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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 2.29
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10Major new features:
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12* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
13 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
14 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
15 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
16 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
17 configured location.
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424c4f60 19* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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21* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
22 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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24* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
25 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
26 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
27 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
28 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
29 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
30 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
31 process actually does not use HTM).
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33* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np function has been added,
34 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a
35 different directory. This is a GNU extension and similar to the
36 Solaris function of the same name.
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38* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
39 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
40 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
41 incosistent mutex state after fork call in multithread environment.
42 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
43
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44Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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46* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
47 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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49* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
50 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
51 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
52 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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54* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
55 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
56 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
57 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
58 structures.
59
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60Changes to build and runtime requirements:
61
c6982f7e 62* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
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64Security related changes:
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66 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
67 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
68 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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70The following bugs are resolved with this release:
71
72 [The release manager will add the list generated by
73 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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76Version 2.28
77
78Major new features:
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80* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
81 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
82 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
83 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
84 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
85 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
86 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
87 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
88 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
89 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
90 archive or binary locales.
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92* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
93 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
94 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
95 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
96 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
97 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
98 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
99 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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100 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
101 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
102 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
103 validated for i686.
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105* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
106 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
107 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
108 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
109 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
110 field) to indicate such support is required.
111
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112* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
113 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
114 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
115
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116* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
117 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
118
119 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
120 fMxaddfNx functions.
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122 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
123 fMxsubfNx functions.
124
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125 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
126 fMxmulfNx functions.
127
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128 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
129 fMxdivfNx functions.
130
e607a352 131* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 132 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 133 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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134 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
135 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 137* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 138 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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140* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
141 patches.
142
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143* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
144 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
145 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
146 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
147 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
148 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
149 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
150 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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152* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
153 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
154 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
155 the fstatat64 function.
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157* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
158 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
159 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
160 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
161 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
162 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
163 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
164 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
165 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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167* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
168 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
169 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
170 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
171 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
172 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
173 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
174 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
175 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
176 results in a load failure now.
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178* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
179 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
180 <threads.h>:
181
182 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
183 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
184
185 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
186 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
187
188 - call_once for function call synchronization.
189
190 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
191 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
192
193 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
194
195 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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197Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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199* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
200 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
201 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
202
203* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
204 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
205 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
206 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
207 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
208 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
209
210* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
211 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
212 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
213 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
214 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
215 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
216 (Bug #1190.)
217
218* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
219 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
220 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
221 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
222 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
223 further explanation.
224
225 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
226 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
227 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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229* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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231* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
232 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
233 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
234
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235* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
236 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
237 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
238 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
239
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240* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
241 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
242 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
243 for this function instead.
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245* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
246 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
247 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
248
249* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
250 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
251 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
252 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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254* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
255 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
256 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
257 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
258 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
259
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260* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
261 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
262 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
263 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
264 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
265 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
266 such as libgcrypt.
267
268* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
269 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
270 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
271 enabled.
272
273* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
274 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
275 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
276
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277* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
278 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
279 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
280 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
281 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
282 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
283
284 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
285 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
286 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
287 behavior in a future release.
288
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289Changes to build and runtime requirements:
290
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293Security related changes:
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295 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
296 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
297 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
298 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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300 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
301 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
302
303 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
304 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
305 Izbyshev.
306
307 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
308 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
309 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
310
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311The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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313 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
314 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
315 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
316 when __WORDSIZE != 64
317 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
318 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
319 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
320 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
321 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
322 14651
323 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
324 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
325 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
326 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
327 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
328 conversion is given
329 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
330 date
331 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
332 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
333 scope with -O1 and higher
334 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
335 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
336 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
337 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
338 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
339 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
340 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
341 horrible machine code)
342 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
343 last constant.
344 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
345 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
346 symbols
347 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
348 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
349 defined
350 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
351 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
352 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
353 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
354 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
355 fpscr.c'
356 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
357 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
358 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
359 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
360 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
361 the base address
362 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
363 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
364 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
365 open_verify
366 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
367 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
368 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
369 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
370 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
371 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
372 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
373 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
374 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
375 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
376 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
377 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
378 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
379 dlopen
380 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
381 AT_SECURE=1
382 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
383 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
384 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
385 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
386 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
387 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
388 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
389 for Spanish with CLDR
390 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
391 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
392 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
393 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
394 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
395 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
396 es_BO
397 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
398 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
399 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
400 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
401 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
402 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
403 dlopen failures
404 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
405 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
406 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
407 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
408 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
409 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
410 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
411 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
412 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
413 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
414 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
415 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
416 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
417 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
418 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
419 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
420 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
421 makecontext
422 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
423 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
424 required
425 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
426 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
427 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
428 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
429 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
430 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
431 disabled
432 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
433 failure
434 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
435 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
436 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
437 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
438 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
439 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
440 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
441 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
442 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
443 and libc build with -Os)
444 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
445 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
446 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
447 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
448 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
449 that changes /etc/passwd
450 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
451 (CVE-2018-11237)
452 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
453 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
454 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
455 posix/regcomp.c
456 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
457 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
458 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
459 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
460 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
461 AT_SECURE
462 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
463 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
464 parser.c
465 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
466 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
467 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
468 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
469 directed rounding
470 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
471 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
472 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
473 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
474 lookup
475 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
476 interposition
477 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
478 DSO boundaries.
479 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
480 <linux/time.h>
481 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
482 checking
483 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
484 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
485 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
486 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
487 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
488 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
489 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
490 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
491 processors
492 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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495Version 2.27
496
497Major new features:
498
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500 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 501 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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502 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
503 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
504 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
505 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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506 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
507 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 508
ac817e08 509* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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510 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
511 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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513* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
514
4cf82d23 515* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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517* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
518 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
519 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
520 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
521 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
522 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
523 from a security and performance perspective.
524
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525* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
526 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
527 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
528 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
529
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532 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
533 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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534 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
535
a23aa5b7 536* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 537 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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538 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
539 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
540 _Float128.
541
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542* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
543 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
544 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 545
4bab0224 546* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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548* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
549 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
550 pkey_get.
551
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552* The copy_file_range function was added.
553
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554* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
555
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556* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
557 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
558 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
559
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561 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
562 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
563 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
564 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
565 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
566 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
567
568 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
569 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
570 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
571 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
572 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
573 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
574 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
575
576 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
577 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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579 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
580 respectively.
581
582 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
583 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
584 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
585 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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587 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
588 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
589 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
590
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592 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 593 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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596 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
597 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
598
599 - rv64imac lp64
600 - rv64imafdc lp64
601 - rv64imafdc lp64d
602
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604
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605* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
606 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 607 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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608 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
609 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
610 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
611 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
612 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
613 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
614 fix this.
615
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616* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
617 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
618 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
619
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620* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
621 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
622 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
623 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
624 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
625 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
626 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
627 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
628 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
629 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
630 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
631 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
632 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
633 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
634 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
635 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
636 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
637 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
638 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
639 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
640 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
641 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
642 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
643 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
644 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
645 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
646
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648 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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651 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
652 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
653 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
654 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
655 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
656 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
657
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658* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
659 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
660 exp10l for these functions instead.
661
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662* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
663 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
664 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
665
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666* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
667 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
668 ignored.
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670* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
671 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
672 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
673 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
674
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675* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
676 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
677
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678* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
679 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
680
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681* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
682 programs.
683
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684* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
685
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686* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
687 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
688 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
689 instead.
690
691 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
692 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
693 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
694 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
695 use, but predates the bits convention.
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698
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699* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
700 subdirectory.
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702Security related changes:
703
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704 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
705 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
706 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
707 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
708 script.)
