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1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2Copyright (C) 1992-2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3See the end for copying conditions.
4
5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
7\f
8Version 2.42
9
10Major new features:
11
12* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
13 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
14 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
15 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
16
17 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
18 rsqrt.
19
20* On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
21
22* The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e.
23 uabs, ulabs, ullabs and uimaxabs, are now supported.
24
25* On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
26 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
27 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
28
29Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
30
31* The glibc.rtld.execstack now supports a compatibility mode to allow
32 programs that require an executable stack through dynamic loaded
33 shared libraries.
34
35* On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
36 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
37 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
38 with <termios.h>.
39
40Changes to build and runtime requirements:
41
42* GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
43
44* GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
45
46Security related changes:
47
48The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
49found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
50
51 [The release manager will add the list generated by
52 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
53
54The following bugs were resolved with this release:
55
56 [The release manager will add the list generated by
57 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
58\f
59Version 2.41
60
61Major new features:
62
63* Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
64 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
65 added:
66 $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
67
68 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
69 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
70
71 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
72
73* The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
74 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
75
76* In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
77 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
78 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
79 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
80 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
81
82* The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
83 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
84 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
85 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
86 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
87 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
88 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
89 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
90 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
91
92* On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
93 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
94 SCHED_DEADLINE.
95
96* The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
97 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
98
99* Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
100 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
101
102* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
103 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
104 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
105 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
106
107 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
108 sinpi, tanpi.
109
110* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
111 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
112 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
113 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
114 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
115 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
116
117* Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
118 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
119 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
120 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
121 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
122
123* A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
124 (mostly numerical) functions.
125
126* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
127 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
128 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
129 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
130 executable stacks.
131
132* Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
133 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
134 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
135 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
136 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
137 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
138 Linux kernels.
139
140* The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
141 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
142 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
143 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
144 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
145 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
146 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
147 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
148 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
149 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
150
151* Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
152 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
153 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
154 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
155
156* Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
157 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
158 has been added.
159
160* On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
161 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
162 function optimizations for Power10.
163
164* A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
165 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
166
167Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
168compatibility:
169
170* abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
171 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
172 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
173 the process execution.
174
175* dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
176 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
177 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
178 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
179 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
180 fail.
181
182* The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
183
184* The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
185
186Changes to build and runtime requirements:
187
188* On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
189 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
190 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
191
192* Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
193 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
194
195Security related changes:
196
197The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
198found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
199
200 GLIBC-SA-2025-0001:
201 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
202 (CVE-2025-0395)
203
204The following bugs were resolved with this release:
205
206 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
207 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
208 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
209 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
210 signal handler
211 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
212 /etc/resolv.conf
213 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
214 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
215 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
216 unoriented
217 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
218 due to a bug in undoing stealing
219 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
220 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
221 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
222 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
223 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
224 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
225 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
226 mode
227 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
228 hexadecimal subnormal
229 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
230 is unaligned
231 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
232 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
233 reason
234 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
235 two contexts.
236 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
237 work
238 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
239 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
240 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
241 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
242 _FORTIFY_SOURCE
243 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
244 correctly
245 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
246 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
247 unknown cookie.
248 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
249 are thread-safe
250 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
251 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
252 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
253 input is empty
254 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
255 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
256 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
257 older GCC
258 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
259 nan payload
260 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
261 output buffer is full
262 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
263 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
264 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
265 failure
266 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
267 link maps
268 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
269 after la_objclose calls
270 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
271 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
272 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
273 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
274 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
275 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
276 NAME_MAX limit
277 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
278 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
279 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
280 linux-gnu
281 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
282 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
283 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
284 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
285 stdio
286 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
287 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
288 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
289 pointer
290 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
291 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
292 84e7c46df
293 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
294 fails
295 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
296 mutex list
297 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
298 properly aligned
299 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
300 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
301 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
302 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
303 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
304 characters in scn_IT
305 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
306 10.2.1
307 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
308 year
309 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
310 strncpy-evex.S
311 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
312 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
313 GCC 10.2.1
314 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
315 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
316 long
317 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
318 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
319 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
320 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
321 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
322 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
323 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
324 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
325 created
326 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
327 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
328 uninitialized]
329 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
330 computation
331 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
332 [32492] libc: New test failures
333 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
334 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
335 file: Exec format error
336 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
337 to `stpcpy'
338 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
339 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
340 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
341\f
342Version 2.40
343
344Major new features:
345
346* The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
347 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
348 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
349 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
350
351* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
352 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
353 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
354 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
355 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
356 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
357
358* The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
359 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
360 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
361 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
362
363 - Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1.
364
365 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
366
367* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program
368 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
369 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
370 be a security feature.
371
372* On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
373 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
374
375* The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
376 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
377
378* Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
379 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
380
381* On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
382 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
383 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
384
385Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
386
387* Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
388 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
389 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
390 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
391 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
392 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
393 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
394 problems.
395
396* __rseq_size now denotes the size of the active rseq area (20 bytes
397 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
398
399Security related changes:
400
401The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
402found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
403
404 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
405 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
406 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
407
408 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
409 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
410
411 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
412 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
413
414 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
415 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
416 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
417
418 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
419 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
420 (CVE-2024-33602)
421
422The following bugs are resolved with this release:
423
424 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
425 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
426 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
427 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
428 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
429 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
430 are opened
431 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
432 linux-gnu
433 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
434 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
435 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
436 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
437 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
438 relocation
439 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
440 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
441 multi-arch version
442 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
443 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
444 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
445 doesn't work with test wrapper
446 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
447 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
448 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
449 in ld.so trampoline
450 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
451 saved registers
452 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
453 0 and zero size types
454 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
455 nor with "^# variable"
456 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
457 s390{,x}
458 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
459 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
460 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
461 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
462 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
463 larger than 34
464 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
465 resolv.conf reloading
466 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
467 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
468 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
469 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
470 wrong,
471 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
472 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
473 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
474 triggers segmentation fault
475 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
476 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
477 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
478 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
479 getrandom is not present
480 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
481 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
482 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
483 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
484 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
485 getconf
486 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
487 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
488 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
489 memory/storage conditions
490 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
491 cache insertion
492 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
493 allocation failure
494 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
495 strings
496 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
497 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
498 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
499 parse_tunables_string
500 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
501 but execve fails
502 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
503 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
504 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
505 backtrace_symbols returns
506 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
507 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
508 underscore
509 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
510 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
511 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
512 [31760] math: Missing math functions
513 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
514 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
515 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
516 symbols
517 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
518 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
519 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
520 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
521 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
522 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
523 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
524 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
525 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
526 avx5124fmaps)
527 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
528 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
529 libc.a
530 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
531 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
532 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
533 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
534 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
535 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
536 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
537 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
538 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
539 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
540 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
541 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
542 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
543 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
544 CPUs
545 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
546 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
547 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
548 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
549 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
550 correctly
551 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
552 correctly
553 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
554 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
555 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
556 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
557 intended
558 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
559\f
560Version 2.39
561
562Major new features:
563
564* A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
565 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
566 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
567
568* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
569 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
570
571* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
572 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
573 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
574 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
575
576* On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
577 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
578 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
579 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
580 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
581
582* On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
583 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
584 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
585 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
586 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
587 posix_spawn interface.
588
589* On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
590 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
591 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
592
593* scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
594 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
595 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
596 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
597 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
598 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
599
600* A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
601 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
602 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
603 malloc).
604
605* The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
606 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
607 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
608 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
609 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
610 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
611 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
612 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
613
614* On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
615 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
616 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
617 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
618 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
619 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
620
621Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
622
623* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
624 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
625 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
626
627* libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
628 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
629 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
630 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
631 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
632 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
633 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
634
635 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
636 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
637 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
638 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
639
640 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
641 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
642 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
643 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
644 simplified.
645
646* The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
647 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
648 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
649 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
650 initial-exec TLS.
651
652* The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
653
654Changes to build and runtime requirements:
655
656* Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
657 instructions.
658
659Security related changes:
660
661The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
662found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
663
664 GLIBC-SA-2023-0002:
665 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
666
667 GLIBC-SA-2023-0003:
668 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
669
670 GLIBC-SA-2023-0004:
671 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
672 (CVE-2023-4911)
673
674 GLIBC-SA-2024-0001:
675 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
676
677 GLIBC-SA-2024-0002:
678 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
679
680 GLIBC-SA-2024-0003:
681 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
682
683 GLIBC-SA-2024-0004:
684 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
685 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
686
687 GLIBC-SA-2024-0005:
688 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
689
690 GLIBC-SA-2024-0006:
691 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
692 (CVE-2024-33600)
693
694 GLIBC-SA-2024-0007:
695 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
696 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
697
698 GLIBC-SA-2024-0008:
699 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
700 (CVE-2024-33602)
701
702The following bugs are resolved with this release:
703
704 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
705 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
706 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
707 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
708 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
709 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
710 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
711 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
712 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
713 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
714 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
715 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
716 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
717 en_NZ and en_AU
718 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
719 nn_NO
720 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
721 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
722 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
723 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
724 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
725 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
726 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
727 __sparcv9
728 [27601] localedata: License information update in
729 localedata/locales/ast_ES
730 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
731 n_cs_precedes
732 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
733 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
734 following dlclose with unused TLS
735 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
736 week should be Monday
737 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
738 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
739 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
740 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
741 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
742 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
743 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
744 smileys
745 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
746 encoding name was wrong
747 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
748 -fexceptions
749 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
750 of flagging an error
751 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
752 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
753 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
754 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
755 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
756 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
757 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
758 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
759 backwards
760 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
761 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
762 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
763 (CVE-2023-4527)
764 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
765 (CVE-2023-4806)
766 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
767 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
768 (CVE-2023-5156)
769 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
770 are open
771 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
772 threads
773 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
774 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
775 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
776 separator
777 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
778 handling
779 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
780 ppc, ppc64, ppc64le
781 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
782 i386
783 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
784 i386, x86_64
785 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
786 flags on alpha
787 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
788 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
789 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
790 name
791 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
792 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
793 regression
794 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
795 'char *name;'
796 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
797 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
798 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
799 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
800 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
801 bug 17522 fix
802 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
803 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
804 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
805 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
806 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
807 uz_UZ
808 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
809 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
810 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
811 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
812 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
813 same as the full month names
814 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
815 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
816 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
817 sparcv9
818 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
819\f
820Version 2.38
821
822Major new features:
823
824* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
825 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
826 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
827 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
828 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
829 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
830 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
831 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
832 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
833 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
834 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
835
836* PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
837 <inttypes.h>.
