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
908 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
909 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
910 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
911 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
912 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
913 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
914 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
915
916* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
917 synced with the kernel:
918
919 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
920 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
921
922 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
923 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
924 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
925
926 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
927 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
928
929Changes to build and runtime requirements:
930
931* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
932 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
933 x86-32 and x86-64.)
934
7e368000 935* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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938 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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940 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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941 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
942 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
943 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 944 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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947
e14a2772 948* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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949 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
950
951* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
952 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
953
954* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
955 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
956 (CVE-2010-3192).
957
958* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
959 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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961The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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963 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
964 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
965 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
966 fields
967 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
968 (CVE-2010-3192)
969 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
970 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
971 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
972 ld.bfd is available
973 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
974 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
975 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
976 x86 and other generic code
977 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
978 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
979 incorrect
980 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
981 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
982 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
983 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
984 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
985 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
986 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
987 resolver
988 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
989 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
990 order of 0D36 and 0D37
991 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
992 chillu characters
993 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
994 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
995 receiving data
996 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
997 whitespace
998 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
999 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1000 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1001 for Peru
1002 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1003 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1004 failures consistently
1005 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1006 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1007 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1008 frame-pointer on i386
1009 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1010 register
1011 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1012 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1013 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1014 generic c code is used
1015 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1016 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1017 around 4000
1018 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1019 (CVE-2017-12133)
1020 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1021 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1022 with -lieee
1023 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1024 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1025 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1026 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1027 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1028 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1029 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1030 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1031 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1032 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1033 remove()
1034 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1035 checked for errors.
1036 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1037 new posix_spawn implementation
1038 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1039 leads to lower CPU frequency
1040 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1041 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1042 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1043 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1044 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1045 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1046 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1047 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1048 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1049 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1050 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1051 not support gethostbyname4_r
1052 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1053 switching
1054 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1055 arenas
1056 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1057 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1058 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1059 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1060 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1061 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1062 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1063 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1064 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1065 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1066 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1067 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1068 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1069 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1070 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1071 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1072 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1073 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1074 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1075 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1076 retry value
1077 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1078 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1079 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1080 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1081 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1082 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1083 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1084 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1085 [21537] libc:
1086 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1087 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1088 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1089 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1090 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1091 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1092 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1093 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1094 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1095 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1096 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1097 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1098 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1099 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1100 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1101 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1102 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1103 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1104 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1105 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1106 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1107 issue on x86-64
1108 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1109 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1110 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1111 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1112 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1113 construction
1114 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1115 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1116 between_2_3
1117 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1118 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1119 conditions
1120 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1121 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1122 Hindi Locale
1123 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1124 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1125 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1126 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1127 locale
1128 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1129 leading to relocation crash
1130 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1131 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1132 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1133 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1134 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1135 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1136 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1137 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1138 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1139 locale
1140 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1141 locale
1142 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1143 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1144 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1145 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1146 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1147 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1148 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1149 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1150 strings
1151 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1152 protector=all
1153 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1154 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1155 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1156 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1157 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1158 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1159 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1160 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1161 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1162 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1163 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1164 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1165 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1166 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1167 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1168 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1169 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1170 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1171 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1172 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1173 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1174 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1175 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1176 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1177 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1178 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1179 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1180 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1181 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1182 with unicode 9.0
1183 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1184 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1185 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1186 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1187 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1192* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1193 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1194 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1195 Library.
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1197* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1198 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1199 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1201
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1202* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1203 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1204 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1205 the GNU C Library.
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1207* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1208 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1209 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1210 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1211 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1212 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1213 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1214 will not.
1215
1216 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1217 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1218 many years.
1219
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1221 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1222 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1223
1224 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1225 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1226 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1227 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1228 problem.
1229
ec94343f 1230* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1232 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1235 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1237 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1238 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1239 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1240 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1241 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1242 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1243 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1244 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1245 WINT_WIDTH.
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1248
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1250
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1251 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1252 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1253 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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1256 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1257
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1258 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1259 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1260
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1262
29cb9293 1263 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1265 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1266 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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1269
eb3c12c7 1270 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1271 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1274 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1275
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1276* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1277 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1278 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1279
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1280* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1281 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1282 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1283 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1284 effects of the memory clear).
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1286* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1287 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1288 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1289 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
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1291* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1292 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1293 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1294 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1295 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1296 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1299 have been added.
1300
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1301* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1302 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1303 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1304 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1305 as large as several megabytes.
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1308 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1309 been removed.
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1311* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1312 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1313 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1314 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1315 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1316 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1317 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1318
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1319* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1320 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1321 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1322 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1323
099191b1 1324* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1325 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1326 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1327 Internet.
1328
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1329* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1330 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1331 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 1332
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1333* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1334 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1335 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1336 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1337
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1338* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1339 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1340 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1341 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1342 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1343
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1344* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1345 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1346 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1347 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1348 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1349
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1350* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1351 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1352 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1353 did not reflect that.
1354
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1355* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1356 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1357 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1358 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1359 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1360 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1361 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1362 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1363
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1364* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1365 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1366 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1367 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1368
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1369* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1370 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1371 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1372 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1373
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1374* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1375 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1376 guarantees.
1377
1378* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1379 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1380 make state changes.
1381
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1382Security related changes:
1383
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1385 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1386 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1387 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1388 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1390* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1391 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1392 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1393 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1394 (CVE-2015-5180)
1395
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1396The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1397
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1398 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1399 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1400 protector-all
1401 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1402 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1403 before it started waiting
1404 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1405 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1406 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1407 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1408 wrong type
1409 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1410 library linked with pthread
1411 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1412 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1413 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1414 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1415 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1416 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1417 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1418 when it shouldnt
1419 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1420 not
1421 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1422 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1423 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1424 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1425 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1426 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1427 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1428 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1429 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1430 termination
1431 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1432 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1433 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1434 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1435 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1436 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1437 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1438 causes a segmentation fault
1439 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1440 linking
1441 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1442 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1443 uninitialized GOT
1444 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1445 versions
1446 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1447 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1448 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1449 is always true.