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710 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
711 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
712 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
713 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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715 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
716 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
717 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
718 of service.
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721 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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722 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
723
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724 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
725 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
726 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
727 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
728
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729 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
730 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
731 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
732 Qualys.
733
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734 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
735 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
736 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
737 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
738 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
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740 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
741 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
742 current directory.
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744 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
745 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
746 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
747
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748 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
749 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
750 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
751
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752 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
753 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
754 small, instead of NULL.
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758 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
759 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
760 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
761 locale
762 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
763 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
764 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
765 cases
766 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
767 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
768 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
769 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
770 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
771 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
772 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
773 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
774 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
775 "Bangla"
776 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
777 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
778 width Latin characters
779 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
780 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
781 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
782 letters
783 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
784 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
785 (CVE-2009-5064)
786 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
787 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
788 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
789 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
790 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
791 if malloc succeeded
792 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
793 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
794 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
795 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
796 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
797 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
798 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
799 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
800 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
801 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
802 U+309A
803 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
804 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
805 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
806 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
807 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
808 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
809 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
810 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
811 for Nicaragua
812 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
813 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
814 are not found.
815 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
816 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
817 access
818 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
819 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
820 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
821 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
822 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
823 __regcall calling convention
824 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
825 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
826 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
827 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
828 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
829 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
830 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
831 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
832 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
833 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
834 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
835 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
836 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
837 locale
838 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
839 protector=all
840 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
841 wcwidth
842 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
843 consistency check failures
844 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
845 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
846 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
847 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
848 PIE
849 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
850 locales
851 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
852 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
853 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
854 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
855 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
856 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
857 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
858 on memory allocation failure
859 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
860 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
861 the suspect)
862 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
863 default (i386)
864 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
865 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
866 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
867 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
868 instead of EAI_NODATA
869 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
870 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
871 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
872 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
873 implementation
874 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
875 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
876 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
877 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
878 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
879 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
880 allocation in syscall loops)
881 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
882 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
883 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
884 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
885 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
886 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
887 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
888 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
889 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
890 occur with -O3
891 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
892 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
893 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
894 amounts)
895 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
896 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
897 niu_NZ
898 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
899 checks
900 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
901 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
902 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
903 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
904 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
905 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
906 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
907 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
908 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
909 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
910 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
911 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
912 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
913 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
914 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
915 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
916 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
917 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
918 parsing after OOM
919 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
920 object
921 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
922 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
923 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
924 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
925 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
926 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
927 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
928 ppc64le
929 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
930 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
931 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
932 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
933 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
934 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
935 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
936 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
937 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
938 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
939 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
940 math_force_eval
941 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
942 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
943 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
944 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
945 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
946 the svid compat wrapper
947 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
948 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
949 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
950 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
951 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
952 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
953 --verbose.
954 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
955 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
956 to 2.26
957 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
958 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
959 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
960 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
961 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
962 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
963 (CVE-2017-15804)
964 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
965 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
966 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
967 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
968 failure."
969 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
970 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
971 -m32
972 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
973 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
974 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
975 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
976 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
977 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
978 inside the ASCII printable range
979 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
980 -mlong-double-64
981 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
982 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
983 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
984 Internet
985 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
986 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
987 backslash
988 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
989 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
990 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
991 heaps in an arena
992 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
993 networking interface
994 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
995 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
996 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
997 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
998 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
999 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1000 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1001 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1002 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1003 order
1004 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1005 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1006 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1007 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1008 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1009 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1010 same as for Croatian
1011 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1012 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1013 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1014 for initial thread"
1015 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1016 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1017 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1018 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1019 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1020 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1021 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1022 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1023 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1024 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1025 modified in case of success
1026 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1027 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1028 success
1029 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1030 stack-protector=all
1031 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1032 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1033 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1034 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1035 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1036 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1037 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1038 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1039 adding it on top
1040 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1041 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1042 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1043 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1044 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1045 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1046 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1047 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1048 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1049 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1050 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1051 elision and tunables
1052 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1053 "invalid" exception
1054 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1055 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1056 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1057 exception
1058 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1059 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1060 power4
1061 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1062 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1063 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1064 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1065 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1066 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1067 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1068 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1069 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1072Version 2.26
1073
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1074Major new features:
1075
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1076* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1077 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1078 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1079 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1080 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1081 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1082 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1083
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1084* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1085 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1086 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1087 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1088 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1089 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1090 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1092* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1093 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1094 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1095
2b2ccd0c 1096* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1098 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1099 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1100 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1102 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1103 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1104 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1105 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1106 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1108 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1109 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1110 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1112* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1113 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1115* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1116 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1117 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1118 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1120* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1121 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1122 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1123 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1125* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1126 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1127 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1128 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1130* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1131 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1132 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1133
2b2ccd0c 1134* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1135 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1136 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1137 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1138
2b2ccd0c 1139 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1140 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1141 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1142 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1143 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1144
1145 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1146 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1147 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1148 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1149 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1150 interfaces should be used instead.
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1152Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1153
1154* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1155 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1156 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1157 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1158 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1159 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1160 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1161 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1162
1163* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1164 removed.
1165
1166* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1167 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1168 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1169 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1170
1171* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1172 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1173 default.
1174
1175 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1176 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1177 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1178 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1179 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1181 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1182 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1183 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1184 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1185
1186* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1187 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1188 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1189 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1190
1191* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1192 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1194* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1195 exported by accident.
1196
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1197* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1198 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1199 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1200
1201* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1202 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1203 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1204 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1205
1206* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1207
1208* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1209
1210* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1211 free instead.
1212
1213* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1214 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1215
1216* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1217 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1218
1219* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1220 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1221 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1222 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1223 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1224 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1225 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1226 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1227
1228* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1229 synced with the kernel:
1230
1231 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1232 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1233
1234 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1235 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1236 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1237
1238 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1239 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1240
1241Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1242
1243* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1244 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1245 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1246
7e368000 1247* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1250 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1252 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1253 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1254 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1255 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1256 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1259
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1261 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1262
1263* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1264 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1265
1266* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1267 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1268 (CVE-2010-3192).
1269
1270* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1271 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1275 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1276 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1277 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1278 fields
1279 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1280 (CVE-2010-3192)
1281 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1282 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1283 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1284 ld.bfd is available
1285 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1286 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1287 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1288 x86 and other generic code
1289 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1290 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1291 incorrect
1292 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1293 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1294 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1295 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1296 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1297 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1298 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1299 resolver
1300 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1301 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1302 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1303 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1304 chillu characters
1305 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1306 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1307 receiving data
1308 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1309 whitespace
1310 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1311 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1312 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1313 for Peru
1314 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1315 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1316 failures consistently
1317 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1318 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1319 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1320 frame-pointer on i386
1321 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1322 register
1323 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1324 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1325 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1326 generic c code is used
1327 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1328 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1329 around 4000
1330 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1331 (CVE-2017-12133)
1332 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1333 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1334 with -lieee
1335 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1336 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1337 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1338 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1339 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1340 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1341 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1342 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1343 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1344 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1345 remove()
1346 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1347 checked for errors.