838
839* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
840 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
841 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
842 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
843 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
844 specified in draft ISO C2X.
845
846* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
847 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
848
849* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
850 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
851
852 - x86_64-gnu
853
854* Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
855 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
856 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
857 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
858 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
859
860* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
861 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
862
863* A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
864 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
865 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
866 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
867 original behavior unchanged.
868
869Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
870
871* libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
872 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
873 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
874 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
875
876* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
877 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
878 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
879 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
880 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
881 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
882
883* The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
884 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
885 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
886
887* The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
888 feature is now always enabled.
889
890Changes to build and runtime requirements:
891
892* Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
893 ACLE.
894
895Security related changes:
896
897 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
898 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
899 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
900 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
901 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
902 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
903
904The following bugs are resolved with this release:
905
906 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
907 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
908 threads and stdio
909 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
910 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
911 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
912 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
913 intXX_t
914 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
915 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
916 argument
917 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
918 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
919 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
920 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
921 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
922 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
923 systems
924 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
925 symlink for libraries without soname
926 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
927 Clang
928 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
929 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
930 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
931 profiling data correctly
932 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
933 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
934 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
935 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
936 unnecessarily
937 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
938 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
939 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
940 early startup
941 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
942 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
943 on clang
944 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
945 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
946 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
947\f
948Version 2.37
949
950Major new features:
951
952* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
953 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
954 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
955 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
956
957Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
958
959* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
960 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
961 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
962 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
963
964Security related changes:
965
966 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
967 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
968 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
969 portion of the contents of the heap.
970
971The following bugs are resolved with this release:
972
973 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
974 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
975 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
976 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
977 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
978 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
979 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
980 redirection headers
981 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
982 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
983 first if in a cycle
984 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
985 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
986 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
987 gethostbyname and other functions
988 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
989 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
990 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
991 wrong family
992 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
993 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
994 failed!
995 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
996 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
997 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
998 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
999 segfault on alpha
1000 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1001 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1002 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1003 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1004 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1005 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1006 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1007 reuses namespace
1008 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1009 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1010 futexes on qemu-user
1011 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1012 printed
1013 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1014 whitespace
1015 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1016 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1017 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1018 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1019 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1020 file support
1021 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1022 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1023 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1024 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1025 cache is enabled
1026 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1027 BMI2 instructions
1028 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1029 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1030 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1031 platforms
1032 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1033 optimizations
1034 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1035 thousands grouping
1036 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1037 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1038 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1039 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1040 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1041 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1042 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1043 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1044 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1045 coincides with offset change
1046 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1047 length in fortify mode
1048\f
1049Version 2.36
1050
1051Major new features:
1052
1053* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
1054 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1055 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1056 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1057 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1058 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
1059
1060* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
1061 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
1062 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
1063
1064* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
1065 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1066 by the pidfd.
1067
1068* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
1069 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1070 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1071 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
1072
1073* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
1074 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1075 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1076 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1077 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1078 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1079 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1080 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1081 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1082 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1083 validation by applications.
1084
1085* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
1086 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1087 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1088 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
1089 with namespaces.
1090
1091* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
1092 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1093 unpredictable output.
1094
1095* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
1096 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1097 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1098 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1099 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1100 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1101 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1102 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1103
1104* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
1105 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
1106 quality randomness from the kernel.
1107
1108* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1109 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1110 ABI is supported:
1111
1112 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
1113
1114 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
1115
1116Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1117
1118* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1119 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1120 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1121
1122* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
1123 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1124 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1125 when libc.so is issued directly.
1126
1127* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
1128
1129The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1130
1131 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
1132 return different result with versioned "foo"
1133 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1134 mess
1135 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1136 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1137 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1138 calls dlclose
1139 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1140 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1141 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1142 enforced
1143 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1144 deadlock
1145 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1146 format
1147 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1148 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1149 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1150 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1151 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1152 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1153 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1154 other standards.
1155 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1156 from the stack
1157 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1158 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1159 (breaks test isolation)
1160 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1161 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1162 __convert_scm_timestamps
1163 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1164 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1165 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1166 missing libraries
1167 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
1168 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
1169 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1170 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1171 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1172 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1173 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1174 SUCCESS=MERGE
1175 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1176 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1177 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1178 clobbers errno
1179 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1180 bench.
1181 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1182 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1183 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1184 /proc/self/fd/
1185 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1186 on ENOENT and EACCES
1187 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1188 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1189 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1190 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1191 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1192 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1193 is promoted to global scope
1194 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1195 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1196 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1197 broke ld.so
1198 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1199 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
1200 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1201 failure
1202 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1203 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1204 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1205 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1206 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1207 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1208 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1209 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1210 value for filling after \0
1211 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1212 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1213 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1214 aware
1215 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1216 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1217 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1218 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1219 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1220 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1221 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1222 line 184
1223 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1224 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1225 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1226 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1227 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1228 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1229 missing on microblaze with largefile
1230\f
1231Version 2.35
1232
1233Major new features:
1234
1235* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1236 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1237 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1238
1239* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
1240 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
1241
1242* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
1243 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1244 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1245 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1246 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1247 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1248 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1249 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1250 glibc, and must be installed.
1251
1252* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
1253 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1254 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1255
1256 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1257 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1258
1259 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1260 fMxfmafNx functions.
1261
1262* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1263 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1264 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1265 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1266 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1267 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1268
1269* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1270 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1271 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1272 M_SQRT1_2f.
1273
1274* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1275 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1276
1277* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1278 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1279
1280* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1281
1282* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1283 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1284 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1285
1286* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1287 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1288 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1289 object dependency cases.
1290
1291* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1292 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1293 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1294 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
1295
1296* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1297 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1298 return value is only used for its boolean status.
1299
1300* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1301 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1302 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1303 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1304 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1305 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1306 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1307 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1308 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1309 Restartable Sequences.
1310
1311* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1312 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
1313
1314* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1315 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1316 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1317 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1318 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1319 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1320 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1321 configuration.
1322
1323* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
1324 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
1325 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1326 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1327 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1328 huge pages.
1329
1330* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1331 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1332
1333* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1334 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1335 address.
1336
1337* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1338 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1339 ABI is supported:
1340
1341 - or1k-linux-gnu
1342
1343 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1344 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1345
1346* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1347 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1348 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1349 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1350 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
1351
1352* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1353 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
1354
1355* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1356 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1357 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
1358
1359* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1360 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1361 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1362 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1363 bounds).
1364
1365* The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
1366 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1367
1368Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1369
1370* On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1371 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1372 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
1373
1374* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1375 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1376
1377 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1378 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1379
1380 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
1381
1382* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1383
1384* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1385 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1386 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
1387
1388* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1389 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1390 catching coredumps and backtraces.
1391
1392* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1393 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1394 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1395
1396* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1397 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1398 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
1399
1400* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1401 support prelink PIE binaries.
1402
1403Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1404
1405* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1406 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
1407 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
1408 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
1409 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
1410
1411* The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
1412 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
1413 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
1414 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
1415
1416Security related changes:
1417
1418 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1419 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1420 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
1421
1422 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1423 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1424
1425 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1426 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1427 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1428
1429 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1430 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1431 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1432 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1433 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1434
1435The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1436
1437 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1438 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1439 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1440 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1441 many dsos
1442 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1443 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1444 degradation
1445 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1446 loaded with dlmopen
1447 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1448 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1449 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1450 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1451 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1452 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1453 (CVE-2022-23219)
1454 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1455 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1456 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1457 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1458 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1459 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1460 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1461 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1462 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1463 --enable-initfini-array
1464 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1465 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1466 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1467 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1468 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1469 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1470 empty
1471 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1472 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1473 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1474 built with ld.lld
1475 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1476 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1477 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1478 2.34
1479 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1480 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1481 robustness
1482 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1483 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1484 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1485 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
1486 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1487 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1488 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1489 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1490 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1491 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1492 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1493 file
1494 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1495 only dynamic section
1496 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1497 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1498 recvmsg()
1499 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1500 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1501 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1502 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1503 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1504 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1505 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1506 C2X
1507 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1508 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1509 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1510 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1511 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1512 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1513 globalmod1.so
1514 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1515 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1516 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1517 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1518 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1519 spurious NUL character on state reset
1520 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1521 incorrect
1522 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1523 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1524 execution test
1525 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1526 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1527 hppa
1528 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1529 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1530 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1531 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1532 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1533 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1534 crashes
1535 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1536 binutils changes
1537 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1538 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1539 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1540 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1541 is not useful
1542 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1543 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1544 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1545 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1546 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1547 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1548 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1549 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1550 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1551 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1552 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1553 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1554 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1555 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1556 (CVE-2022-23218)
1557 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1558 (CVE-2021-3999)
1559 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1560 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1561 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1562 in Systemtap probes
1563 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1564 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1565 x86-64-baseline
1566 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1567 with no closing ]
1568 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1569 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1570 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1571
1572\f
1573Version 2.34
1574
1575Major new features:
1576
1577* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1578 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1579 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1580 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1581 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1582 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1583 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1584 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1585 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1586 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1587 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1588 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1589 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1590 potentially exposing application bugs.
1591
1592* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1593 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1594 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1595 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1596
1597* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1598 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1599 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1600 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1601 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1602 Arm SVE.
1603
1604* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1605 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1606 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1607
1608* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1609 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1610 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1611 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1612
1613* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1614
1615* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1616 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1617 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1618 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1619 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1620
1621* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1622 --disable-scv configure option.
1623
1624* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1625 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1626 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1627 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1628 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1629 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1630 version of 5.1.
1631
1632* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1633 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1634 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1635 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1636 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1637 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1638 that directory.
1639
1640* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1641 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1642
1643* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1644 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1645 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1646 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1647 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1648 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1649 is currently a GNU extension.
1650
1651* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1652 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1653
1654* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1655 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1656 although it is also present in other systems.