1450 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1451 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1452 modes
1453 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1454 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1455 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1456 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1457 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1458 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1459 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1460 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1461 libpthread.a
1462 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1463 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1464 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1465 _res_hconf
1466 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1467 information.
1468 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1469 penalty
1470 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1471 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1472 cause transition penalty
1473 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1474 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1475 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1476 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1477 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1478 mcount.oS)
1479 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1480 Checking
1481 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1482 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1483 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1484 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1485 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1486 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1487 multi-arch
1488 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1489 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1490 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1491 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1492 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1493 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1494 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1495 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1496 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1497 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1498 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1499 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1500 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1501 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1502 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1503 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1504 glibc
1505 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1506 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1507 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1508 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1509 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1510 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1511 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1512 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1513 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1514 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1515 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1516 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1517 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1518 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1519 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1520 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1521 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1522 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1523 RES_USE_INET6
1524 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1525 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1526 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1527 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1528 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1529 wrong condition
1530 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1531 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1532 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1533 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1534 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1535 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1536 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1537 clang
1538 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1539 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1540 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1541 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1542 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1543\f
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1544Version 2.24
1545
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1546* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1547 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1548 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1549 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1550 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1551 architectures.
1552
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1553* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1554 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1555 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1556
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1557* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1558 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1559
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1560* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1561 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1562 instead of “union wait”.
1563
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1564* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1565 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1566 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1567 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1568 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1569 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1570 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1571
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1572* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1573 API.
1574
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1575* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1576 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1577 drop it.
6a54bcda 1578
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1579* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1580 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1581 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1582 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1583 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1584 extensions.
1585
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1586Security related changes:
1587
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1588* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1589 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1590 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1591
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1592* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1593 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1594 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1595 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1596
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1597* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1598 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1599 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1600
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1601* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1602 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1603 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1604
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1605* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1606 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1607 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1608 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1609
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1610The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1611
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1612 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1613 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1614 of MS-DOS.
1615 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1616 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1617 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1618 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1619 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1620 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1621 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1622 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1623 CLDR data
1624 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1625 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1626 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1627 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1628 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1629 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1630 romanisation
1631 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1632 and +/-
1633 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1634 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1635 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1636 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1637 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1638 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1639 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1640 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1641 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1642 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1643 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1644 all locales
1645 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1646 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1647 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1648 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1649 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1650 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1651 execute
1652 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1653 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1654 -Wsystem-headers
1655 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1656 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1657 Romanian locale data
1658 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1659 symbol
1660 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1661 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1662 language
1663 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1664 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1665 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1666 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1667 machine
1668 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1669 description
1670 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1671 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1672 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1673 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1674 when using RTLD_NEXT
1675 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1676 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1677 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1678 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1679 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1680 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1681 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1682 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1683 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1684 Excavator core
1685 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1686 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1687 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1688 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1689 double range
1690 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1691 part zero incorrect
1692 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1693 equality tests
1694 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1695 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1696 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1697 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1698 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1699 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1700 glibc-2.22
1701 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1702 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1703 'tst-numeric.c'
1704 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1705 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1706 low part
1707 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1708 result
1709 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1710 unaligned stack
1711 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1712 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1713 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1714 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1715 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1716 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1717 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1718 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1719 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1720 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1721 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1722 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1723 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1724 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1725 modes
1726 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1727 server addresses
1728 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1729 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1730 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1731 response to getaddrinfo
1732 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1733 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1734 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1735 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1736 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1737 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1738 sometimes incorrect
1739 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1740 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1741 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1742 record types
1743 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1744 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1745 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1746 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1747 (CVE-2016-3075)
1748 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1749 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1750 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1751 resolving symbols
1752 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1753 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1754 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1755 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1756 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1757 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1758 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1759 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1760 gethosts
1761 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1762 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1763 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1764 (CVE-2016-3706)
1765 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1766 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1767 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1768 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1769 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1770 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1771 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1772 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1773 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1774 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1775 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1776 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1777 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1778 executable
1779 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1780 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1781 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1782 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1783 XPG3
1784 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1785 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1786 (CVE-2016-4429)
1787 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1788 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1789 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1790 AS not supporting AVX512
1791 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1792 sNaN argument
1793 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1794 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1795 argument
1796 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1797 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1798 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1799 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1800 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1801 eax=0x80000001
1802 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1803 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1804 subnormals
1805 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1806 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1807 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1808 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1809 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1810 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1811 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1812 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1813 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1814 input
1815 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1816 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1817 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1818 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1819 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1820 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1821 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1822 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1823 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1824 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1825 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1826 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1827 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1828 double rounding
1829 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1830 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1831 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1832 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1833 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1834 (Only arm/linux)
1835 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1836 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1837 fallbacks
1838 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1839 "invalid" exceptions
1840 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1841 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1842 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1843 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1844 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1845 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1846 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1847 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1848 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1850Version 2.23
1851
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1852* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1853 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1854 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1855 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1856 89, 16061, and 18568.
1857
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1858* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1859 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1860 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1861 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1862 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1863 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1864 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1865
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1866* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1867 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1868 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1869
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1870* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1871 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1872 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1873 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1874 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1875 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1876 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1877
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1878* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1879 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1880 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1881 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1882 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1883 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1884 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1885 Ericsson.)
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1887* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1888 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1889 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1890 independent of the GNU C Library.
1891
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1892* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1893 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1895* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1896 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1897 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1898 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1899 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1900 Linux kernel.
1901
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1902* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1903 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1905* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1906 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1907 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1908 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1909 defining their own copy.