1348 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1349 new posix_spawn implementation
1350 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1351 leads to lower CPU frequency
1352 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1353 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1354 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1355 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1356 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1357 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1358 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1359 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1360 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1361 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1362 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1363 not support gethostbyname4_r
1364 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1365 switching
1366 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1367 arenas
1368 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1369 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1370 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1371 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1372 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1373 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1374 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1375 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1376 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1377 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1378 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1379 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1380 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1381 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1382 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1383 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1384 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1385 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1386 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1387 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1388 retry value
1389 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1390 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1391 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1392 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1393 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1394 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1395 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1396 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1397 [21537] libc:
1398 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1399 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1400 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1401 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1402 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1403 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1404 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1405 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1406 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1407 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1408 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1409 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1410 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1411 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1412 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1413 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1414 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1415 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1416 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1417 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1418 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1419 issue on x86-64
1420 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1421 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1422 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1423 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1424 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1425 construction
1426 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1427 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1428 between_2_3
1429 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1430 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1431 conditions
1432 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1433 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1434 Hindi Locale
1435 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1436 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1437 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1438 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1439 locale
1440 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1441 leading to relocation crash
1442 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1443 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1444 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1445 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1446 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1447 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1448 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1449 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1450 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1451 locale
1452 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1453 locale
1454 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1455 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1456 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1457 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1458 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1459 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1460 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1461 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1462 strings
1463 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1464 protector=all
1465 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1466 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1467 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1468 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1469 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1470 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1471 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1472 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1473 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1474 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1475 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1476 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1477 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1478 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1479 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1480 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1481 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1482 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1483 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1484 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1485 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1486 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1487 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1488 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1489 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1490 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1491 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1492 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1493 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1494 with unicode 9.0
1495 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1496 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1497 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1498 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1499 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 1500
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1502Version 2.25
1503
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1504* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1505 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1506 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1507 Library.
e720d3d9 1508
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1509* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1510 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1511 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1512 the GNU C Library.
1513
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1514* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1515 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1516 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1517 the GNU C Library.
1518
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1519* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1520 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1521 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1522 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1523 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1524 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1525 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1526 will not.
1527
1528 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1529 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1530 many years.
1531
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1532* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1533 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1534 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1535
1536 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1537 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1538 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1539 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1540 problem.
1541
ec94343f 1542* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1543 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1544 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 1545
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1546* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1547 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1548 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1549 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1550 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1551 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1552 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1553 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1554 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1555 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1556 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1557 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 1558
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1559* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1560
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1561 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1562
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1563 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1564 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1565 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1566
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1567 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1568 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1569
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1570 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1571 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1572
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1573 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1574
29cb9293 1575 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1576
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1577 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1578 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1579
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1580 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1581
eb3c12c7 1582 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1583 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1584
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1585* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1586 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1587
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1588* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1589 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1590 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1591
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1592* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1593 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1594 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1595 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1596 effects of the memory clear).
1597
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1598* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1599 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1600 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1601 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1602
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1603* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1604 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1605 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1606 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1607 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1608 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 1609
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1610* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1611 have been added.
1612
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1613* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1614 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1615 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1616 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1617 as large as several megabytes.
1618
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1619* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1620 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1621 been removed.
1622
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1623* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1624 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1625 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1626 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1627 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1628 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1629 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1630
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1631* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1632 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1633 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1634 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1635
099191b1 1636* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1637 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1638 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1639 Internet.
1640
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1641* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1642 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1643 They were already unimplemented.
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1645* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1646 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1647 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1648 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1649
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1650* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1651 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1652 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1653 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1654 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1655
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1656* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1657 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1658 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1659 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1660 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1661
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1662* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1663 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1664 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1665 did not reflect that.
1666
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1667* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1668 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1669 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1670 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1671 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1672 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1673 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1674 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1675
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1676* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1677 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1678 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1679 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1680
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1681* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1682 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1683 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1684 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1685
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1686* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1687 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1688 guarantees.
1689
1690* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1691 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1692 make state changes.
1693
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1694Security related changes:
1695
fc82b0a2 1696* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1697 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1698 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1699 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1700 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1702* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1703 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1704 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1705 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1706 (CVE-2015-5180)
1707
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1708The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1709
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1710 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1711 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1712 protector-all
1713 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1714 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1715 before it started waiting
1716 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1717 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1718 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1719 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1720 wrong type
1721 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1722 library linked with pthread
1723 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1724 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1725 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1726 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1727 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1728 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1729 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1730 when it shouldnt
1731 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1732 not
1733 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1734 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1735 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1736 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1737 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1738 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1739 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1740 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1741 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1742 termination
1743 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1744 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1745 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1746 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1747 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1748 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1749 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1750 causes a segmentation fault
1751 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1752 linking
1753 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1754 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1755 uninitialized GOT
1756 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1757 versions
1758 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1759 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1760 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1761 is always true.
1762 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1763 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1764 modes
1765 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1766 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1767 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1768 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1769 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1770 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1771 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1772 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1773 libpthread.a
1774 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1775 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1776 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1777 _res_hconf
1778 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1779 information.
1780 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1781 penalty
1782 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1783 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1784 cause transition penalty
1785 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1786 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1787 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1788 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1789 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1790 mcount.oS)
1791 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1792 Checking
1793 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1794 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1795 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1796 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1797 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1798 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1799 multi-arch
1800 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1801 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1802 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1803 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1804 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1805 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1806 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1807 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1808 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1809 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1810 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1811 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1812 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1813 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1814 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1815 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1816 glibc
1817 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1818 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1819 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1820 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1821 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1822 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1823 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1824 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1825 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1826 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1827 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1828 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1829 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1830 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1831 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1832 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1833 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1834 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1835 RES_USE_INET6
1836 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1837 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1838 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1839 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1840 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1841 wrong condition
1842 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1843 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1844 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1845 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1846 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1847 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1848 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1849 clang
1850 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1851 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1852 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1853 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1854 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1858* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1859 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1860 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1861 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1862 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1863 architectures.
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1865* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1866 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1867 been included in previous releases.
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1869* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1870 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1871
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1872* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1873 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1874 instead of “union wait”.
1875
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1876* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1877 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1878 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1879 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1880 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1881 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1882 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1883
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1884* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1885 API.
1886
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1887* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1888 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1889 drop it.
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1891* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1892 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1893 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1894 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1895 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1896 extensions.
1897
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1899
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1900* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1901 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1902 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1903
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1904* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1905 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1906 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1907 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1909* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1910 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1911 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1912
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1913* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1914 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1915 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1916
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1917* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1918 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1919 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1920 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1923
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1924 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1925 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1926 of MS-DOS.