1657
1658* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1659 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1660 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1661 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1662
1663* When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1664 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1665 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1666
1667Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1668
1669* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1670 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1671 instead.
1672
1673* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1674 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1675 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1676
1677* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1678 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1679 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1680
1681* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1682 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1683
1684* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1685
1686* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1687 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1688 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1689 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1690 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1691 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1692 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1693 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1694 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1695 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1696 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1697
1698* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1699 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1700 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1701 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1702 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1703 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1704 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1705 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1706
1707* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1708 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1709 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1710 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1711 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1712 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1713 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1714
1715* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1716 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1717 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1718 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1719 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1720 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1721 upgrade or downgrade process.
1722
1723* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1724 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1725 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1726
1727* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1728 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1729 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1730 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1731
1732* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1733 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1734 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1735 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1736 this functionality back.
1737
1738* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1739 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1740 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1741 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1742
1743* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1744 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1745 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1746 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1747 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1748 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1749 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1750 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1751 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1752
1753Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1754
1755* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1756 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1757 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1758 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1759
1760Security related changes:
1761
1762 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1763 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1764 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1765 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1766
1767 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1768 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1769 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1770
1771 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1772 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1773 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1774
1775The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1776
1777 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1778 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1779 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1780 given integer (closefrom)
1781 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1782 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1783 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1784 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1785 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1786 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1787 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1788 random thread
1789 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1790 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1791 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1792 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1793 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1794 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1795 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1796 manual is incorrect
1797 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1798 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1799 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1800 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1801 pthread_create and dlopen
1802 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1803 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1804 when non-root user changes priority
1805 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1806 dlopen
1807 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1808 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1809 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1810 ordered correctly
1811 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1812 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1813 data.
1814 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1815 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1816 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1817 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1818 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1819 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1820 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1821 the right free implementation
1822 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1823 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1824 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1825 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1826 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1827 protector=all)
1828 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1829 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1830 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1831 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1832 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1833 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1834 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1835 uninitialized
1836 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1837 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1838 system calls
1839 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1840 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1841 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1842 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1843 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1844 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1845 deployments
1846 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1847 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1848 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1849 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1850 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1851 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1852 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1853 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1854 is present
1855 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1856 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1857 protector=all
1858 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1859 information for the current directory
1860 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1861 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1862 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1863 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1864 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1865 containers
1866 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1867 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1868 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1869 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1870 INT_MAX
1871 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1872 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1873 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1874 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1875 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1876 tries resolving them lazily
1877 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1878 libthread_db
1879 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1880 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1881 argument
1882 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1883 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1884 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1885 not set ENOMEM
1886 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1887 randomization
1888 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1889 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1890 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1891 IS_ERR_VALUE
1892 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1893 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1894 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1895 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1896 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1897 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1898 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1899 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1900 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1901 with n >= 0x80000000
1902 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1903 thread never allocated anything
1904 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1905 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1906 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1907 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1908 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1909 on older kernels
1910 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1911 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1912 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1913 AMD64 cpus
1914 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1915 terminator
1916
1917\f
1918Version 2.33
1919
1920Major new features:
1921
1922* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1923 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1924 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1925
1926* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1927 to change argv[0] string.
1928
1929* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1930 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1931 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1932 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1933 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1934 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1935 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1936 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1937 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1938
1939* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1940 information and library search path diagnostics.
1941
1942* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1943 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1944 larger than fit in an integer.
1945
1946* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1947
1948* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1949 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1950
1951 - rv32imac ilp32
1952 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1953 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1954
1955 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1956 2.28.
1957
1958* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1959 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1960 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1961 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1962 fortification.
1963
1964Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1965
1966* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1967 mallinfo2 instead.
1968
1969* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1970 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1971 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1972
1973* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1974 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1975 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1976 prlimit.
1977
1978* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1979 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1980 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1981
1982* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1983 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1984 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1985 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1986 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1987 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1988
1989* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1990 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1991 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1992 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1993 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1994 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1995 loaded.
1996
1997Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1998
1999* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
2000 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
2001 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
2002 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
2003 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2004 perform any adjustments.
2005
2006* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2007 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2008 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2009 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
2010
2011* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
2012
2013Security related changes:
2014
2015 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
2016 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
2017 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
2018 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2019 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
2020
2021 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2022 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2023 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
2024
2025 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
2026 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
2027
2028 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
2029 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
2030
2031The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2032
2033 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
2034 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2035 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2036 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2037 AT_EACCESS
2038 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
2039 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
2040 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
2041 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2042 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2043 with GCC
2044 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2045 stack-protector=all
2046 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2047 cases
2048 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2049 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2050 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2051 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2052 changing gnuc version
2053 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2054 incorrect
2055 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2056 bits
2057 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2058 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2059 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2060 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2061 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
2062 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
2063 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
2064 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2065 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2066 too much stack space
2067 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2068 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2069 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2070 with optimization.
2071 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2072 anymore
2073 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2074 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2075 non-FMA4 system
2076 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2077 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2078 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2079 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2080 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2081 getaddrinfo
2082 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2083 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2084 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2085 fault
2086 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2087 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2088 at the end of a memory mapping
2089 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2090 by the caller to the kernel
2091 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2092 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2093 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2094 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2095 monotonic clocks
2096 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2097 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2098 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2099 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2100 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2101 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2102 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2103 one element
2104 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2105 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2106 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2107 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2108 lazy bound
2109 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2110 PI mutexes
2111 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2112 not safe
2113 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2114 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2115 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2116 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2117 platform
2118 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2119 startup code
2120 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2121 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2122 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2123 protected
2124 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2125 only since 2.31
2126 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2127 locked
2128 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2129 aligned
2130 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2131 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2132 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2133 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2134 detection logic
2135 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2136 pclose(3))
2137 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2138 setup
2139 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2140 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2141 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2142 work
2143 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2144 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2145 [27177] dynamic-link:
2146 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2147 work
2148 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2149 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2150 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2151 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
2152
2153\f
2154Version 2.32
2155
2156Major new features:
2157
2158* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2159 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
2160 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2161
2162* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
2163
2164* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2165 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2166 Three ABIs are supported:
2167
2168 - arc-linux-gnu
2169 - arc-linux-gnuhf
2170 - arceb-linux-gnu
2171
2172 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
2173 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2174
2175* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2176 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2177
2178* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
2179 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
2180 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2181 this option.
2182
2183* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2184 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2185 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2186
2187* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
2188 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2189 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2190
2191* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2192 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2193 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2194 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2195 libpthread.
2196
2197* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
2198 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2199 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2200 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
2201 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2202 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2203
2204 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2205 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2206
2207* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
2208 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2209 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
2210 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2211 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2212 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2213
2214 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2215 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2216
2217* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2218 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
2219 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2220 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2221 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
2222 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2223 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2224 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2225 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2226 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2227 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2228 BTI compatible.
2229
2230Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2231
2232* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2233 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2234 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2235 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2236 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2237 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2238 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2239
2240* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2241 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2242 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2243 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2244 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2245 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2246 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
2247 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
2248 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2249
2250* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2251 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2252 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2253 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2254 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
2255
2256* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2257 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2258 was not declared in any header file.
2259
2260* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2261 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2262 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2263 sigaction functions instead.
2264
2265* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2266 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2267
2268* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2269 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2270 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2271 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2272 strsignal instead.
2273
2274* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2275 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2276 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
2277 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2278 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2279
2280* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2281 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2282 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2283 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2284
2285* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2286 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2287 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2288 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2289 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2290 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2291 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2292
2293* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2294 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2295 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2296 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2297 flavor of secure RPC.)
2298
2299* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2300 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2301 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2302 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2303 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2304 object, to enable the hooks.
2305
2306* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2307 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2308 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2309 LDAP.
2310
2311Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2312
2313* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2314 long double redirects.
2315
2316Security related changes:
2317
2318 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2319 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2320 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2321
2322 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2323 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2324 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
2325
2326 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2327 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2328
2329 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2330 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2331 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2332 TALOS-2020-1019).
2333
2334The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2335
2336 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2337 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2338 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2339 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2340 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2341 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2342 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2343 filtee has constructor
2344 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2345 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2346 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2347 character entities for infinity & pi
2348 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2349 segfaults in applications
2350 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
2351 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
2352 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2353 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2354 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2355 function with -mlong-double-64
2356 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2357 binding
2358 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2359 ld.so.cache
2360 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2361 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2362 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2363 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2364 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2365 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2366 linker
2367 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2368 dynamically loaded dsos
2369 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2370 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2371 access
2372 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2373 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2374 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2375 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2376 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2377 stale configuration forever
2378 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2379 (CVE-2020-10029)
2380 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2381 defaults to PIE
2382 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2383 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2384 (CVE-2020-6096)
2385 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2386 on 32 bit and old kernel
2387 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2388 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2389 Occitan
2390 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2391 amount of sigset_t bytes
2392 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2393 strings
2394 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2395 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2396 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2397 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2398 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2399 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2400 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2401 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2402 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2403 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2404 size_t
2405 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2406 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2407 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2408 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2409 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2410 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2411 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2412 cpu=power9
2413 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2414 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2415 segfault
2416 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2417 exiting detached thread
2418 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2419 for x32
2420 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2421 ERANGE
2422 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2423 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2424 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2425 dependencies in audit mode
2426 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2427 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2428 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2429 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2430 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2431 input
2432 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2433 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2434 preserve r2
2435 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2436 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2437 variables
2438 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2439 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2440 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2441 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2442 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2443 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2444 corruption in memset
2445
2446\f
2447Version 2.31
2448
2449Major new features:
2450
2451* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2452 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2453 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2454 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2455 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2456 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
2457
2458* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2459 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2460 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2461 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2462
2463* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
2464 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
2465 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2466
2467* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2468
2469* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2470 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2471 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2472 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2473 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2474 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2475 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2476 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2477
2478Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2479
2480* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2481 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2482 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2483 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2484 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2485 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
2486
2487* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
2488 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2489 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2490
2491* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2492 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2493 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2494 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2495
2496* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2497 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2498 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2499 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2500 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2501 made this no longer practical.
2502
2503 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2504 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2505 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2506 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2507 release.)
2508
2509 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2510 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2511 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2512
2513 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2514 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2515 using clock_gettime instead.