1910
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1911* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1912 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1913 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1915Security related changes:
1916
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1917* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1918 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1919
1920* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1921 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1922 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1923 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1924 (CVE-2015-8777)
1925
1926* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1927 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1928
1929* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1930 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1931
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1932* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1933 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1934 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1936* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1937 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1938 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1939 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1940 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1941 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1942 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1943 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1944 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1945 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1946 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1947 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1948 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1949
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1952 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1953 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1954 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1955 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1956 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1957 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1958 use `mkstemp'
1959 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1960 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1961 overflow/underflow errors
1962 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1963 overflow/underflow
1964 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1965 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1966 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1967 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1968 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1969 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1970 are not contiguous
1971 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1972 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1973 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1974 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1975 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1976 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1977 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1978 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1979 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1980 all exceptions
1981 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1982 arguments
1983 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1984 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1985 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1986 should include
1987 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1988 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1989 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1990 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1991 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1992 GNU/Linux
1993 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1994 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1995 arguments
1996 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1997 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1998 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1999 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2000 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2001 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2002 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2003 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2004 rounding results
2005 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2006 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2007 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2008 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2009 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2010 fails
2011 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2012 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2013 block boundary
2014 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2015 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2016 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2017 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2018 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2019 4.7?
2020 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2021 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2022 (related to lock elision)
2023 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2024 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2025 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2026 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2027 (CVE-2015-8779)
2028 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2029 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2030 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2031 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2032 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2033 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2034 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2035 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2036 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2037 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2038 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2039 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2040 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2041 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2042 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2043 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2044 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2045 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2046 contains a vector instruction exception.
2047 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2048 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2049 locales
2050 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2051 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2052 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2053 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2054 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2055 missing break ?
2056 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2057 32bit processes
2058 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2059 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2060 infinity
2061 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2062 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2063 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2064 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2065 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2066 be forced unloaded
2067 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2068 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2069 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2070 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2071 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2072 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2073 statically too large
2074 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2075 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2076 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2077 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2078 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2079 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2080 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2081 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2082 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2083 FUTEX_SHARED
2084 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2085 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2086 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2087 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2088 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2089 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2090 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2091 opendir()
2092 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2093 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2094 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2095 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2096 signgam
2097 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2098 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2099 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2100 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2101 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2102 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2103 dependencies
2104 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2105 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2106 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2107 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2108 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2109 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2110 (CVE-2015-8776)
2111 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2112 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2113 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2114 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2115 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2116 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2117 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2118 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2119 contention
2120 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2121 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2122 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2123 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2124 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2125 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2126 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2127 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2128 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2129 rounding modes
2130 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2131 ILP32
2132 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2133 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2134 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2135 threshold
2136 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2137 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2138 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2139 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2140 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2141 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2142 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2143 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2144 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2145 pthread_setaffinity_np
2146 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2147 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2148 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2149 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2150 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2151 prelink
2152 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2153 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2154 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2155 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2156 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2157 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2158 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2159 bits/mathcalls.h
2160 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2161 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2162 for C99-based standards
2163 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2164 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2165 math-only
2166 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2167 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2168 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2169 disabled
2170 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2171 "inexact" exceptions
2172 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2173 arguments
2174 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2175 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2176 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2177 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2178 rules
2179 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2180 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2181 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2182 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2183 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2184 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2185 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2186 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2187 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2188 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2189 from 32bit
2190 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2191 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2192 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2193 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2194 subnormals
2195 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2196 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2197 error on 32-bit architectures
2198 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2199 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2200 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2201 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2202 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2203 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2204 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2205 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2206 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2207 -Os
2208 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2209 CPU's.
2210 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2211 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2212 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2213 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2214 architectures
2215 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2217Version 2.22
2218
2219* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2220
3df5cd98 2221 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2222 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2223 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2224 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2225 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2226 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2227 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2228 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2229 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2230 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2231 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2232 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2233 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2234 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2235 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2236 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2237 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2238 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
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2239 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2240 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2241
f7fba805
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2242* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2243 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2244
2959eda9
AS
2245* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2246 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2247 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2248 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2249 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2250 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2251
42261ad7
FW
2252* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2253 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2254 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2255 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2256 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2257
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2258* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2259 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2260 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2261
4a4839c9
AO
2262* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2263 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2264 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2265 17998.
2266
b13b96ca
AS
2267* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2268 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2269 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2270
2271* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2272 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2273 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2274 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2275 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2276 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2277 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2278 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2279
2280* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2281 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2282 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2283 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2284
2285* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2286 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2287 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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RM
2288
2289* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2290 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2291
2292* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2293 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2294 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2295
a03ba363 2296 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2297 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2298 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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2300Version 2.21
2301
2302* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2303
042e1521 2304 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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2305 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2306 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2307 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2308 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2309 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2310 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2311 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2312 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2313 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2314 17892.
2315
46d54873
FW
2316* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2317 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2318 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2319 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2320 intended.
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CD
2321
2322* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2323 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2324 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2325 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2326 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2327 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2328
522e6ee3
CLT
2329* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2330
d3b00f46
AZ
2331* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2332 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2333 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2334
8d2c0a59
AZ
2335* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2336 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2337 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2338 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2339 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2340 effects being visible outside transactions.
2341
dc400d7b
RE
2342* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2343 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2344
0f9dfe04
L
2345* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2346
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CD
2347* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2348 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2349 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2350 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2351 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2352
a5357b7c
JL
2353* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2354 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2355
e54db0ea
AM
2356* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2357 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2358 format.
11e3417a 2359
4863355a
JM
2360* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2361 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2362 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2363
a4ecc9eb
JM
2364* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2365 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2366
0d560bbf 2367* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2368
2369* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2370 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2371 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2372 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2373
2374* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2375 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2376
2377* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2378 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2379 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2380 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2381 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2382 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2383 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2384 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2385 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2386 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2387 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2388 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2389 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2390
2391 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2392 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2393 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2394 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2395 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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d5b396c1
AM
2397Version 2.20
2398
2399* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2400
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2401 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2402 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2403 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2404 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2405 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2406 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2407 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2408 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2409 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2410 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2411 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2412 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2413 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2414 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2415 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2416
95ee7fb1
SL
2417* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2418 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2419 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2420 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2421 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2422 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2423 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2424 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2425 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2426 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2427
0961f7e1
JL
2428* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2429 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2430 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2431 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2432 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2433
f940b965
RE
2434* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2435
d0f5b3f8
JM
2436* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2437 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2438
d6fe5e58
JM
2439* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2440 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2441 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2442 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2443 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2444 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2445
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JM
2446* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2447 from ports.