1927 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1928 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1929 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1930 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1931 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1932 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1933 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1934 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1935 CLDR data
1936 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1937 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1938 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1939 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1940 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1941 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1942 romanisation
1943 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1944 and +/-
1945 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1946 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1947 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1948 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1949 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1950 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1951 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1952 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1953 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1954 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1955 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1956 all locales
1957 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1958 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1959 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1960 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1961 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1962 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1963 execute
1964 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1965 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1966 -Wsystem-headers
1967 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1968 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1969 Romanian locale data
1970 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1971 symbol
1972 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1973 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1974 language
1975 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1976 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1977 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1978 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1979 machine
1980 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1981 description
1982 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1983 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1984 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1985 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1986 when using RTLD_NEXT
1987 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1988 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1989 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1990 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1991 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1992 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1993 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1994 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1995 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1996 Excavator core
1997 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1998 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1999 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2000 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2001 double range
2002 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2003 part zero incorrect
2004 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2005 equality tests
2006 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2007 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2008 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2009 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2010 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2011 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2012 glibc-2.22
2013 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2014 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2015 'tst-numeric.c'
2016 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2017 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2018 low part
2019 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2020 result
2021 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2022 unaligned stack
2023 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2024 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2025 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2026 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2027 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2028 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2029 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2030 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2031 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2032 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2033 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2034 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2035 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2036 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2037 modes
2038 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2039 server addresses
2040 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2041 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2042 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2043 response to getaddrinfo
2044 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2045 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2046 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2047 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2048 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2049 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2050 sometimes incorrect
2051 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2052 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2053 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2054 record types
2055 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2056 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2057 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2058 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2059 (CVE-2016-3075)
2060 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2061 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2062 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2063 resolving symbols
2064 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2065 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2066 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2067 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2068 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2069 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2070 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2071 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2072 gethosts
2073 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2074 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2075 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2076 (CVE-2016-3706)
2077 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2078 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2079 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2080 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2081 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2082 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2083 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2084 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2085 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2086 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2087 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2088 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2089 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2090 executable
2091 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2092 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2093 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2094 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2095 XPG3
2096 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2097 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2098 (CVE-2016-4429)
2099 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2100 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2101 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2102 AS not supporting AVX512
2103 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2104 sNaN argument
2105 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2106 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2107 argument
2108 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2109 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2110 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2111 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2112 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2113 eax=0x80000001
2114 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2115 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2116 subnormals
2117 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2118 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2119 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2120 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2121 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2122 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2123 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2124 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2125 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2126 input
2127 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2128 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2129 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2130 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2131 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2132 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2133 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2134 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2135 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2136 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2137 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2138 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2139 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2140 double rounding
2141 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2142 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2143 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2144 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2145 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2146 (Only arm/linux)
2147 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2148 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2149 fallbacks
2150 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2151 "invalid" exceptions
2152 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2153 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2154 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2155 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2156 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2157 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2158 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2159 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2160 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2164* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2165 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2166 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2167 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2168 89, 16061, and 18568.
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2170* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2171 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2172 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2173 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2174 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2175 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2176 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2177
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2178* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2179 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2180 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2181
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2182* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2183 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2184 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2185 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2186 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2187 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2188 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2189
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2190* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2191 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2192 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2193 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2194 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2195 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2196 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2197 Ericsson.)
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2199* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2200 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2201 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2202 independent of the GNU C Library.
2203
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2204* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2205 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2207* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2208 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2209 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2210 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2211 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2212 Linux kernel.
2213
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2214* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2215 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2217* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2218 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2219 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2220 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2221 defining their own copy.
2222
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2223* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2224 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2225 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2227Security related changes:
2228
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2229* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2230 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2231
2232* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2233 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2234 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2235 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2236 (CVE-2015-8777)
2237
2238* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2239 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2240
2241* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2242 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2243
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2244* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2245 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2246 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2248* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2249 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2250 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2251 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2252 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2253 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2254 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2255 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2256 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2257 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2258 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2259 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2260 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2261
ad372e29 2262The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2264 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2265 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2266 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2267 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2268 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2269 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2270 use `mkstemp'
2271 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2272 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2273 overflow/underflow errors
2274 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2275 overflow/underflow
2276 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2277 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2278 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2279 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2280 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2281 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2282 are not contiguous
2283 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2284 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2285 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2286 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2287 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2288 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2289 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2290 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2291 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2292 all exceptions
2293 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2294 arguments
2295 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2296 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2297 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2298 should include
2299 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2300 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2301 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2302 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2303 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2304 GNU/Linux
2305 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2306 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2307 arguments
2308 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2309 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2310 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2311 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2312 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2313 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2314 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2315 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2316 rounding results
2317 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2318 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2319 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2320 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2321 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2322 fails
2323 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2324 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2325 block boundary
2326 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2327 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2328 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2329 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2330 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2331 4.7?
2332 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2333 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2334 (related to lock elision)
2335 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2336 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2337 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2338 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2339 (CVE-2015-8779)
2340 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2341 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2342 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2343 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2344 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2345 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2346 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2347 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2348 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2349 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2350 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2351 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2352 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2353 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2354 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2355 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2356 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2357 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2358 contains a vector instruction exception.
2359 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2360 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2361 locales
2362 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2363 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2364 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2365 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2366 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2367 missing break ?
2368 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2369 32bit processes
2370 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2371 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2372 infinity
2373 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2374 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2375 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2376 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2377 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2378 be forced unloaded
2379 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2380 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2381 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2382 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2383 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2384 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2385 statically too large
2386 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2387 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2388 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2389 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2390 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2391 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2392 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2393 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2394 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2395 FUTEX_SHARED
2396 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2397 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2398 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2399 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2400 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2401 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2402 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2403 opendir()
2404 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2405 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2406 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2407 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2408 signgam
2409 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2410 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2411 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2412 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2413 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2414 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2415 dependencies
2416 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2417 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2418 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2419 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2420 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2421 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2422 (CVE-2015-8776)
2423 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2424 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2425 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2426 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2427 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2428 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2429 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2430 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2431 contention
2432 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2433 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2434 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2435 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2436 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2437 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2438 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2439 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2440 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2441 rounding modes
2442 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2443 ILP32
2444 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2445 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2446 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2447 threshold
2448 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2449 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2450 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2451 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2452 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2453 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2454 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2455 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2456 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2457 pthread_setaffinity_np
2458 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2459 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2460 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2461 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2462 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2463 prelink
2464 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2465 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2466 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2467 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2468 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2469 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2470 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2471 bits/mathcalls.h
2472 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2473 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2474 for C99-based standards
2475 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2476 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2477 math-only
2478 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2479 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2480 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2481 disabled
2482 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2483 "inexact" exceptions
2484 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2485 arguments
2486 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2487 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2488 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2489 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2490 rules
2491 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2492 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2493 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2494 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2495 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2496 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2497 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2498 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2499 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2500 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2501 from 32bit
2502 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2503 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2504 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2505 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2506 subnormals
2507 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2508 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2509 error on 32-bit architectures
2510 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2511 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2512 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2513 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2514 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2515 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2516 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2517 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2518 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2519 -Os
2520 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2521 CPU's.
2522 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2523 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2524 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2525 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2526 architectures
2527 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2529Version 2.22
2530
2531* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2532
3df5cd98 2533 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2534 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2535 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2536 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2537 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2538 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2539 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2540 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2541 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2542 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2543 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2544 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2545 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2546 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2547 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2548 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2549 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2550 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2551 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2552 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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2554* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2555 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2556
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2557* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2558 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2559 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2560 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2561 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2562 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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2564* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2565 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2566 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2567 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2568 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2569
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2570* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2571 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2572 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2573
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2574* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2575 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2576 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2577 17998.
2578
b13b96ca
AS
2579* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2580 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2581 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2582
2583* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2584 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2585 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2586 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2587 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2588 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2589 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2590 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2591
2592* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2593 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2594 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2595 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2596
2597* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2598 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2599 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2600
2601* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2602 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2603
2604* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2605 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2606 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2607
a03ba363 2608 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2609 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2610 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2611\f
58b930ae
SP
2612Version 2.21
2613
2614* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2615
042e1521 2616 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2617 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2618 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2619 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2620 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2621 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2622 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2623 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2624 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2625 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2626 17892.
2627
46d54873
FW
2628* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2629 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2630 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2631 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2632 intended.
042e1521
CD
2633
2634* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2635 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2636 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2637 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2638 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2639 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2640
522e6ee3
CLT
2641* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2642
d3b00f46
AZ
2643* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2644 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2645 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2646
8d2c0a59
AZ
2647* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2648 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2649 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2650 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2651 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2652 effects being visible outside transactions.
2653
dc400d7b
RE
2654* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2655 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2656
0f9dfe04
L
2657* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2658
a39208bd
CD
2659* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2660 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2661 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2662 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2663 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2664
a5357b7c
JL
2665* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2666 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2667
e54db0ea
AM
2668* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2669 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2670 format.