2516
2517* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2518 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2519 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2520 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2521 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2522
2523 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2524 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2525 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2526 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2527
2528 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2529 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2530 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2531 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2532 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2533 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2534
2535 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2536 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2537 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2538 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2539 offset API.
2540
2541* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2542 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2543 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2544
2545 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2546 configurations.
2547
2548* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2549 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2550 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2551 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2552 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2553
2554* For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2555 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2556 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2557 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2558 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2559 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2560 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2561 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2562
2563 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2564 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2565
2566* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2567 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2568 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2569 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2570 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2571 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2572
2573Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2574
2575* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2576 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2577 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2578
2579* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2580 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2581 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2582
2583Security related changes:
2584
2585 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2586 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2587
2588 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2589 environment variable during program execution after a security
2590 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2591 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2592 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2593
2594The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2595
2596 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2597 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2598 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2599 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2600 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2601 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2602 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2603 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2604 linking failure
2605 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2606 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2607 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2608 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2609 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2610 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2611 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2612 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2613 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2614 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2615 7408-2005
2616 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2617 with localedef
2618 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2619 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2620 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2621 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2622 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2623 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2624 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2625 utmp entries
2626 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2627 ABSOLUTE ABI
2628 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2629 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2630 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2631 (stringop-overflow error)
2632 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2633 functions other can lead to crashes
2634 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2635 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2636 unconditionally
2637 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2638 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2639 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2640 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2641 still can fail with an error
2642 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2643 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2644 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2645 initialized correctly
2646 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2647 -frewrite-includes
2648 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2649 value to an unsigned
2650 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2651 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2652 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2653 protection
2654 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2655 ifunc variant.
2656 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2657 al. for Clang++
2658 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2659 (Slovenian)
2660 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2661 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2662 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2663 with -std=c11
2664 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2665 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2666 part
2667 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2668 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2669 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2670 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2671 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2672 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2673
2674\f
2675Version 2.30
2676
2677Major new features:
2678
2679* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2680 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2681 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2682
2683* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2684 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2685
2686* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2687 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2688 to the callback function.
2689
2690* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2691
2692* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2693 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2694 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
2695
2696* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2697
2698* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2699 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2700 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2701 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2702 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2703
2704* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2705 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2706 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2707 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2708 link time reference, is gone.
2709
2710* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2711 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2712 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2713 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2714 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2715 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2716 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2717 the clock choice at initialization time).
2718
2719* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2720 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2721 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2722
2723Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2724
2725* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2726 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2727 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2728 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2729 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2730 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2731 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2732 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2733 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2734
2735* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2736 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2737 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2738 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2739 since glibc 2.17.
2740
2741* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2742 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2743
2744* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2745 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2746
2747* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2748 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2749
2750* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2751 BIND_NOW flag.
2752
2753* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2754 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2755 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2756
2757* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2758 header have been removed.
2759
2760* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2761 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2762 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2763 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2764
2765Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2766
2767* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2768
2769 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2770 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2771
2772Security related changes:
2773
2774 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2775 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2776 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2777 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2778 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2779 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2780 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2781
2782 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2783 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2784 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2785
2786The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2787
2788 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2789 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2790 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2791 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2792 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2793 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2794 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2795 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2796 invalid input drops valid char
2797 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2798 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2799 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2800 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2801 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2802 malloc.h.
2803 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2804 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2805 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2806 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2807 functions
2808 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2809 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2810 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2811 for long double = double
2812 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2813 long double = double
2814 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2815 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2816 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2817 long timeouts
2818 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2819 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2820 checking for NULL.
2821 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2822 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2823 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2824 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2825 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2826 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2827 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2828 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2829 not the default "nor"
2830 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2831 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2832 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2833 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2834 compiler barriers.
2835 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2836 unnecessary librt dependencies
2837 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2838 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2839 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2840 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2841 unsorted chunk
2842 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2843 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2844 to R_SPARC_H44
2845 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2846 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2847 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2848 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2849 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2850 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2851 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2852 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2853 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2854 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2855 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2856 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2857 was not used
2858 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2859 tests
2860 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2861 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2862 time_t changes
2863 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2864 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2865 kernels and break testing
2866 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2867 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2868 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2869 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2870 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2871 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2872 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2873 -O3 -march=skylake
2874 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2875 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2876 crash
2877 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2878 linked glibc
2879 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2880 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2881 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2882 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2883 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2884 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2885 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2886 always implemented in the same library
2887 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2888 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2889 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2890 testroot
2891
2892\f
2893Version 2.29
2894
2895Major new features:
2896
2897* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2898 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2899
2900* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2901 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2902 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2903 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2904 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2905 configured location.
2906
2907* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2908
2909* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2910 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2911
2912* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2913 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2914 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2915 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2916 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2917 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2918 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2919 process actually does not use HTM).
2920
2921* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2922 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2923 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2924 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2925 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2926 of the same name.
2927
2928* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2929 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2930 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2931 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2932 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2933
2934* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2935 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2936 supported:
2937 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2938 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2939
2940* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2941 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2942 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2943 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2944 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2945 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2946 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2947
2948* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2949 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2950 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2951
2952Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2953
2954* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2955 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2956
2957* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2958 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2959 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2960 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2961
2962* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2963 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2964 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2965 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2966 structures.
2967
2968* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2969 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2970 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2971 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2972 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2973 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2974
2975 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2976 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2977 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2978 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2979 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2980
2981 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2982 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2983 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2984
2985Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2986
2987* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2988
2989* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2990 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2991
2992 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2993 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2994
2995Security related changes:
2996
2997 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2998 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2999 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
3000
3001 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3002 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3003 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3004 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3005 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3006
3007 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3008 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3009 or command injection issues in applications.
3010
3011The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3012
3013 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3014 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3015 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3016 thousands
3017 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3018 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3019 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3020 --param options)
3021 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3022 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3023 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3024 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3025 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3026 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3027 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3028 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3029 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3030 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3031 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3032 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3033 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3034 pointer argument is non-NULL
3035 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3036 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3037 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3038 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3039 multithreads call popen
3040 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3041 and pthread_create fails.
3042 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3043 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3044 constructor
3045 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3046 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3047 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3048 source tree
3049 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3050 float
3051 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3052 one error
3053 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3054 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3055 linker
3056 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3057 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3058 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3059 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3060 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3061 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3062 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3063 filesystems
3064 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3065 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3066 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3067 functions
3068 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3069 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3070 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3071 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3072 have wrong type
3073 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3074 wrong type
3075 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3076 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3077 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3078 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3079 threads
3080 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3081 start.S
3082 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3083 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3084 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3085 powerpc64le
3086 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3087 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3088 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3089 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3090 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3091 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3092 strftime
3093 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3094 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3095 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3096 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3097 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3098 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3099 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3100 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3101 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3102 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3103 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3104 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3105 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3106 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3107 tcache size
3108 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3109 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3110 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3111 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3112 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3113 (CVE-2018-19591)
3114 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3115 nearest rounding mode
3116 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3117 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3118 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3119 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3120 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3121 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3122 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3123 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3124 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3125 error
3126 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3127 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3128 using GCC 8
3129 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3130 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3131 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3132 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3133 ppc64le
3134 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3135 expected result
3136 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3137 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
3138 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3139 sigaltstack
3140 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3141 answers will be rejected)
3142 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
3143
3144\f
3145Version 2.28
3146
3147Major new features:
3148
3149* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3150 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3151 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3152 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3153 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3154 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3155 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3156 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3157 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3158 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3159 archive or binary locales.
3160
3161* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3162 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3163 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3164 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3165 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3166 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3167 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3168 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
3169 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3170 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3171 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3172 validated for i686.
3173
3174* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3175 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3176 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3177 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3178 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3179 field) to indicate such support is required.
3180
3181* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3182 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3183 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3184
3185* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3186 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3187
3188 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3189 fMxaddfNx functions.
3190
3191 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3192 fMxsubfNx functions.
3193
3194 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3195 fMxmulfNx functions.
3196
3197 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3198 fMxdivfNx functions.
3199
3200* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
3201 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
3202 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
3203 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3204 and Kashubian.
3205
3206* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
3207 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
3208
3209* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3210 patches.
3211
3212* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3213 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3214 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3215 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3216 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3217 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3218 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3219 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3220
3221* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3222 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3223 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3224 the fstatat64 function.
3225
3226* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3227 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3228 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3229 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3230 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3231 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3232 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3233 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3234 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3235
3236* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3237 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3238 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3239 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3240 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3241 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3242 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3243 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3244 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3245 results in a load failure now.
3246
3247* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3248 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3249 <threads.h>:
3250
3251 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3252 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3253
3254 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3255 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3256
3257 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3258
3259 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3260 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3261
3262 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3263
3264 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
3265
3266Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3267
3268* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3269 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3270 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3271
3272* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3273 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3274 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3275 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3276 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3277 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3278
3279* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3280 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3281 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3282 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3283 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3284 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3285 (Bug #1190.)
3286
3287* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3288 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3289 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3290 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3291 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3292 further explanation.
3293
3294 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3295 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3296 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
3297
3298* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3299
3300* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3301 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3302 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3303
3304* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3305 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3306 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3307 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3308
3309* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3310 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3311 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3312 for this function instead.
3313
3314* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3315 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3316 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3317
3318* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3319 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3320 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3321 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3322
3323* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3324 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3325 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3326 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3327 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3328
3329* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3330 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3331 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3332 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3333 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3334 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3335 such as libgcrypt.
3336
3337* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3338 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3339 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3340 enabled.
3341
3342* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3343 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3344 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3345
3346* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3347 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3348 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3349 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3350 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3351 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3352
3353 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3354 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3355 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3356 behavior in a future release.
3357
3358Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3359
3360 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
3361
3362Security related changes:
3363
3364 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3365 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3366 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3367 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
3368
3369 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3370 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3371
3372 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3373 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3374 Izbyshev.
3375
3376 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3377 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3378 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3379
3380The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3381
3382 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3383 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3384 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3385 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3386 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3387 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3388 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3389 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3390 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3391 14651
3392 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3393 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3394 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3395 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3396 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3397 conversion is given
3398 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3399 date
3400 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3401 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3402 scope with -O1 and higher
3403 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3404 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3405 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3406 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3407 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3408 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3409 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3410 horrible machine code)
3411 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3412 last constant.