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JM
2448
2449* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2450 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2451 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2452 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2453 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2454 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2455 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2456
2457* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2458
2459* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2460 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2461 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2462 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2463 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2464 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2465 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2466
2467* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2468 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2469 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2470 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2471 invocation.
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JM
2472
2473* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2474 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2475 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2476
2477* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2478 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2479 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2480 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2481
2482* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2483 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2484 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2485 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2486 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2487 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2488 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2489 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2490
2491* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2492 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2493 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2494 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2495 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2496 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2497 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2498 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2499 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2500
2501* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2502 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2503 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2504 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2505 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2506 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2507
2508* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2509 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2510 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2511 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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DM
2512\f
2513Version 2.19
2514
2515* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2516
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JM
2517 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2518 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2519 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2520 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2521 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2522 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2523 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2524 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2525 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2526 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2527 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2528 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2529 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2530 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2531 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2532 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2533 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2534 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2535
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CD
2536* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2537 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2538
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CD
2539* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2540 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2541 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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2542 extension which uses __block.
2543
303e567a
SP
2544* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2545 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2546 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2547 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2548 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2549
141f3a77
SP
2550* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2551 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2552 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2553 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2554 if malloc fails.
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2555
2556* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2557 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2558 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2559 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2560 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2561
2562* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2563 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2564 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2565
ba0d798c
WN
2566* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2567 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2568 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2569 #15856, #15857).
2570
7cbcdb36
SP
2571* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2572 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2573
82bab04b 2574* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2575 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2576
c5f840fd
MB
2577* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2578
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2579* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2580 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2581
3e181dda 2582* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2583
8a05c252
CL
2584* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2585
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JM
2586* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2587 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2588 for which the C library was built.
2589
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2590* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2591 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2592 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2593 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2594 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2595 in the following circumstances:
2596
2597 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2598
2599 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2600 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2601
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2602* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2603 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2604
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2605* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2606 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2607
ffb89e53
AO
2608* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2609
5d29ccce
SP
2610* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2611 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2612
8b7d57cd 2613* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2614
2615* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2616
fd712ef3 2617* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2618
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JM
2619* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2620 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2621 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2622 disable some of those declarations.
2623
7011c262 2624* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2625 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2626 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2627
2628* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2629 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2630
2631* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2632 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2633 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2634 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2635 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2636 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2637 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2638 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2639 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2640 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2641 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2642 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2643 require recompilation.
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2644\f
2645Version 2.18
2646
2647* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2648
17db6e8d 2649 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2650 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2651 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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2652 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2653 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2654 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2655 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2656 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2657 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2658 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2659 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2660 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2661 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2662 15755, 15759.
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2663
2664* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2665 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2666 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2667 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2668 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2669 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2670
5b535ac4
AS
2671* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2672 #15078).
2673
1cef1b19
AS
2674* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2675 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2676
55e4107b
SP
2677* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2678 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2679 destructor calls to glibc.
2680
e5c74c63
SP
2681* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2682 output.
2683
2684* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2685 non-x86 architectures.
2686
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2687* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2688
2689* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2690
2691* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2692 Richard Henderson.
2693
2694* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2695
2696* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2697 Richard Henderson.
2698
2699* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2700 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2701
8cfdb7e0
SP
2702* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2703
57267616
TS
2704* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2705 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2706
c204ab28
SP
2707* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2708 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2709
0748546f
PE
2710* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2711 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2712 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2713
61dd6208
SP
2714* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2715 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2716 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
2717
2718* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2719 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2720 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2721 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2722 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
2723
2724* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2725 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2726
2727* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2728\f
2729Version 2.17
2730
2731* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2732
80ceeaee 2733 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
2734 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2735 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2736 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2737 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2738 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2739 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2740 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2741 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2742 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2743 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2744 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2745 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2746 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2747 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2748
95b4f1b6
SE
2749* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2750
14bc93a9
JL
2751* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2752 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2753
b54eb3cb
JM
2754* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2755 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2756
7e2bd01f
MS
2757* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2758
08f43f9b
AK
2759* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2760 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2761 zEnterprise z196.
2762 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2763
84b3fd84
FW
2764* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2765 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2766 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2767
815e6fa3
GB
2768* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2769 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2770
400726de
MK
2771* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2772 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2773
7aab07e4 2774* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2775 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2776
15d0da8c
WS
2777* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2778 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2779
3cc3ef96
RM
2780* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2781 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
2782 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2783 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2784
b54eb3cb
JM
2785* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2786 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2787
85429b1a 2788* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2789 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
2790 default.
2791
b54eb3cb
JM
2792* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2793 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2794 information in --help and --version output.
2795
050af9c4
SP
2796* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2797 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2798 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2799
89a3ad0b
AO
2800* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2801 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2802 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2803 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2804 when the mode is enabled.
2805
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RM
2806* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2807 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2808 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2809 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2810 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2811 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2812 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2813
d9286582
NK
2814* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2815 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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UD
2816\f
2817Version 2.16
2818
2819* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2820
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JM
2821 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2822 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2823 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2824 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2825 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2826 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2827 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2828 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2829 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2830 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2831 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2832 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2833 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2834 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2835 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2836 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2837 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2838 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2839 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2840 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2841 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2842 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2843 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2844
a086b4d6
L
2845* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2846 configuring glibc with:
2847 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2848 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2849 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2850
380d7e87
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2851* ISO C11 support:
2852
2853 + define static_assert
2854
2855 + do not declare gets
2856
2857 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2858
2859 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2860 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2861 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2862 implementation.