11e3417a 2671
4863355a
JM
2672* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2673 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2674 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2675
a4ecc9eb
JM
2676* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2677 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2678
0d560bbf 2679* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2680
2681* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2682 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2683 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2684 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2685
2686* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2687 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2688
2689* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2690 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2691 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2692 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2693 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2694 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2695 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2696 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2697 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2698 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2699 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2700 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2701 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2702
2703 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2704 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2705 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2706 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2707 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2708\f
d5b396c1
AM
2709Version 2.20
2710
2711* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2712
6a9350c8
JM
2713 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2714 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2715 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2716 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2717 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2718 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2719 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2720 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2721 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2722 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2723 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2724 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2725 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2726 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2727 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2728
95ee7fb1
SL
2729* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2730 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2731 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2732 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2733 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2734 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2735 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2736 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2737 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2738 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2739
0961f7e1
JL
2740* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2741 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2742 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2743 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2744 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2745
f940b965
RE
2746* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2747
d0f5b3f8
JM
2748* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2749 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2750
d6fe5e58
JM
2751* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2752 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2753 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2754 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2755 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2756 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2757
464263cc
JM
2758* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2759 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2760
2761* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2762 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2763 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2764 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2765 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2766 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2767 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2768
2769* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2770
2771* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2772 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2773 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2774 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2775 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2776 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2777 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2778
2779* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2780 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2781 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2782 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2783 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2784
2785* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2786 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2787 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2788
2789* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2790 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2791 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2792 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2793
2794* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2795 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2796 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2797 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2798 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2799 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2800 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2801 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2802
2803* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2804 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2805 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2806 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2807 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2808 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2809 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2810 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2811 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2812
2813* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2814 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2815 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2816 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2817 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2818 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2819
2820* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2821 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2822 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2823 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2824\f
2825Version 2.19
2826
2827* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2828
fd2f9486
JM
2829 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2830 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2831 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2832 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2833 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2834 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2835 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2836 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2837 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2838 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2839 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2840 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2841 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2842 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2843 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2844 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2845 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2846 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2847
11520a57
CD
2848* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2849 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2850
2fe16229
CD
2851* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2852 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2853 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2854 extension which uses __block.
2855
303e567a
SP
2856* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2857 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2858 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2859 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2860 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2861
141f3a77
SP
2862* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2863 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2864 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2865 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2866 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2867
2868* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2869 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2870 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2871 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2872 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2873
2874* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2875 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2876 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2877
ba0d798c
WN
2878* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2879 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2880 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2881 #15856, #15857).
2882
7cbcdb36
SP
2883* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2884 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2885
82bab04b 2886* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2887 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
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c5f840fd
MB
2889* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2890
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CD
2891* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2892 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2893
3e181dda 2894* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2895
8a05c252
CL
2896* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2897
6055173a
JM
2898* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2899 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2900 for which the C library was built.
2901
b125d3e5
JM
2902* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2903 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2904 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2905 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2906 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2907 in the following circumstances:
2908
2909 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2910
2911 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2912 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2913
d4f66d37
JM
2914* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2915 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2916
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CD
2917* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2918 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2919
ffb89e53
AO
2920* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2921
5d29ccce
SP
2922* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2923 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2924
8b7d57cd 2925* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2926
2927* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2928
fd712ef3 2929* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2930
c688b419
JM
2931* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2932 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2933 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2934 disable some of those declarations.
2935
7011c262 2936* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2937 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2938 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2939
2940* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2941 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2942
2943* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2944 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2945 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2946 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2947 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2948 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2949 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2950 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2951 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2952 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2953 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2954 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2955 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
2956\f
2957Version 2.18
2958
2959* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2960
17db6e8d 2961 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2962 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2963 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2964 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2965 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2966 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2967 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2968 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2969 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2970 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2971 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2972 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2973 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2974 15755, 15759.
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CD
2975
2976* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2977 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2978 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2979 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2980 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2981 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2982
5b535ac4
AS
2983* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2984 #15078).
2985
1cef1b19
AS
2986* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2987 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2988
55e4107b
SP
2989* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2990 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2991 destructor calls to glibc.
2992
e5c74c63
SP
2993* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2994 output.
2995
2996* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2997 non-x86 architectures.
2998
e7521973
JM
2999* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3000
3001* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3002
3003* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3004 Richard Henderson.
3005
3006* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3007
3008* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3009 Richard Henderson.
3010
3011* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3012 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3013
8cfdb7e0
SP
3014* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3015
57267616
TS
3016* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3017 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3018
c204ab28
SP
3019* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3020 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3021
0748546f
PE
3022* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3023 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3024 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3025
61dd6208
SP
3026* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3027 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3028 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3029
3030* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3031 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3032 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3033 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3034 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3035
3036* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3037 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3038
3039* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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3040\f
3041Version 2.17
3042
3043* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3044
80ceeaee 3045 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3046 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3047 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3048 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3049 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3050 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3051 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3052 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3053 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3054 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3055 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3056 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3057 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3058 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3059 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3060
95b4f1b6
SE
3061* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3062
14bc93a9
JL
3063* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3064 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3065
b54eb3cb
JM
3066* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3067 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3068
7e2bd01f
MS
3069* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3070
08f43f9b
AK
3071* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3072 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3073 zEnterprise z196.
3074 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3075
84b3fd84
FW
3076* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3077 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3078 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3079
815e6fa3
GB
3080* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3081 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3082
400726de
MK
3083* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3084 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3085
7aab07e4 3086* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3087 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3088
15d0da8c
WS
3089* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3090 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3091
3cc3ef96
RM
3092* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3093 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3094 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3095 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3096
b54eb3cb
JM
3097* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3098 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3099
85429b1a 3100* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3101 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3102 default.
3103
b54eb3cb
JM
3104* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3105 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3106 information in --help and --version output.
3107
050af9c4
SP
3108* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3109 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3110 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3111
89a3ad0b
AO
3112* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3113 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3114 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3115 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3116 when the mode is enabled.
3117
6e6249d0
RM
3118* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3119 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3120 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3121 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3122 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3123 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3124 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3125
d9286582
NK
3126* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3127 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3128\f
3129Version 2.16
3130
3131* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3132
a8133e19
JM
3133 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3134 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3135 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3136 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3137 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3138 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3139 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3140 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3141 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3142 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3143 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3144 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3145 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3146 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3147 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3148 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3149 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3150 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3151 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3152 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3153 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3154 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3155 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3156
a086b4d6
L
3157* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3158 configuring glibc with:
3159 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3160 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3161 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3162
380d7e87
UD
3163* ISO C11 support:
3164
3165 + define static_assert
3166
3167 + do not declare gets
3168
3169 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3170
3171 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3172 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3173 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3174 implementation.
8d44e150 3175
74033a25 3176 + timespec_get added
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3177
3178 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3179
ac097f5c
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3180 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3181
16dd419d
UD
3182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3183
9dc4e1fb 3184* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3185
3186* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3187
3188* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3189 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3190
3191* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3192 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3193
3194* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3195 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3196 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3197 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3198 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3199
21708942 3200* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3201 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3202 before 2.6.
83678f76 3203
edb00e4d
RH
3204* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3205 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3206 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3207
83678f76 3208* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3209
3210* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3211 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3212 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3213 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3214 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3215
3216* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3217
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3218* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3219 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3220
3221* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3222
3223* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3224 without a previously built glibc.
3225
3226* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3227 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3228
3229* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3230 now supported for ARM processors.