3413 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3414 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3415 symbols
3416 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3417 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3418 defined
3419 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3420 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3421 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3422 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3423 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3424 fpscr.c'
3425 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3426 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3427 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3428 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3429 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3430 the base address
3431 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3432 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3433 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3434 open_verify
3435 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3436 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3437 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3438 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3439 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3440 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3441 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3442 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3443 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3444 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3445 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3446 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3447 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3448 dlopen
3449 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3450 AT_SECURE=1
3451 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3452 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3453 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3454 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3455 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3456 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3457 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3458 for Spanish with CLDR
3459 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3460 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3461 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3462 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3463 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3464 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3465 es_BO
3466 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3467 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
3468 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3469 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3470 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3471 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3472 dlopen failures
3473 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3474 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3475 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3476 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3477 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3478 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3479 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3480 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3481 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3482 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3483 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3484 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3485 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3486 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3487 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3488 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3489 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3490 makecontext
3491 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3492 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3493 required
3494 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3495 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3496 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3497 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3498 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3499 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3500 disabled
3501 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3502 failure
3503 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3504 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3505 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3506 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3507 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3508 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3509 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3510 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3511 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3512 and libc build with -Os)
3513 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3514 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3515 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3516 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3517 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3518 that changes /etc/passwd
3519 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3520 (CVE-2018-11237)
3521 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3522 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3523 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3524 posix/regcomp.c
3525 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3526 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3527 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3528 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3529 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3530 AT_SECURE
3531 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3532 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3533 parser.c
3534 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3535 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3536 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3537 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3538 directed rounding
3539 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3540 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3541 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3542 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3543 lookup
3544 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3545 interposition
3546 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3547 DSO boundaries.
3548 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3549 <linux/time.h>
3550 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3551 checking
3552 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3553 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3554 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3555 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3556 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3557 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3558 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3559 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3560 processors
3561 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3562
3563\f
3564Version 2.27
3565
3566Major new features:
3567
3568* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3569 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3570 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3571 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3572 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3573 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3574 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3575 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3576 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3577
3578* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3579 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3580 H.J. Lu from Intel.
3581
3582* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3583
3584* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3585
3586* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3587 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3588 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3589 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3590 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3591 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3592 from a security and performance perspective.
3593
3594* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3595 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3596 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3597 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3598
3599* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3600 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3601 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3602 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3603 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3604
3605* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3606 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3607 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3608 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3609 _Float128.
3610
3611* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3612 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3613 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3614
3615* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3616
3617* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3618 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3619 pkey_get.
3620
3621* The copy_file_range function was added.
3622
3623* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3624
3625* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3626 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3627 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3628
3629* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3630 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3631 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3632 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3633 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3634 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3635 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3636
3637 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3638 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3639 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3640 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3641 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3642 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3643 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3644
3645 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3646 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3647 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3648 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3649 respectively.
3650
3651 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3652 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3653 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3654 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3655
3656 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3657 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3658 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3659
3660 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3661 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3662 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3663
3664* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3665 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3666 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3667
3668 - rv64imac lp64
3669 - rv64imafdc lp64
3670 - rv64imafdc lp64d
3671
3672Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3673
3674* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3675 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3676 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3677 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3678 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3679 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3680 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3681 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3682 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3683 fix this.
3684
3685* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3686 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3687 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3688
3689* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3690 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3691 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3692 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3693 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3694 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3695 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3696 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3697 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3698 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3699 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3700 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3701 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3702 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3703 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3704 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3705 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3706 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3707 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3708 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3709 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3710 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3711 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3712 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3713 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3714 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3715
3716* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3717 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3718
3719* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3720 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3721 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3722 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3723 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3724 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3725 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3726
3727* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3728 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3729 exp10l for these functions instead.
3730
3731* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3732 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3733 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3734
3735* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3736 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3737 ignored.
3738
3739* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3740 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3741 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3742 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3743
3744* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3745 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3746
3747* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3748 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3749
3750* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3751 programs.
3752
3753* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3754
3755* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3756 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3757 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3758 instead.
3759
3760 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3761 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3762 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3763 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3764 use, but predates the bits convention.
3765
3766Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3767
3768* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3769 subdirectory.
3770
3771Security related changes:
3772
3773 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3774 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3775 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3776 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3777 script.)
3778
3779 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3780 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3781 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3782 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3783
3784 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3785 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3786 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3787 of service.
3788
3789 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3790 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3791 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3792
3793 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3794 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3795 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3796 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3797
3798 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3799 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3800 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3801 Qualys.
3802
3803 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3804 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3805 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3806 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3807 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3808
3809 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3810 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3811 current directory.
3812
3813 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3814 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3815 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3816
3817 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3818 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3819 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3820
3821 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3822 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3823 small, instead of NULL.
3824
3825The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3826
3827 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3828 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3829 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3830 locale
3831 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3832 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3833 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3834 cases
3835 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3836 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3837 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3838 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3839 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3840 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3841 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3842 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3843 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3844 "Bangla"
3845 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3846 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3847 width Latin characters
3848 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3849 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3850 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3851 letters
3852 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3853 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3854 (CVE-2009-5064)
3855 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3856 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3857 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3858 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3859 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3860 if malloc succeeded
3861 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3862 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3863 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3864 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3865 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3866 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3867 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3868 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3869 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3870 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3871 U+309A
3872 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3873 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3874 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3875 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3876 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3877 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3878 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3879 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3880 for Nicaragua
3881 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3882 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3883 are not found.
3884 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3885 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3886 access
3887 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3888 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3889 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3890 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3891 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3892 __regcall calling convention
3893 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3894 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3895 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3896 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3897 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3898 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3899 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3900 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3901 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3902 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3903 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3904 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3905 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3906 locale
3907 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3908 protector=all
3909 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3910 wcwidth
3911 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3912 consistency check failures
3913 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3914 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3915 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3916 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3917 PIE
3918 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3919 locales
3920 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3921 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3922 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3923 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3924 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3925 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3926 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3927 on memory allocation failure
3928 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3929 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3930 the suspect)
3931 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3932 default (i386)
3933 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3934 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3935 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3936 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3937 instead of EAI_NODATA
3938 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3939 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3940 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3941 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3942 implementation
3943 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3944 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3945 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3946 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3947 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3948 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3949 allocation in syscall loops)
3950 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3951 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3952 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3953 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3954 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3955 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3956 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3957 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3958 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3959 occur with -O3
3960 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3961 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3962 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3963 amounts)
3964 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3965 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3966 niu_NZ
3967 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3968 checks
3969 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3970 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3971 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3972 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3973 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3974 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3975 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3976 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3977 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3978 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3979 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3980 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3981 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3982 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3983 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3984 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3985 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3986 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3987 parsing after OOM
3988 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3989 object
3990 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3991 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3992 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3993 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3994 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3995 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3996 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3997 ppc64le
3998 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3999 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4000 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4001 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4002 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4003 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4004 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4005 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4006 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4007 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4008 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4009 math_force_eval
4010 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4011 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4012 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4013 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4014 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4015 the svid compat wrapper
4016 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4017 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4018 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4019 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4020 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4021 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4022 --verbose.
4023 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4024 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4025 to 2.26
4026 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4027 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4028 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4029 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4030 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4031 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4032 (CVE-2017-15804)
4033 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4034 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4035 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4036 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4037 failure."
4038 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4039 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4040 -m32
4041 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4042 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4043 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4044 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4045 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4046 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4047 inside the ASCII printable range
4048 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4049 -mlong-double-64
4050 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4051 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4052 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4053 Internet
4054 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4055 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4056 backslash
4057 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4058 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4059 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4060 heaps in an arena
4061 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4062 networking interface
4063 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4064 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4065 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4066 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4067 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4068 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4069 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4070 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4071 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4072 order
4073 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4074 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4075 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4076 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4077 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4078 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4079 same as for Croatian
4080 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4081 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4082 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4083 for initial thread"
4084 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4085 SC_SSIZE_MAX
4086 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4087 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4088 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4089 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4090 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4091 (CVE-2017-1000408)
4092 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4093 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4094 modified in case of success
4095 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4096 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4097 success
4098 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4099 stack-protector=all
4100 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4101 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4102 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4103 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4104 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4105 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4106 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4107 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4108 adding it on top
4109 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4110 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4111 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4112 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4113 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4114 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4115 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4116 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4117 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4118 (CVE-2018-1000001)
4119 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4120 elision and tunables
4121 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4122 "invalid" exception
4123 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4124 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4125 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4126 exception
4127 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4128 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4129 power4
4130 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4131 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4132 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4133 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4134 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4135 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4136 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4137 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4138 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
4139
4140\f
4141Version 2.26
4142
4143Major new features:
4144
4145* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4146 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4147 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4148 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4149 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4150 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4151 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4152
4153* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4154 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
4155 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4156 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4157 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4158 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4159 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
4160
4161* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4162 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4163 Egmont Koblinger.
4164
4165* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
4166
4167 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4168 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4169 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
4170
4171 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4172 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4173 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4174 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4175 object are still limited to six search domains.
4176
4177 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4178 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4179 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
4180
4181* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4182 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
4183
4184* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4185 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4186 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4187 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
4188
4189* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4190 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4191 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4192 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
4193
4194* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4195 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4196 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4197 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
4198
4199* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4200 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4201 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
4202
4203* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
4204 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4205 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4206 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
4207
4208 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
4209 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4210 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4211 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4212 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4213
4214 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4215 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4216 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4217 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4218 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4219 interfaces should be used instead.
4220
4221Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4222
4223* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4224 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4225 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4226 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4227 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4228 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4229 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4230 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4231
4232* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4233 removed.
4234
4235* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
4236 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
4237 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4238 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4239
4240* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4241 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4242 default.
4243
4244 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4245 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4246 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
4247 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4248 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
4249
4250 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4251 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4252 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4253 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4254
4255* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4256 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4257 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4258 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4259
4260* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4261 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
4262
4263* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4264 exported by accident.