8d44e150 2863
74033a25 2864 + timespec_get added
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2865
2866 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2867
ac097f5c
UD
2868 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2869
16dd419d
UD
2870 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2871
9dc4e1fb 2872* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
2873
2874* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
2875
2876* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2878
2879* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2881
2882* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2883 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2884 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2885 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2886 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2887
21708942 2888* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2889 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2890 before 2.6.
83678f76 2891
edb00e4d
RH
2892* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2893 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2894 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2895
83678f76 2896* New locales: mag_IN
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2897
2898* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2899 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2900 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2901 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2902 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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2903
2904* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2905
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2906* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2907 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
2908
2909* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2910
2911* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2912 without a previously built glibc.
2913
2914* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2915 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2916
2917* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2918 now supported for ARM processors.
2919
2920* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2921 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2922 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2923
2924* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2925
2926* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2927 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2928 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2929 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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2930
2931* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2932 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2933 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2934 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2935
2936* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2937 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2938 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2939 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2940 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2941
2942* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2943 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2944 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2945 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2946\f
e80fab37 2947Version 2.15
11988f8f 2948
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2949* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2950
aebae053
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2951 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2952 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2953 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2954 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2955 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2956 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2957 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2958
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2959* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2960 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
2961
2962* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2963 and support for initgroups lookups.
2964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
2965
2966* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2967 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
2968
2969* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2970 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2971
fc2ee42a
LD
2972* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2973 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2974 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2975
d42964a0 2976* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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2978
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2980 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2981 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2982
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2983* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2984 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2985
2986* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2989* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2990 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2992* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2993 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2995* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2996 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2997
2998* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3001* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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3002
3003* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3004 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3006* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3007 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 3009* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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3014
553149f6 3015 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3016 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3017 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3018 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3020 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3021 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3022 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3023 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3024 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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3027 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3028 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3029 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3030
3031 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3032 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3033 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3034 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3035
c6489db3 3036* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3037 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3038
72d1dddb 3039* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3040 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3042* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3044* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3047* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3048 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3049 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3050 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3053
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3055
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3056 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3057 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3058 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3059 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3060 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3061
10b3bedc 3062* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3063
ac2b484c 3064* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3065
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3066* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3067 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3068 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3070Version 2.12
3071
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3073
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3074 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3075 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3076 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3077 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3078 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3079 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3080 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3081 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3083* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3084
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3085* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3086
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3087* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3088
3089* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3090 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3091 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3092
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3093* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3094 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3095 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3096 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3098
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3102
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3103* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3104
3105 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3106 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3107 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3108 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3109 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3110 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3111
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3112* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3113 mkostemps64
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3114 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3115
24ab9c76 3116* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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3117 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3118
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3119* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3120 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3121
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3122* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3123
0122f28e 3124* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3125 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3126 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3127 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3128
9d36a6c4 3129 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3130 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3131
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3132* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3133 strstr, strcasestr.
3134 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3135
3136* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3137 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3138
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3139* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3140 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3141
3142* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3143 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3144
3145* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3146 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3147 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3148 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3149 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3150 necessity is every process again.
3151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3152
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3153* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3154 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3155
3156* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3157 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3158
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3159* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3160 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3161 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3162
9dd5b8a1 3163* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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3165Version 2.10
3166
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3167* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3168
3169 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3170 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3171 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3172 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3173 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3174
bb066545 3175* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3176 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3177
425ce2ed 3178* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3179 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3180
1fdd89a7 3181* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3182 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 3183
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3184* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3185 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3186
1f04d005 3187* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3188 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3189
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3190* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3191 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3192
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3193* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3194 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3195
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3196* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3197 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198
3199* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3200 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3201 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3202
735be400 3203* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3204
84aa52d7 3205* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3207
3208* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3209 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3210 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3211
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3212* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3213 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3214
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3215* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3216 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3217 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3218 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3219 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3220 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3222Version 2.9
3223
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3224* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3225
3226 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3227 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3228 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3229 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3230 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3231
b29899ae 3232* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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3233 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3234
3235* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3236 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3237
3238* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3240
3241* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3242 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3243 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3244
3245* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3246 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 3247
8ec2550e 3248* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3249
3250* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3251 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 3252
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3253* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3254 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3255 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3256 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3257
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3258* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3259 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3261* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3262 Sinhala)
48b22986 3263 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3264
3265* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3267Version 2.8
3268
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3269* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3270
3271 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3272 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3273 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3274 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3275 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3276 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3277 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3278
e038616f 3279* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3280
77751669 3281* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3282
3283* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3284 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3285
3286* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3287
3288* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3289 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3290
3291* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3292 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3293
3294* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3295 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3296 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3297
3298* Faster memset for x86-64.
3299 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3300
3301* Faster memcpy on x86.
3302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3303
3304* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3307* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3308 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3310Version 2.7
3311
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3312* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3313
3314 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3315 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3316 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3317 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3318 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3319
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3320* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3321 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3322
3323* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3324
3325* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3326 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3327 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3328
3329* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3330 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3331
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3334
3335* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3336
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3337* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3338 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3339
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3340* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3341 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3342
3343* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3344 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3345
3346* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3347
3348* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3351* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3352 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3353 yo_NG.
3354
3355+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3356 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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11bf311e 3358Version 2.6
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3361
3362 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3363 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3364 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3365 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3366 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3367 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3368 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3369 4702, 4858
3370
bce20b9a 3371* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3374
b21fa963 3375* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3377Version 2.5
3378
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3379* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3380
3381 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3382 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3383 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3384 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3385 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3386 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3387 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3388 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3389 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3390
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3393 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3395* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3396 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3397
871b9158 3398* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3400* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3402* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3403 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3404 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3405 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3407
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3409 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3410 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3411 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3412
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3413* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3414 Ulrich Drepper.
3415
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3416* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3417
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3418* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3419 Ulrich Drepper.
3420
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3421* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3422
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3423* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3424 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3427
3428* More overflow detection functions.
3429
3430* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3431 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3433 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3434 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3435 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3436 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3437 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3438 by Masahide Washizawa.