3231
3232* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3233 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3234 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3235
3236* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3237
3238* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3239 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3240 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3241 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3242
3243* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3244 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3245 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3246 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
3247
3248* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3249 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3250 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3251 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3252 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3253
3254* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3255 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3256 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3257 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3258\f
e80fab37 3259Version 2.15
11988f8f 3260
c0244a9d
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3261* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3262
aebae053
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3263 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3264 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3265 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3266 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3267 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3268 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3269 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3270
11988f8f
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3271* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3272 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
3273
3274* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3275 and support for initgroups lookups.
3276 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3277
3278* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3279 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3280
3281* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3282 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3283
fc2ee42a
LD
3284* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3285 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3286 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3287
d42964a0 3288* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3289 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3290
1d3e4b61
UD
3291* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3292 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3293 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3294
c55fbd1e
UD
3295* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3297
3298* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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3300
3301* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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3303
3304* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3306
3307* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3308 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3309
3310* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3311 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3312
3313* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3314
3315* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3317
f0b264f1
AZ
3318* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3319 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3320
6b64057b 3321* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3322\f
dded88cd 3323Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3324
50934221
UD
3325* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3326
553149f6 3327 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3328 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3329 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3330 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3331 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3332 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3333 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3334 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3335 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3336 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3337
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3338* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3339 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3340 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3341 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3342
3343 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3344 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3345 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3346 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3347
c6489db3 3348* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3349 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3350
72d1dddb 3351* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3352 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3353
3354* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3355
3356* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3357 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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3358
3359* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3360 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3361 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3362 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3363\f
4828935d
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3364Version 2.13
3365
ac2b484c
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3366* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3367
c30b7ee2
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3368 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3369 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3370 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3371 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3372 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3373
10b3bedc 3374* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3375
ac2b484c 3376* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3377
e9f82e0d
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3378* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3379 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3380 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3381\f
ee1a7fab
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3382Version 2.12
3383
d36b9613
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3384* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3385
2e0fb521
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3386 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3387 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3388 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3389 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3390 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3391 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3392 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3393 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3394
3395* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3398
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3400
3401* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3402 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3403 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3404
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3406 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3407 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3408 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3409 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3410
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3414
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3416
3417 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3418 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3419 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3420 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3421 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3422 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3423
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3424* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3425 mkostemps64
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3426 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3427
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3429 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3430
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3431* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3432 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3433
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3434* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3435
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9d36a6c4 3437 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3438 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3440
9d36a6c4 3441 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3443
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3444* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3445 strstr, strcasestr.
3446 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3447
3448* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3449 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3450
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3451* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3452 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3453
3454* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3456
3457* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3458 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3459 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3460 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3461 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3462 necessity is every process again.
3463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3464
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3465* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3466 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3467
3468* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3469 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
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3471* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3472 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3474
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3478
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3480
3481 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3482 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3483 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3484 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3485 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3486
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3489
425ce2ed 3490* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3491 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3492
1fdd89a7 3493* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3494 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3497 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3499* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3504
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3505* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3506 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3507
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3508* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3509 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3510
3511* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3512 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3514
735be400 3515* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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3519
3520* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3521 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3523
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3524* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3526
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3527* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3528 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3529 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3530 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3531 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3532 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3535
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3537
3538 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3539 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3540 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3541 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3542 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3543
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3545 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3546
3547* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3548 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3550* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3551 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3553* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3554 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3555 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3556
3557* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3558 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3562* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3563 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3565* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3566 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3567 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3569
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3570* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3571 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3573* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3574 Sinhala)
48b22986 3575 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3577* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3580
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3582
3583 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3584 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3585 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3586 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3587 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3588 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3589 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3590
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77751669 3593* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3595* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3596 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3597
3598* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3599
3600* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3601 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3602
3603* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3604 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3605
3606* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3607 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3608 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3609
3610* Faster memset for x86-64.
3611 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3612
3613* Faster memcpy on x86.
3614 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3615
3616* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3617 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3619* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3620 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3623
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3624* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3625
3626 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3627 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3628 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3629 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3630 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3631
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3632* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3633 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3634
3635* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3636
3637* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3638 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3639 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3640
3641* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3642 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3643
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3645 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3646
3647* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3648
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3649* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3651
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3652* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3653 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3654
3655* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3656 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3657
3658* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3659
3660* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3663* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3664 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3665 yo_NG.
3666
3667+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3668 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3673
3674 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3675 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3676 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3677 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3678 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3679 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3680 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3681 4702, 4858
3682
bce20b9a 3683* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3685* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3686
b21fa963 3687* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3690
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3691* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3692
3693 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3694 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3695 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3696 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3697 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3698 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3699 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3700 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3701 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3702
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3704 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3707* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3709
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3712* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3714* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3715 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3716 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3719
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3721 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3722 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3723 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3724
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3725* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3726 Ulrich Drepper.
3727
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3728* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3729
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3730* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3731 Ulrich Drepper.
3732
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3733* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3734
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3735* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3736 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3739
3740* More overflow detection functions.
3741
3742* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3743 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3745 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3746 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3747 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3748 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3749 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3750 by Masahide Washizawa.
3751
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3753 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3755* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3756 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3757 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3758 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3760* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3761 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3762
3763* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3764
3765* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3766 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3767 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3768
3769* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3770 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3771
3772* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3773 for compatibility with some other systems.
3774
3775* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3778
3779* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3780
3781 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3782 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3783 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3784 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3785 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3786 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3787
3788 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3789
3790* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3791
3792* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3795
3796* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3797
3798 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3799 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3800 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3801 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3802
3803 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3806
3807* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3810* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3811 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3813
3814* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3815 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3816
0325dd20 3817* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3818 efficiently.
3819 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3820
3821* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3822 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3823 handling data.
3824
3825* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3826 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3827 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3829* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3831
3832* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3833 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3834 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3835 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3836
3837* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3838 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3839 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3840 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3841
3842* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3843 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3844 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3845 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3846 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3848Version 2.3.3
3849
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3850* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3851 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3852
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3853* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3854 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3855
69be6aaf 3856* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3857 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3858
3859* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3861
3862* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3863 by Roland McGrath.
3864
c5af724c 3865* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3866 and Ulrich Drepper.
3867
3868* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3869 RFC 3484.
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3871Version 2.3.2
3872
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3873* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3874 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3875 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3876 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3877 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3878 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3879 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3880 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3881 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3882
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3883* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3884 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3885 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3886
3887* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3888
3889* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3890 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3891
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3892* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3893 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3894
52a16e58 3895* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3897* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3898 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3899
3900* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3901 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3902 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3903 of weak definition in ld.so.
3904
3905* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3906 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3907
3908* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3909 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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03a2c647 3911Version 2.3
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3913* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3914 charsets.
3915
3916* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3917 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3918
bb0ec5bd 3919* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3920 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3921
3922* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3923 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3924
bb0ec5bd 3925* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3926 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3927 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3928
3929* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3930 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3931
bb0ec5bd 3932* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3933 implementation of regex.
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3934
3935* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3936 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3937
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3938* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3939 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3940
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3941* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3942 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3943 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3944
3945* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3946 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3947
3948* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3949 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3950 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3951
3952* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3953 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3954
3955* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3956 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3957 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3958
3959* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3960\f
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3961Version 2.2.6
3962
3963* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3964 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3965
3966* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3967 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3969Version 2.2.5
3970
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3971* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3972 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3973
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3974* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3975 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3976
ad2e4f18 3977* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3978
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3979* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3980
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3981* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3982 as well.
3983
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3984* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3985 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3986
3987* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3989Version 2.2.4
3990
2995f70e 3991* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3992 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3993
3994* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3995 support Unicode 3.1.