4265
4266* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4267 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4268 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4269
4270* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4271 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4272 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4273 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4274
4275* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4276
4277* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4278
4279* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4280 free instead.
4281
4282* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4283 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4284
4285* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4286 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4287
4288* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4289 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4290 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4291 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4292 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4293 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4294 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4295 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4296
4297* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4298 synced with the kernel:
4299
4300 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4301 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4302
4303 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4304 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4305 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4306
4307 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4308 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4309
4310Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4311
4312* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4313 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4314 x86-32 and x86-64.)
4315
4316* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
4317
4318* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4319 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
4320
4321 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
4322 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4323 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4324 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
4325 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
4326
4327Security related changes:
4328
4329* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
4330 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4331
4332* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4333 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4334
4335* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4336 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4337 (CVE-2010-3192).
4338
4339* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4340 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
4341
4342The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4343
4344 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4345 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4346 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4347 fields
4348 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4349 (CVE-2010-3192)
4350 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4351 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4352 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4353 ld.bfd is available
4354 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4355 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4356 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4357 x86 and other generic code
4358 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4359 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4360 incorrect
4361 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4362 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4363 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4364 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4365 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4366 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4367 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4368 resolver
4369 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4370 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4371 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4372 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4373 chillu characters
4374 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4375 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4376 receiving data
4377 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4378 whitespace
4379 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4380 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4381 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4382 for Peru
4383 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4384 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4385 failures consistently
4386 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4387 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4388 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4389 frame-pointer on i386
4390 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4391 register
4392 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
4393 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4394 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4395 generic c code is used
4396 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4397 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4398 around 4000
4399 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4400 (CVE-2017-12133)
4401 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4402 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4403 with -lieee
4404 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4405 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4406 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4407 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4408 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4409 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4410 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4411 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4412 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4413 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4414 remove()
4415 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4416 checked for errors.
4417 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4418 new posix_spawn implementation
4419 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4420 leads to lower CPU frequency
4421 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4422 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4423 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4424 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4425 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4426 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4427 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4428 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4429 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4430 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4431 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4432 not support gethostbyname4_r
4433 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4434 switching
4435 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4436 arenas
4437 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4438 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4439 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4440 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4441 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4442 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4443 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4444 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4445 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4446 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4447 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4448 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4449 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4450 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4451 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4452 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4453 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4454 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4455 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4456 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4457 retry value
4458 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4459 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4460 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4461 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4462 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4463 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4464 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4465 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4466 [21537] libc:
4467 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4468 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4469 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4470 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4471 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4472 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4473 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4474 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4475 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4476 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4477 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4478 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4479 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4480 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4481 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4482 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4483 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4484 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4485 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4486 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4487 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4488 issue on x86-64
4489 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4490 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4491 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4492 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4493 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4494 construction
4495 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4496 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4497 between_2_3
4498 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4499 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4500 conditions
4501 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4502 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4503 Hindi Locale
4504 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4505 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4506 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4507 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4508 locale
4509 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4510 leading to relocation crash
4511 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4512 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4513 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4514 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4515 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4516 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4517 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4518 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4519 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4520 locale
4521 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4522 locale
4523 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4524 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4525 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4526 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4527 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4528 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4529 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4530 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4531 strings
4532 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4533 protector=all
4534 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4535 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
4536 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4537 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4538 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4539 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4540 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4541 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4542 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4543 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4544 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4545 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4546 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4547 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4548 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4549 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4550 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4551 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4552 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4553 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4554 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4555 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4556 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4557 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4558 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4559 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4560 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4561 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4562 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4563 with unicode 9.0
4564 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4565 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4566 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4567 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4568 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4569
4570\f
4571Version 2.25
4572
4573* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4574 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4575 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4576 Library.
4577
4578* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4579 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4580 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4581 the GNU C Library.
4582
4583* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4584 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4585 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4586 the GNU C Library.
4587
4588* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4589 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4590 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4591 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4592 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4593 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4594 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4595 will not.
4596
4597 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4598 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4599 many years.
4600
4601* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4602 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4603 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4604
4605 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4606 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4607 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4608 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4609 problem.
4610
4611* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4612 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4613 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4614
4615* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4616 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4617 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4618 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4619 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4620 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4621 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4622 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4623 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4624 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4625 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4626 WINT_WIDTH.
4627
4628* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4629
4630 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4631
4632 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4633 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4634 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4635
4636 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4637 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4638
4639 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4640 fminmagf, fminmagl.
4641
4642 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4643
4644 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4645
4646 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4647 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4648
4649 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4650
4651 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4652 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4653
4654* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4655 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4656
4657* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4658 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4659 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4660
4661* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4662 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4663 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4664 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4665 effects of the memory clear).
4666
4667* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4668 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4669 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4670 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4671
4672* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4673 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4674 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4675 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4676 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4677 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4678
4679* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4680 have been added.
4681
4682* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4683 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4684 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4685 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4686 as large as several megabytes.
4687
4688* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4689 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4690 been removed.
4691
4692* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4693 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4694 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4695 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4696 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4697 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4698 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4699
4700* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4701 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4702 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4703 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4704
4705* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4706 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4707 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4708 Internet.
4709
4710* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4711 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4712 They were already unimplemented.
4713
4714* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4715 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4716 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4717 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4718
4719* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4720 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4721 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4722 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4723 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4724
4725* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4726 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4727 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4728 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4729 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4730
4731* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4732 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4733 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4734 did not reflect that.
4735
4736* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4737 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4738 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4739 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4740 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4741 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4742 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4743 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4744
4745* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4746 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4747 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4748 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4749
4750* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4751 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4752 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4753 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4754
4755* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4756 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4757 guarantees.
4758
4759* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4760 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4761 make state changes.
4762
4763Security related changes:
4764
4765* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4766 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4767 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4768 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4769 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4770
4771* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4772 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4773 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4774 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4775 (CVE-2015-5180)
4776
4777The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4778
4779 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4780 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4781 protector-all
4782 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4783 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4784 before it started waiting
4785 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4786 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4787 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4788 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4789 wrong type
4790 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4791 library linked with pthread
4792 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4793 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4794 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4795 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4796 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4797 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4798 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4799 when it shouldn't
4800 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4801 not
4802 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4803 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4804 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4805 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4806 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4807 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4808 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4809 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4810 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4811 termination
4812 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4813 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4814 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4815 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4816 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4817 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4818 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4819 causes a segmentation fault
4820 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4821 linking
4822 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4823 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4824 uninitialized GOT
4825 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4826 versions
4827 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4828 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4829 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4830 is always true.
4831 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4832 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4833 modes
4834 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4835 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4836 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4837 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4838 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4839 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4840 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4841 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4842 libpthread.a
4843 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4844 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4845 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4846 _res_hconf
4847 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4848 information.
4849 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4850 penalty
4851 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4852 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4853 cause transition penalty
4854 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4855 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4856 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4857 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4858 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4859 mcount.oS)
4860 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4861 Checking
4862 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4863 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4864 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4865 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4866 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4867 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4868 multi-arch
4869 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4870 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4871 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4872 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4873 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4874 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4875 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4876 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4877 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4878 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4879 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4880 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4881 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4882 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4883 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4884 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4885 glibc
4886 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4887 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4888 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4889 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4890 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4891 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4892 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4893 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4894 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4895 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4896 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4897 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4898 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4899 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4900 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4901 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4902 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4903 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4904 RES_USE_INET6
4905 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4906 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4907 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4908 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4909 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4910 wrong condition
4911 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4912 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4913 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4914 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4915 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4916 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4917 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4918 clang
4919 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4920 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4921 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4922 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4923 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4924\f
4925Version 2.24
4926
4927* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4928 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4929 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4930 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4931 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4932 architectures.
4933
4934* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4935 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4936 been included in previous releases.
4937
4938* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4939 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4940
4941* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4942 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4943 instead of “union wait”.
4944
4945* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4946 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4947 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4948 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4949 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4950 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4951 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4952
4953* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4954 API.
4955
4956* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4957 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4958 drop it.
4959
4960* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4961 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4962 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4963 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4964 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4965 extensions.
4966
4967Security related changes:
4968
4969* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4970 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4971 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4972
4973* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4974 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4975 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4976 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4977
4978* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4979 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4980 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4981
4982* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4983 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4984 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4985
4986* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4987 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4988 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4989 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4990
4991The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4992
4993 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4994 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4995 of MS-DOS.
4996 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4997 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4998 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4999 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5000 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5001 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5002 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5003 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5004 CLDR data
5005 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5006 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5007 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5008 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5009 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5010 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5011 romanisation
5012 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5013 and +/-
5014 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5015 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5016 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5017 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5018 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5019 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5020 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5021 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5022 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5023 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5024 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5025 all locales
5026 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5027 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5028 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5029 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5030 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5031 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5032 execute
5033 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5034 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5035 -Wsystem-headers
5036 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5037 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5038 Romanian locale data
5039 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5040 symbol
5041 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5042 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5043 language
5044 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5045 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5046 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5047 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5048 machine
5049 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5050 description
5051 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5052 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5053 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5054 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5055 when using RTLD_NEXT
5056 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5057 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5058 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5059 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5060 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5061 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5062 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5063 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5064 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5065 Excavator core
5066 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5067 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5068 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5069 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5070 double range
5071 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5072 part zero incorrect
5073 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5074 equality tests
5075 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5076 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5077 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5078 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5079 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5080 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5081 glibc-2.22
5082 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5083 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5084 'tst-numeric.c'
5085 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5086 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5087 low part
5088 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5089 result
5090 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5091 unaligned stack
5092 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5093 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5094 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5095 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5096 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5097 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5098 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5099 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5100 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5101 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5102 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5103 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5104 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5105 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5106 modes
5107 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5108 server addresses
5109 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5110 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5111 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5112 response to getaddrinfo
5113 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5114 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5115 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5116 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5117 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5118 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5119 sometimes incorrect
5120 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5121 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5122 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5123 record types
5124 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5125 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5126 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5127 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5128 (CVE-2016-3075)
5129 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5130 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5131 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5132 resolving symbols
5133 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5134 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5135 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5136 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5137 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5138 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5139 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5140 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5141 gethosts
5142 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5143 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5144 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5145 (CVE-2016-3706)
5146 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5147 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5148 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5149 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5150 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5151 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5152 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5153 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5154 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5155 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5156 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5157 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5158 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5159 executable
5160 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5161 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5162 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5163 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5164 XPG3
5165 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5166 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5167 (CVE-2016-4429)
5168 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5169 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5170 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5171 AS not supporting AVX512
5172 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5173 sNaN argument
5174 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5175 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5176 argument
5177 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5178 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5179 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5180 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5181 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5182 eax=0x80000001
5183 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5184 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5185 subnormals
5186 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5187 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5188 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5189 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5190 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5191 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5192 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5193 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5194 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5195 input
5196 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5197 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5198 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5199 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5200 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5201 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5202 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5203 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5204 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5205 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5206 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5207 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5208 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5209 double rounding
5210 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5211 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5212 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5213 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5214 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5215 (Only arm/linux)
5216 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5217 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5218 fallbacks
5219 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5220 "invalid" exceptions
5221 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5222 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5223 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5224 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5225 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5226 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5227 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5228 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5229 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
5230\f
5231Version 2.23
5232
5233* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5234 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5235 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5236 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5237 89, 16061, and 18568.