3439
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3440* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3441 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3443* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3444 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3445 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3446 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3448* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3449 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3450
3451* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3452
3453* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3454 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3455 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3456
3457* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3458 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3459
3460* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3461 for compatibility with some other systems.
3462
3463* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3465Version 2.3.6
3466
3467* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3468
3469 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3470 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3471 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3472 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3473 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3474 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3475
3476 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3477
3478* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3479
3480* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3482Version 2.3.5
3483
3484* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3485
3486 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3487 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3488 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3489 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3490
3491 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3494
3495* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3498* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3499 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3501
3502* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3503 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3504
0325dd20 3505* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3506 efficiently.
3507 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3508
3509* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3510 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3511 handling data.
3512
3513* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3514 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3515 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3517* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3518 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3519
3520* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3521 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3522 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3523 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3524
3525* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3526 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3527 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3528 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3529
3530* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3531 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3532 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3533 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3534 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3536Version 2.3.3
3537
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3538* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3539 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3540
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3541* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3542 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3543
69be6aaf 3544* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3545 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3546
3547* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3550* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3551 by Roland McGrath.
3552
c5af724c 3553* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3554 and Ulrich Drepper.
3555
3556* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3557 RFC 3484.
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3559Version 2.3.2
3560
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3561* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3562 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3563 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3564 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3565 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3566 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3567 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3568 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3569 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3570
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3571* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3572 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3573 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3574
3575* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3576
3577* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3578 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3580* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3581 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3582
52a16e58 3583* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3585* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3586 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3587
3588* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3589 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3590 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3591 of weak definition in ld.so.
3592
3593* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3594 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3595
3596* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3597 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3601* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3602 charsets.
3603
3604* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3605 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3606
bb0ec5bd 3607* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3608 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3610* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3611 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3612
bb0ec5bd 3613* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3614 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3615 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3617* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3618 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3619
bb0ec5bd 3620* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3621 implementation of regex.
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3622
3623* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3624 Unicode 3.2.
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3626* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3627 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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3629* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3630 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3631 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3632
3633* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3634 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3635
3636* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3637 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3638 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3639
3640* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3641 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3643* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3644 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3645 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3647* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3649Version 2.2.6
3650
3651* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3652 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3653
3654* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3655 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3658
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3659* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3660 128-bit long double format.
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3662* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3663 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3664
ad2e4f18 3665* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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3667* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3668
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3669* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3670 as well.
3671
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3672* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3673 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3675* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3677Version 2.2.4
3678
2995f70e 3679* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3680 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3681
3682* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3683 support Unicode 3.1.
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3684
3685* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3686 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3687
69d5f925 3688* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3689
69d5f925 3690* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3691 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3692 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3693
3694* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3695 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3696
3697* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3698 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3700* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3702Version 2.2.3
3703
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3705 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3706 in float, double, and long double format.
3707
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3709 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3710 128-bit long double format.
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3712* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3713 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3714 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3715 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
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3717* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3718 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3719 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3721* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3722 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3724* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3725 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3727* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3728 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3729 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3730
3731* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3732 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3734* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3735 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3737* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3740
464d97ec 3741* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3742 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3743 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3744 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3745 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3746 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3747 other headers.
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3749* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3750 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3751
3752* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3753 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3754 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3755 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3756
3757* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3758 locales. While
3759
3760 locale -a
3761
3762 only lists the names of the supported locales
3763
3764 locale -a --verbose
3765
3766 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3767 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3770
3771* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3772 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3773 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3774 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3775 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3776
3777 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3778
3779 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3780
3781 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3783* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3784 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3785 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3787* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3788 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3789
3790* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3791 changed from the default "C" locale.
3792
3793* The usual bug fixes.
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3796
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3797* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3798 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3799 is in progress.
3800
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3801* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3802
793bd4d9 3803* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3805 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3806 obviously requires a database library being available.
3807
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3808* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3809
abbffdf9 3810* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3812* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3813 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3814
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3815* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3816
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3817* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3818 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3819 and Mark Kettenis.
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3820
3821 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3822 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3823 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3824
a00c3ca9 3825 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3826 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3827
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3828* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3829 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3830 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3831
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3832* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3833 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3834 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3836
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3837 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3838 structures for the wide character tables.
3839
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3840* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3841
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3842* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3843
3844* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3845
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3846* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3847 and Yutaka Niibe.
3848
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3849* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3850
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3851* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3852
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3853* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3854
3855* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3856
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3857* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3858
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3860 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3861 implemented for Linux.
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3863* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3864 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3865 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3866 versions.
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3868* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3869 Masahide Washizawa.
3870
8f3f1e09 3871* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3873Version 2.1.3
3874
3875* bug fixes
3876
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3878Version 2.1.2
3879
3880* bug fixes
3881
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3883Version 2.1.1
3884
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3885* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3886
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3887* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3888
407d26b7 3889* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3890
3891* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3892
407d26b7 3893* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3894
407d26b7 3895* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3896
3897* Update timezone data files.
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3899* lots of charmaps corrections
3900
3901* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3902
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3904Version 2.1
3905
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3906* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3907 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3908 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3909 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3910 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3911 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3912
c84142e8 3913* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3914 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3915
1fb05e3d 3916* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3917 symbol level.
3918
3919* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3920 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3921
cbdee279 3922* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3923
3924* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3925 numbers.
377a515b 3926
cbdee279 3927* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3928
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3929* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3930 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3931
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3932* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3933 library.
3934
e61abf83 3935* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3936 functions from ISO C 9X.
3937
3938* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3939 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3940
a5a0310d 3941* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3942
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3943* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3944
3945* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3946
440d13e2 3947* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3948
3949* Optimized string functions have been added.
3950
3951* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3952
3953* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3955* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3956 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3957
3958 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3959 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3960
0dee6738 3961 user system wall
48244d09 3962
0dee6738 3963 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3964
0dee6738 3965 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3966
0dee6738 3967 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3969 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3970
3971 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3972
3973 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3975 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3976 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3977 horribly slow.