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3996
3997* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3998 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3999
69d5f925 4000* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4001
69d5f925 4002* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4003 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4004 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4005
4006* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4007 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4008
4009* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4010 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4011
4012* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 4013\f
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4014Version 2.2.3
4015
1746f2b0 4016* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4017 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4018 in float, double, and long double format.
4019
f128331c 4020* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4021 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4022 128-bit long double format.
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4024* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4025 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4026 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4027 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4028
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4029* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4030 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4031 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4032
4033* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4034 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4035
4036* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4037 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4038
4039* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4040 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4041 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4042
4043* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4044 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4045
4046* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4047 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4048
4049* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2ace5721 4050\f
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4051Version 2.2.2
4052
464d97ec 4053* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4054 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4055 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4056 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4057 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4058 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4059 other headers.
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4060
4061* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4062 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4063
4064* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4065 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4066 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4067 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4068
4069* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4070 locales. While
4071
4072 locale -a
4073
4074 only lists the names of the supported locales
4075
4076 locale -a --verbose
4077
4078 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4079 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4081Version 2.2.1
4082
4083* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4084 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4085 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4086 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4087 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4088
4089 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4090
4091 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4092
4093 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4094
4095* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4096 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4097 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4098
4099* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4100 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4101
4102* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4103 changed from the default "C" locale.
4104
4105* The usual bug fixes.
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4107Version 2.2
4108
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4109* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4110 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4111 is in progress.
4112
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4113* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4114
793bd4d9 4115* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4116
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4117 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4118 obviously requires a database library being available.
4119
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4120* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4121
abbffdf9 4122* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4123
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4124* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4125 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4126
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4127* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4128
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4129* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4130 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4131 and Mark Kettenis.
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4132
4133 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4134 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4135 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4136
a00c3ca9 4137 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4138 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4139
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4140* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4141 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4142 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4143
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4144* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4145 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4146 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4148
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4149 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4150 structures for the wide character tables.
4151
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4152* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4153
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4154* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4155
4156* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4157
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4158* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4159 and Yutaka Niibe.
4160
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4161* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4162
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4163* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4164
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4165* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4166
4167* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4168
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4169* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4170
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4171* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4172 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4173 implemented for Linux.
4174
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4175* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4176 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4177 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4178 versions.
4179
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4180* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4181 Masahide Washizawa.
4182
8f3f1e09 4183* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4184\f
4185Version 2.1.3
4186
4187* bug fixes
4188
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4189\f
4190Version 2.1.2
4191
4192* bug fixes
4193
28f540f4 4194\f
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4195Version 2.1.1
4196
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4197* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4198
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4199* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4200
407d26b7 4201* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4202
4203* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4204
407d26b7 4205* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4206
407d26b7 4207* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4208
4209* Update timezone data files.
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4211* lots of charmaps corrections
4212
4213* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4214
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4216Version 2.1
4217
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4218* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4219 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4220 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4221 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4222 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4223 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4224
c84142e8 4225* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4226 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4227
1fb05e3d 4228* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4229 symbol level.
4230
4231* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4232 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4233
cbdee279 4234* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4235
4236* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4237 numbers.
377a515b 4238
cbdee279 4239* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4240
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4241* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4242 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4243
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4244* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4245 library.
4246
e61abf83 4247* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4248 functions from ISO C 9X.
4249
4250* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4251 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4252
a5a0310d 4253* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4254
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4255* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4256
4257* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4258
440d13e2 4259* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4260
4261* Optimized string functions have been added.
4262
4263* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4264
4265* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4266
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4267* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4268 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4269
4270 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4271 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4272
0dee6738 4273 user system wall
48244d09 4274
0dee6738 4275 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4276
0dee6738 4277 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4278
0dee6738 4279 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
48244d09 4280
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4281 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4282
4283 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4284
4285 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
48244d09 4286
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4287 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4288 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4289 horribly slow.
48244d09 4290
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4291 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4292 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4293
4294* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4295
4296* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4297
4298* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4299 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4300
4301* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 4302
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4303* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4304 Bambrough.
4305
4306* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4307 latest draft standards.
4308
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4309* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4310
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4311* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4312~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4314alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4315argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4316argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4317argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4318argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4319argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4320argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4321argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4322argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4323argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4324argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4325authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4326authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4327authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4328backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4329backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4330backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4331cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4332cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4333cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4334cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4335cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4336cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4337capget NEW: kernel
4338capset NEW: kernel
4339carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4340cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4341cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4342casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4343casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4344casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4345casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4346casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4347casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4348catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4349catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4350catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4351catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4352catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4353catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4354cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4356ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4357ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4358ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4359ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4360ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4361cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4362cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4363cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4364cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4365cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4366cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4367clearerr_locked REMOVED
4368clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4369clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4370clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4371clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4372clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4373clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4374clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4375conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4376conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4377conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4378cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4379cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4380cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4381cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4382cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4383cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4384creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4385crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4386creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4387creat64 NEW: LFS
4388csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4389csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4390csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4391csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4392csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4393csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4394csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4395csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4396csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4397ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4398ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4399ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4400ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4401ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4402ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4404ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4405endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4407exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4408exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4409exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4410exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4411exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4412fattach NEW: STREAMS
4413fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4414fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4415fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4416fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4417feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4418fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4419fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4420fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4421feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4422feof_locked REMOVED
4423feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4424ferror_locked REMOVED
4425fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4426fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4427fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4428fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4429feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4430fflush_locked REMOVED
4431ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4432ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4433fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4434fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4435fileno_locked REMOVED
4436fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4437fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4438fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4439fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4440fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4441fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4442fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4443fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4444fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4445fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4447fputc_locked REMOVED
4448fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4449fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4450freopen64 NEW: LFS
4451fseeko NEW: Unix98
4452fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4453fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4454fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4455fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4456ftello NEW: Unix98
4457ftello64 NEW: LFS
4458ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4459ftw64 NEW: LFS
4460fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4461gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4462gamma_r REMOVED
4463gammaf_r REMOVED
4464gammal_r REMOVED
4465getchar_locked REMOVED
4466getdate NEW: Unix98
4467getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4468getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4469getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4470getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4473getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4474getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4476getutxid NEW: Unix98
4477getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4479globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4480gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4481gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4482grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4483host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4485iconv_close NEW: iconv
4486iconv_open NEW: iconv
4487if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4488if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4489if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4490if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4491in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4492in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4493inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4494isastream NEW: STREAMS
4495iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4496key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4497key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4498key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4499key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4500key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4501key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4502key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4503key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4504key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4506llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4507llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4508llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4509llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4510llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4511log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4512log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4513log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4514lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4515lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4516lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4517lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4518lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4519lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4520lseek64 NEW: LFS
4521makecontext NEW: Unix98
4522mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4523mmap64 NEW: LFS
4524moncontrol REMOVED
4525modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4526nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4527nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4528nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4529nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4530nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4531nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4533netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4535nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4536nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4538nftw64 NEW: LFS
4539open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4540passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4541pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4542pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4543pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4544pread NEW: Unix98
4545pread64 NEW: LFS
4546printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4547printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4548profil_counter REMOVED
4549pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4550pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4551ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4552ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4553putc_locked REMOVED
4554putchar_locked REMOVED
4555putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4556putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4557putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4558pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4560pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4561readdir64 NEW: LFS
4562readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4563remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4564remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4565remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4566round NEW: ISO C 9x
4567roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4568roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4569rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4570scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4571scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4572scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4573scandir64 NEW: LFS
4574sendfile NEW: kernel
4575setcontext NEW: Unix98
4576setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4577setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4579sigignore NEW: Unix98
4580sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4581sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4582sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4583sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4584sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4585sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4586sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4587sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4588statfs64 NEW: LFS
4589statvfs NEW: Unix98
4590statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4591strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4593strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4594strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4595svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4596svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4597svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4598swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4599tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4600tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4601tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4602tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4603tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4604tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4605trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4606truncate64 NEW: LFS
4607truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4608truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4609umount2 NEW: kernel
4610unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4611updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4612user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4613utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4614versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4615versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4616waitid NEW: Unix98
4617wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4618wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4619wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4620wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4621wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4622wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4623wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4624wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4625wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4626wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4627write_profiling REMOVED
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4629xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4630xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4631xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4632xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4633xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4634xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4635xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4636xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4637xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4638xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4639xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4640xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4641xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4642xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4643~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4645Version 2.0.6
4646
4647* more bug fixes
4648
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4649\f
4650Version 2.0.5
4651
4652* more bug fixes
4653
4654* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4655
4656* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4657
4658* rewrite of cbrt function
4659
4660* update of timezone data
4661\f
4662Version 2.0.4
4663
4664* more bug fixes
4665\f
4666Version 2.0.3
4667
4668* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4669\f
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4670Version 2.0.2
4671
4672* more bug fixes
4673
4674* add atoll function
4675
4676* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4678* fix math functions
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4679\f
4680Version 2.0.1
4681
4682* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4683
4684* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4685
4686* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4687 the ELF dynamic loader.