5238
5239* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5240 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5241 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5242 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5243 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5244 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5245 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5246
5247* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5248 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5249 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5250
5251* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5252 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5253 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5254 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5255 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5256 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5257 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5258
5259* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5260 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5261 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5262 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
5263 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
5264 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
5265 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5266 Ericsson.)
5267
5268* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5269 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5270 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5271 independent of the GNU C Library.
5272
5273* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5274 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
5275
5276* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5277 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5278 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5279 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5280 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5281 Linux kernel.
5282
5283* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5284 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
5285
5286* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5287 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5288 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5289 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5290 defining their own copy.
5291
5292* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5293 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5294 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5295
5296Security related changes:
5297
5298* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5299 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5300
5301* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5302 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5303 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5304 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5305 (CVE-2015-8777)
5306
5307* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5308 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5309
5310* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5311 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5312
5313* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5314 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
5315 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
5316
5317* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5318 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5319 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5320 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5321 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5322 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5323 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5324 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5325 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5326 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5327 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5328 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5329 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5330
5331The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5332
5333 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5334 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5335 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5336 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5337 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5338 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5339 use `mkstemp'
5340 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
5341 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
5342 overflow/underflow errors
5343 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5344 overflow/underflow
5345 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5346 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5347 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5348 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5349 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5350 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5351 are not contiguous
5352 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5353 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5354 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5355 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5356 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5357 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5358 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5359 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5360 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5361 all exceptions
5362 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5363 arguments
5364 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5365 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5366 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5367 should include
5368 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5369 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5370 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5371 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5372 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5373 GNU/Linux
5374 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5375 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5376 arguments
5377 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5378 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5379 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5380 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5381 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5382 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5383 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5384 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5385 rounding results
5386 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5387 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5388 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5389 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5390 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5391 fails
5392 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5393 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5394 block boundary
5395 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5396 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5397 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5398 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5399 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5400 4.7?
5401 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5402 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5403 (related to lock elision)
5404 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5405 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5406 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5407 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5408 (CVE-2015-8779)
5409 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5410 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5411 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5412 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5413 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5414 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5415 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5416 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5417 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5418 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5419 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5420 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5421 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5422 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5423 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5424 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5425 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5426 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5427 contains a vector instruction exception.
5428 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5429 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5430 locales
5431 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5432 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5433 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5434 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5435 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5436 missing break ?
5437 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5438 32bit processes
5439 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5440 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5441 infinity
5442 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5443 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5444 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5445 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5446 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5447 be forced unloaded
5448 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5449 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5450 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5451 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5452 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5453 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5454 statically too large
5455 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5456 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5457 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5458 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5459 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5460 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5461 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5462 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5463 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5464 FUTEX_SHARED
5465 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5466 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5467 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5468 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5469 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5470 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5471 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5472 opendir()
5473 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5474 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5475 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5476 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5477 signgam
5478 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5479 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5480 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5481 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5482 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5483 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5484 dependencies
5485 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5486 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5487 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5488 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5489 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5490 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5491 (CVE-2015-8776)
5492 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5493 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5494 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5495 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5496 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5497 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5498 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5499 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5500 contention
5501 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5502 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5503 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5504 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5505 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5506 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5507 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5508 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5509 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5510 rounding modes
5511 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5512 ILP32
5513 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5514 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5515 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5516 threshold
5517 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5518 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5519 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
5520 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
5521 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5522 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5523 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5524 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5525 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5526 pthread_setaffinity_np
5527 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5528 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5529 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5530 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5531 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5532 prelink
5533 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5534 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5535 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5536 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5537 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5538 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5539 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5540 bits/mathcalls.h
5541 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5542 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5543 for C99-based standards
5544 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5545 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5546 math-only
5547 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5548 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5549 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5550 disabled
5551 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5552 "inexact" exceptions
5553 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5554 arguments
5555 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5556 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5557 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5558 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5559 rules
5560 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5561 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5562 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5563 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5564 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5565 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5566 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5567 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5568 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5569 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5570 from 32bit
5571 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5572 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5573 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5574 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5575 subnormals
5576 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5577 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5578 error on 32-bit architectures
5579 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5580 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5581 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5582 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5583 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5584 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5585 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5586 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5587 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5588 -Os
5589 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5590 CPU's.
5591 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5592 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5593 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5594 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5595 architectures
5596 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5597\f
5598Version 2.22
5599
5600* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5601
5602 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5603 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5604 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5605 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5606 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5607 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5608 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5609 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5610 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5611 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5612 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5613 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5614 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5615 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5616 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5617 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5618 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5619 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5620 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5621 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5622
5623* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5624 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5625
5626* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5627 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5628 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5629 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5630 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5631 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5632
5633* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5634 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5635 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5636 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5637 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5638
5639* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5640 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5641 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5642
5643* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5644 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5645 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5646 17998.
5647
5648* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5649 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5650 condition in some applications.
5651
5652* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5653 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5654 pow, powf.
5655 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5656 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5657 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5658 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5659 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5660
5661* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5662 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5663 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5664 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5665
5666* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5667 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5668 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5669
5670* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5671 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5672
5673* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5674 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5675 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5676
5677 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5678 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5679 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5680\f
5681Version 2.21
5682
5683* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5684
5685 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5686 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5687 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5688 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5689 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5690 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5691 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5692 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5693 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5694 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5695 17892.
5696
5697* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5698 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5699 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5700 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5701 intended.
5702
5703* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5704 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5705 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5706 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5707 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5708 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5709
5710* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5711
5712* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5713 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5714 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5715
5716* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5717 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5718 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5719 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5720 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5721 effects being visible outside transactions.
5722
5723* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5724 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5725
5726* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5727
5728* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5729 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5730 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5731 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5732 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5733
5734* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5735 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5736
5737* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5738 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5739 format.
5740
5741* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5742 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5743 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5744
5745* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5746 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5747
5748* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5749
5750* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5751 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5752 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5753 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5754
5755* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5756 with newer versions of bison.
5757
5758* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5759 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5760 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5761 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5762 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5763 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5764 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5765 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5766 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5767 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5768 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5769 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5770 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5771
5772 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5773 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5774 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5775 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5776 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5777\f
5778Version 2.20
5779
5780* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5781
5782 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5783 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5784 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5785 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5786 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5787 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5788 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5789 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5790 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5791 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5792 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5793 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5794 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5795 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5796 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5797
5798* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5799 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5800 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5801 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5802 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5803 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5804 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5805 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5806 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5807 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5808
5809* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5810 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5811 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5812 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5813 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5814
5815* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5816
5817* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5818 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5819
5820* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5821 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5822 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5823 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5824 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5825 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5826
5827* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5828 from ports.
5829
5830* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5831 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5832 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5833 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5834 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5835 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5836 test macros defined.
5837
5838* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5839
5840* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5841 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5842 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5843 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5844 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5845 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5846 is not built.
5847
5848* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5849 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5850 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5851 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5852 invocation.
5853
5854* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5855 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5856 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5857
5858* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5859 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5860 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5861 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5862
5863* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5864 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5865 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5866 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5867 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5868 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5869 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5870 additional checks.
5871
5872* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5873 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5874 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5875 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5876 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5877 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5878 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5879 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5880 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5881
5882* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5883 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5884 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5885 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5886 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5887 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5888
5889* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5890 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5891 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5892 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5893\f
5894Version 2.19
5895
5896* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5897
5898 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5899 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5900 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5901 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5902 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5903 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5904 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5905 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5906 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5907 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5908 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5909 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5910 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5911 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5912 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5913 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5914 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5915 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5916
5917* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5918 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5919
5920* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5921 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5922 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5923 extension which uses __block.
5924
5925* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5926 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5927 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5928 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5929 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5930
5931* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5932 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5933 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5934 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5935 if malloc fails.
5936
5937* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5938 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5939 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5940 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5941 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5942
5943* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5944 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5945 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5946
5947* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5948 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5949 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5950 #15856, #15857).
5951
5952* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5953 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5954
5955* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5956 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5957
5958* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5959
5960* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5961 supported locales.
5962
5963* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5964
5965* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5966
5967* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5968 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5969 for which the C library was built.
5970
5971* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5972 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5973 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5974 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5975 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5976 in the following circumstances:
5977
5978 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5979
5980 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5981 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5982
5983* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5984 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5985
5986* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5987 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5988
5989* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5990
5991* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5992 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5993
5994* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5995
5996* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5997
5998* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5999
6000* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6001 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6002 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6003 disable some of those declarations.
6004
6005* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
6006 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6007 that did nothing) has also been removed.
6008
6009* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6010 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
6011
6012* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6013 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6014 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6015 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6016 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6017 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6018 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6019 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6020 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6021 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6022 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6023 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6024 require recompilation.
6025\f
6026Version 2.18
6027
6028* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6029
6030 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
6031 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6032 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
6033 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6034 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6035 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6036 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6037 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6038 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6039 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6040 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6041 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6042 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6043 15755, 15759.
6044
6045* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6046 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6047 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6048 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6049 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6050 understands and accepts the risks.
6051
6052* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6053 #15078).