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3979 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3980 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3982* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3984* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3985
3986* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3987 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3988
3989* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3991* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3992 Bambrough.
3993
3994* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3995 latest draft standards.
3996
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3998
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4000~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4001addseverity NEW: Unix98
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4003argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4004argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4005argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4006argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4007argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4008argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4009argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4010argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4011argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4012argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4013authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4014authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4015authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4016backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4017backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4018backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4019cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4020cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4021cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4022cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4023cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4024cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4025capget NEW: kernel
4026capset NEW: kernel
4027carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4028cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4029cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4030casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4031casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4032casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4033casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4034casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4035casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4036catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4037catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4038catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4039catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4040catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4041catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4042cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4043ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4044ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4045ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4046ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4047ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4048ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4049cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4050cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4051cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4052cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4053cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4054cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4055clearerr_locked REMOVED
4056clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4057clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4058clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4059clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4060clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4061clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4062clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4063conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4064conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4065conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4066cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4067cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4068cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4069cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4070cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4071cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4072creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4073crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4074creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4075creat64 NEW: LFS
4076csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4077csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4078csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4079csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4080csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4081csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4082csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4083csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4084csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4085ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4086ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4087ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4088ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4089ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4090ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4091des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4092ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4093endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4094exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4095exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4096exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4097exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4098exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4099exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4100fattach NEW: STREAMS
4101fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4102fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4103fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4104fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4105feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4106fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4107fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4108fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4109feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4110feof_locked REMOVED
4111feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4112ferror_locked REMOVED
4113fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4114fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4115fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4116fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4117feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4118fflush_locked REMOVED
4119ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4120ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4121fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4122fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4123fileno_locked REMOVED
4124fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4125fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4126fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4127fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4128fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4129fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4130fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4131fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4132fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4133fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4134fopen64 NEW: LFS
4135fputc_locked REMOVED
4136fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4137fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4138freopen64 NEW: LFS
4139fseeko NEW: Unix98
4140fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4141fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4142fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4143fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4144ftello NEW: Unix98
4145ftello64 NEW: LFS
4146ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4147ftw64 NEW: LFS
4148fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4149gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4150gamma_r REMOVED
4151gammaf_r REMOVED
4152gammal_r REMOVED
4153getchar_locked REMOVED
4154getdate NEW: Unix98
4155getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4156getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4157getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4158getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4159getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4160getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4161getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4162getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4163getutxent NEW: Unix98
4164getutxid NEW: Unix98
4165getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4166glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4167globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4168gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4169gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4170grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4171host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4172iconv NEW: iconv
4173iconv_close NEW: iconv
4174iconv_open NEW: iconv
4175if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4176if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4177if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4178if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4179in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4180in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4181inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4182isastream NEW: STREAMS
4183iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4184key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4185key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4186key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4187key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4188key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4189key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4190key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4191key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4192key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4193llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4194llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4195llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4196llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4197llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4198llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4199log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4200log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4201log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4202lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4203lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4204lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4205lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4206lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4207lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4208lseek64 NEW: LFS
4209makecontext NEW: Unix98
4210mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4211mmap64 NEW: LFS
4212moncontrol REMOVED
4213modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4214nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4215nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4216nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4217nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4218nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4219nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4220netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4221netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4222nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4223nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4224nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4225nftw NEW: Unix98
4226nftw64 NEW: LFS
4227open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4228passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4229pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4230pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4231pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4232pread NEW: Unix98
4233pread64 NEW: LFS
4234printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4235printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4236profil_counter REMOVED
4237pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4238pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4239ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4240ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4241putc_locked REMOVED
4242putchar_locked REMOVED
4243putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4244putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4245putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4246pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4247pwrite NEW: Unix98
4248pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4249readdir64 NEW: LFS
4250readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4251remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4252remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4253remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4254round NEW: ISO C 9x
4255roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4256roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4257rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4258scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4259scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4260scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4261scandir64 NEW: LFS
4262sendfile NEW: kernel
4263setcontext NEW: Unix98
4264setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4265setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4266sighold NEW: Unix98
4267sigignore NEW: Unix98
4268sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4269sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4270sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4271sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4272sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4273sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4274sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4275sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4276statfs64 NEW: LFS
4277statvfs NEW: Unix98
4278statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4279strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4280strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4281strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4282strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4283svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4284svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4285svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4286swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4287tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4288tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4289tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4290tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4291tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4292tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4293trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4294truncate64 NEW: LFS
4295truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4296truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4297umount2 NEW: kernel
4298unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4299updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4300user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4301utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4302versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4303versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4304waitid NEW: Unix98
4305wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4306wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4307wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4308wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4309wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4310wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4311wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4312wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4313wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4314wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4315write_profiling REMOVED
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4317xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4318xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4319xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4320xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4321xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4322xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4323xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4324xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4325xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4326xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4327xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4328xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4329xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4330xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4333Version 2.0.6
4334
4335* more bug fixes
4336
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4338Version 2.0.5
4339
4340* more bug fixes
4341
4342* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4343
4344* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4345
4346* rewrite of cbrt function
4347
4348* update of timezone data
4349\f
4350Version 2.0.4
4351
4352* more bug fixes
4353\f
4354Version 2.0.3
4355
4356* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4357\f
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4358Version 2.0.2
4359
4360* more bug fixes
4361
4362* add atoll function
4363
4364* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4366* fix math functions
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4368Version 2.0.1
4369
4370* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4371
4372* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4373
4374* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4375 the ELF dynamic loader.
4376
4377* support for parallel builds is improved
4378\f
40a4b79f 4379Version 2.0
28f540f4 4380
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4381* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4382 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4383 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4384
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4385* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4386 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4387 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4388 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4389 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4390 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4391 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4392 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4393 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4394 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4395 files in the ELF format.