4688
4689* support for parallel builds is improved
4690\f
40a4b79f 4691Version 2.0
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4693* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4694 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4695 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4696
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4697* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4698 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4699 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4700 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4701 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4702 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4703 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4704 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4705 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4706 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4707 files in the ELF format.
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4708
4709* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4710 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4711
4712* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4713 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4714 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4715 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4716 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4717 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4718 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4719 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4720 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4721 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4722 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4724* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4725 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4726 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4727 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4728 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4729
f7eac6eb 4730* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4731 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4732 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4733 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4734 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4735
4736* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4737
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4738* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4739 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4740 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4741 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4742 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4743 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4744 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4745 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4746 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4747
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4748* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4749 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4750 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4751
4752* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4753 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4754 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4755
4756* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4757 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4758 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4759 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4760
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4761* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4762 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4763 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4764
4765* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4766 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4767 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4768
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4769* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4770 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4771
f7eac6eb 4772* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4773 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4774 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4775 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4776
4777* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4778 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4779 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4780
71733723 4781* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4782 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4783 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4784 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4785 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4786 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4787 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4788 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4789
4790* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4791 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4792 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4793 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4794 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4795 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4796 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4797
4798* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4799 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4800 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4801 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4802 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4803 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4804
4805* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4806 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4807
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4809 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4810 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4812* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4813
4814* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4815 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4816 their use is discouraged.
4817
4818* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4819 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4821* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4822 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4823
4824* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4825 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4826
4827* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4828 see <dirent.h>.
4829
4830* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4831 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4832 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4833 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4834 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4835
4836* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4837 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4838 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4839 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4840
4841* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4842 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4843
4844* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4845 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4846 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4847 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4848 number generator.
4849
4850* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4851 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4852
4853* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4854 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4855
71733723 4856* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4857 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4858 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4859 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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4861* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4862
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4863* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4864 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4865 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4866
4867* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4868 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4870* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4871 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4872 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4873 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4874
4875* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4876 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4877 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4878 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4879 programs already written to use it.)
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4880
4881* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4882 constants.
4883
4884* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4885 with 4.4 BSD.
4886
4887* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4888 a given effective group ID.
4889
4890* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4891 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4892 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4893 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4894
4895* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4896 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4897 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4898 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4899 doing the same thing.
4900
4901* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4902 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4903
4904* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4905 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4906
4907* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4908
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4909* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4910 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4911 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4912 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4913 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4914
4915* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4916 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4917
4918* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4919 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4920 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4921 function.
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4922
4923* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4924
4925* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4926 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4927 strings.
4928
4929* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4930 and writing the utmp file.
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4932* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4933 Thorsten Kukuk.
4934
4935* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4936 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4937 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4938
4939* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4940 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4941
4942* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4943 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4944 specification.
4945
4946* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4947 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4948 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4949 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4950
4951* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4952 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4953 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4954
4955* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4956 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4957 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4958 expression matcher.
4959
4960* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4961 functionality.
4962
4963* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4964 by Ulrich Drepper.
4965
4966* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4967
4968* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4969 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4970 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4972Version 1.09
4973
4974* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4975
4976* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4977 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4978
4979* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4980 want to put themselves in the background.
4981
4982* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4983 run without an operating system.
4984
4985* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4986 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4987
4988* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4989 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4990
4991* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4992
4993* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4994 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4995 have YP (aka NIS).
4996
4997* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4998 conventions.
4999
5000* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5001 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
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5003Version 1.08
5004
5005* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5006 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5007 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5008
5009* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5010 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5011
5012* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5013 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5014
5015* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5016
5017* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5018
5019* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5020 compatibility.
5021
5022* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5023 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5024 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5025
5026* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5027
5028* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5029 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5030 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5031
5032* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5033 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5034 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5035 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5036 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5037 on a block).
5038
5039* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5040 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5041 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5042 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5043 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5044 cross-compiler.
5045
5046* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5047 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5048\f
5049Version 1.07
5050
5051* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5052 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5053
5054* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5055 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5056 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5057
5058* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5059 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5060 address of the last character written.
5061
5062* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5063 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5064
5065* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5066 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5067
5068* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5069 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5070 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5071 you dereference this pointer.
5072
5073* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5074 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5075
5076* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5077 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5078 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5079 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5080
5081* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5082 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5083 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5084 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5085\f
5086Version 1.06
5087
5088* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5089 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5090 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5091 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5092 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5093
5094* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5095
5096* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5097
5098* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5099 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5100
5101* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5102 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5103
5104* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5105 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5106
5107* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5108 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5109 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5110 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5111 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5112
5113* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5114 to the error code in `errno'.
5115
5116* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5117 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5118 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5119 malloc'd string.
5120
5121* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5122 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5123 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5124
5125* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5126 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5128Version 1.05
5129
5130* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5131 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5132 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5133
5134* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5135 characters.
5136
5137* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5138 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5139
5140* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5141\f
5142Version 1.04
5143
5144* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5145 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5146 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5147 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5148
5149* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5150 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5151 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5152
5153* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5154 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5155
5156* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5157 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5158 made itself into a shared library.
5159
5160* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5161 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5162
5163* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5164 with limited length.
5165
5166* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5167
5168* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5169
5170* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5171
5172* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5173 function for traversing a directory tree.
5174
5175* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5176 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5177 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5178 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5179
5180* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5181 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5182
5183* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5184
5185* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5186 things to your strings.
5187
5188* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5189
5190* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5191 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5192 supporting those systems.
5193
5194* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5195 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5196 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5197 configuration files.
5198
5199* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5200 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5201
5202* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5203 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5204 in <strings.h>.)
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5205
5206* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5207 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5208 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5209 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5210 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5211 required storage is not available.
5212
5213* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5214 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5215
5216* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5217 latest files released from Berkeley.
5218\f
5219----------------------------------------------------------------------
5220Copyright information:
5221
09533208 5222Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5223
5224 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5225 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5226 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5227 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5228
5229 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5230 of this document, or of portions of it,
5231 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5232 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5233\f
5234Local variables:
5235version-control: never
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