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4396
4397* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4398 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4399
4400* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4401 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4402 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4403 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4404 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4405 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4406 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4407 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4408 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4409 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4410 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4412* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4413 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4414 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4415 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4416 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4417
f7eac6eb 4418* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4419 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4420 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4421 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4422 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4423
4424* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4426* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4427 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4428 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4429 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4430 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4431 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4432 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4433 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4434 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4435
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4436* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4437 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4438 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4439
4440* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4441 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4442 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4443
4444* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4445 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4446 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4447 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4448
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4449* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4450 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4451 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4452
4453* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4454 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4455 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4456
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4457* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4458 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4459
f7eac6eb 4460* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4461 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4462 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4463 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4464
4465* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4466 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4467 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4468
71733723 4469* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4470 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4471 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4472 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4473 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4474 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4475 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4476 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4477
4478* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4479 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4480 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4481 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4482 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4483 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4484 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4485
4486* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4487 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4488 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4489 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4490 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4491 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4492
4493* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4494 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4495
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4496* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4497 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4498 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4500* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4501
4502* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4503 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4504 their use is discouraged.
4505
4506* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4507 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4509* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4510 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4511
4512* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4513 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4514
4515* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4516 see <dirent.h>.
4517
4518* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4519 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4520 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4521 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4522 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4523
4524* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4525 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4526 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4527 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4528
4529* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4530 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4531
4532* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4533 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4534 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4535 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4536 number generator.
4537
4538* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4539 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4540
4541* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4542 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4543
71733723 4544* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4545 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4546 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4547 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 4548
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4549* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4550
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4551* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4552 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4553 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4554
4555* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4556 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 4557
c709e372 4558* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4559 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4560 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4561 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4562
4563* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4564 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4565 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4566 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4567 programs already written to use it.)
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4568
4569* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4570 constants.
4571
4572* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4573 with 4.4 BSD.
4574
4575* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4576 a given effective group ID.
4577
4578* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4579 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4580 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4581 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4582
4583* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4584 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4585 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4586 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4587 doing the same thing.
4588
4589* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4590 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4591
4592* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4593 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4594
4595* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4596
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4597* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4598 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4599 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4600 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4601 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4602
4603* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4604 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4605
4606* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4607 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4608 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4609 function.
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4610
4611* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4612
4613* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4614 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4615 strings.
4616
4617* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4618 and writing the utmp file.
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4619
4620* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4621 Thorsten Kukuk.
4622
4623* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4624 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4625 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4626
4627* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4628 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4629
4630* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4631 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4632 specification.
4633
4634* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4635 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4636 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4637 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4638
4639* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4640 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4641 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4642
4643* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4644 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4645 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4646 expression matcher.
4647
4648* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4649 functionality.
4650
4651* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4652 by Ulrich Drepper.
4653
4654* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4655
4656* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4657 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4658 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4659\f
4660Version 1.09
4661
4662* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4663
4664* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4665 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4666
4667* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4668 want to put themselves in the background.
4669
4670* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4671 run without an operating system.
4672
4673* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4674 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4675
4676* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4677 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4678
4679* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4680
4681* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4682 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4683 have YP (aka NIS).
4684
4685* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4686 conventions.
4687
4688* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4689 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4690\f
4691Version 1.08
4692
4693* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4694 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4695 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4696
4697* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4698 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4699
4700* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4701 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4702
4703* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4704
4705* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4706
4707* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4708 compatibility.
4709
4710* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4711 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4712 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4713
4714* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4715
4716* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4717 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4718 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4719
4720* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4721 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4722 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4723 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4724 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4725 on a block).
4726
4727* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4728 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4729 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4730 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4731 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4732 cross-compiler.
4733
4734* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4735 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4736\f
4737Version 1.07
4738
4739* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4740 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4741
4742* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4743 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4744 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4745
4746* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4747 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4748 address of the last character written.
4749
4750* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4751 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4752
4753* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4754 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4755
4756* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4757 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4758 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4759 you dereference this pointer.
4760
4761* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4762 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4763
4764* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4765 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4766 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4767 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4768
4769* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4770 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4771 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4772 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4773\f
4774Version 1.06
4775
4776* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4777 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4778 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4779 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4780 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4781
4782* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4783
4784* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4785
4786* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4787 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4788
4789* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4790 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4791
4792* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4793 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4794
4795* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4796 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4797 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4798 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4799 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4800
4801* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4802 to the error code in `errno'.
4803
4804* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4805 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4806 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4807 malloc'd string.
4808
4809* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4810 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4811 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4812
4813* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4814 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4816Version 1.05
4817
4818* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4819 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4820 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4821
4822* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4823 characters.
4824
4825* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4826 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4827
4828* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4829\f
4830Version 1.04
4831
4832* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4833 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4834 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4835 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4836
4837* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4838 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4839 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4840
4841* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4842 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4843
4844* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4845 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4846 made itself into a shared library.
4847
4848* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4849 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4850
4851* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4852 with limited length.
4853
4854* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4855
4856* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4857
4858* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4859
4860* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4861 function for traversing a directory tree.
4862
4863* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4864 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4865 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4866 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4867
4868* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4869 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4870
4871* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4872
4873* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4874 things to your strings.
4875
4876* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4877
4878* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4879 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4880 supporting those systems.
4881
4882* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4883 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4884 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4885 configuration files.
4886
4887* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4888 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4889
4890* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4891 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4892 in <strings.h>.)
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4893
4894* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4895 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4896 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4897 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4898 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4899 required storage is not available.
4900
4901* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4902 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4903
4904* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4905 latest files released from Berkeley.
4906\f
4907----------------------------------------------------------------------
4908Copyright information:
4909
09533208 4910Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4911
4912 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4913 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4914 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4915 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4916
4917 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4918 of this document, or of portions of it,
4919 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4920 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4921\f
4922Local variables:
4923version-control: never
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