6054
6055* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6056 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
6057
6058* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6059 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6060 destructor calls to glibc.
6061
6062* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6063 output.
6064
6065* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6066 non-x86 architectures.
6067
6068* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6069
6070* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6071
6072* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6073 Richard Henderson.
6074
6075* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6076
6077* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6078 Richard Henderson.
6079
6080* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6081 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6082
6083* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6084
6085* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6086 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
6087
6088* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6089 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
6090
6091* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6092 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6093 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6094
6095* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6096 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6097 attributes of a process.
6098
6099* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6100 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6101 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6102 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6103 mutexes.
6104
6105* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6106 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6107
6108* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6109\f
6110Version 2.17
6111
6112* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6113
6114 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
6115 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6116 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6117 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6118 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6119 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6120 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6121 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6122 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6123 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6124 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6125 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6126 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6127 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6128 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
6129
6130* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6131
6132* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6133 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
6134
6135* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6136 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6137
6138* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6139
6140* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6141 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6142 zEnterprise z196.
6143 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6144
6145* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6146 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6147 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6148
6149* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6150 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6151
6152* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6153 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6154
6155* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6156 can be used with is 2.6.16.
6157
6158* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6159 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6160
6161* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6162 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
6163 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6164 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
6165
6166* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6167 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6168
6169* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
6170 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
6171 default.
6172
6173* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6174 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6175 information in --help and --version output.
6176
6177* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6178 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6179 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6180
6181* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6182 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6183 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6184 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6185 when the mode is enabled.
6186
6187* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6188 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6189 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6190 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6191 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6192 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6193 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
6194
6195* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6196 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
6197\f
6198Version 2.16
6199
6200* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6201
6202 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6203 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6204 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6205 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6206 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6207 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6208 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6209 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6210 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6211 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6212 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6213 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6214 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6215 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6216 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6217 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6218 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6219 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6220 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6221 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6222 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6223 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6224 14277, 14278.
6225
6226* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6227 configuring glibc with:
6228 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
6229 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
6230 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6231
6232* ISO C11 support:
6233
6234 + define static_assert
6235
6236 + do not declare gets
6237
6238 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6239
6240 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6241 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6242 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6243 implementation.
6244
6245 + timespec_get added
6246
6247 + uchar.h support added
6248
6249 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6250
6251 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6252
6253* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
6254
6255* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
6256
6257* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6258 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6259
6260* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6262
6263* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6264 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6265 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6266 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6267 existing applications.
6268
6269* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
6270 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6271 before 2.6.
6272
6273* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6274 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6275 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6276
6277* New locales: mag_IN
6278
6279* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6280 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6281 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6282 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6283 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
6284
6285* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6286
6287* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6288 and Will Schmidt.
6289
6290* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6291
6292* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6293 without a previously built glibc.
6294
6295* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6296 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6297
6298* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6299 now supported for ARM processors.
6300
6301* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6302 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6303 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6304
6305* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
6306
6307* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6308 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6309 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6310 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
6311
6312* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6313 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6314 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6315 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6316
6317* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6318 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6319 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6320 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6321 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6322
6323* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6324 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6325 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6326 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
6327\f
6328Version 2.15
6329
6330* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6331
6332 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6333 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6334 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6335 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6336 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6337 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6338 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
6339
6340* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6341 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6342
6343* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6344 and support for initgroups lookups.
6345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6346
6347* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6348 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6349
6350* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6351 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6352
6353* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6354 on x86-32 and x86-64.
6355 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6356
6357* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
6358 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6359
6360* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6361 for x86-64 and x86-32.
6362 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6363
6364* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6366
6367* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6369
6370* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6372
6373* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6374 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6375
6376* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6377 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6378
6379* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6380 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6381
6382* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
6383
6384* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6385 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6386
6387* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6388 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
6389
6390* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
6391\f
6392Version 2.14
6393
6394* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6395
6396 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
6397 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
6398 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
6399 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
6400 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
6401 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6402 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
6403 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6404 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
6405 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
6406
6407* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6408 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6409 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6410 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
6411
6412 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
6413 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6414 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
6415 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6416
6417* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
6418 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
6419
6420* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
6421 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
6422
6423* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
6424
6425* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6426 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6427
6428* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6429 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6430 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6431 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
6432\f
6433Version 2.13
6434
6435* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6436
6437 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6438 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6439 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6440 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6441 12378, 12394, 12397
6442
6443* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
6444
6445* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
6446
6447* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6448 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
6449 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6450\f
6451Version 2.12
6452
6453* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6454
6455 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6456 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6457 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6458 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
6459 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6460 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6461 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
6462 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
6463
6464* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
6465
6466* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6467
6468* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6469
6470* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6471 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6472 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6473
6474* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6475 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6476 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6477 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6479
6480* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
6481\f
6482Version 2.11
6483
6484* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6485
6486 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6487 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6488 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6489 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6490 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6491 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6492
6493* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6494 mkostemps64
6495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6496
6497* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
6498 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6499
6500* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6501 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6502
6503* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6504
6505* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
6506 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
6507 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
6508 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6509
6510 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
6511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6512
6513* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6514 strstr, strcasestr.
6515 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6516
6517* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6518 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6519
6520* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6521 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6522
6523* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6524 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6525
6526* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6527 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6528 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6529 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6530 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6531 necessity is every process again.
6532 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6533
6534* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6535 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6536
6537* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6538 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6539
6540* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6541 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6543
6544* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6545\f
6546Version 2.10
6547
6548* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6549
6550 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6551 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6552 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6553 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6554 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6555
6556* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6557 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6558
6559* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6561
6562* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6563 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6564
6565* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6566 now in POSIX.
6567
6568* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6570
6571* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6572 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6573
6574* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6575 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6576
6577* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6578 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6579
6580* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6581 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6583
6584* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6585
6586* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6587 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6588
6589* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6590 and extend existing format specifiers.
6591 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6592
6593* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6595
6596* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6597 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6598 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6599 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6600 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6601 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6602\f
6603Version 2.9
6604
6605* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6606
6607 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6608 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6609 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6610 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6611 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6612
6613* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6614 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6615
6616* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6617 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6618
6619* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6621
6622* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6623 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6624 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6625
6626* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6627 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6628
6629* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6630
6631* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6632 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6633
6634* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6635 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6636 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6638
6639* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6640 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6641
6642* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6643 Sinhala)
6644 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6645
6646* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6647\f
6648Version 2.8
6649
6650* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6651
6652 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6653 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6654 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6655 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6656 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6657 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6658 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6659
6660* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6661
6662* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6663
6664* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6665 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6666
6667* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6668
6669* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6671
6672* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6673 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6674
6675* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6676 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6677 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6678
6679* Faster memset for x86-64.
6680 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6681
6682* Faster memcpy on x86.
6683 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6684
6685* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6686 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6687
6688* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6689 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6690\f
6691Version 2.7
6692
6693* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6694
6695 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6696 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6697 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6698 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6699 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6700
6701* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6702 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6703
6704* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6705
6706* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6707 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6708 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6709
6710* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6711 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6712
6713* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6714 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6715
6716* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6717
6718* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6720
6721* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6722 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6723
6724* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6725 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6726
6727* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6728
6729* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6731
6732* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6733 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6734 yo_NG.
6735
6736+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6738\f
6739Version 2.6
6740
6741* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6742
6743 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6744 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6745 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6746 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6747 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6748 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6749 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6750 4702, 4858
6751
6752* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6753
6754* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6755
6756* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6757\f
6758Version 2.5
6759
6760* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6761
6762 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6763 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6764 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6765 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6766 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6767 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6768 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6769 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6770 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6771
6772* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6773 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6775
6776* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6777 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6778
6779* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6780
6781* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6782
6783* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6784 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6785 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6786 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6787 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6788
6789* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6790 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6791 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6792 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6793
6794* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6795 Ulrich Drepper.
6796
6797* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6798
6799* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6800 Ulrich Drepper.
6801
6802* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6803
6804* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6805 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6806\f
6807Version 2.4
6808
6809* More overflow detection functions.
6810
6811* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6812 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6813
6814 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6815 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6816 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6817 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6818 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6819 by Masahide Washizawa.
6820
6821* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6822 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6823
6824* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6825 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6826 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6827 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6828
6829* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6830 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6831
6832* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6833
6834* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6835 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6836 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6837
6838* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6839 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6840
6841* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6842 for compatibility with some other systems.
6843
6844* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6845\f
6846Version 2.3.6
6847
6848* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6849
6850 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6851 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6852 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6853 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6854 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6855 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6856
6857 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6858
6859* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6860
6861* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6862\f
6863Version 2.3.5
6864
6865* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6866
6867 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6868 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6869 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6870 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6871
6872 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6873\f
6874Version 2.3.4
6875
6876* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6878
6879* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6880 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6882
6883* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6884 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6885
6886* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6887 efficiently.
6888 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6889
6890* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6891 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6892 handling data.
6893
6894* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6895 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6896 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6897
6898* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6899 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6900
6901* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6902 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6903 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6904 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6905
6906* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6907 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6908 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6909 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6910
6911* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6912 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6913 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6914 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6915 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6916\f
6917Version 2.3.3
6918
6919* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6920 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6921
6922* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6923 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6924
6925* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6926 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6927
6928* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6929 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6930
6931* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6932 by Roland McGrath.
6933
6934* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6935 and Ulrich Drepper.
6936
6937* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6938 RFC 3484.
6939\f
6940Version 2.3.2
6941
6942* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6943 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6944 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6945 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6946 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6947 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6948 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6949 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6950 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6951
6952* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6953 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6954 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6955
6956* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6957
6958* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6959 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6960
6961* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6962 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6963
6964* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6965
6966* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6967 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6968
6969* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6970 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6971 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6972 of weak definition in ld.so.
6973
6974* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6975 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6976
6977* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6978 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6979\f
6980Version 2.3
6981
6982* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6983 charsets.
6984
6985* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6986 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6987
6988* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6989 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6990
6991* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6992 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6993
6994* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6995 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6996 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6997
6998* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6999 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
7000
7001* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
7002 implementation of regex.
7003
7004* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7005 Unicode 3.2.
7006
7007* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7008 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
7009
7010* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7011 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7012 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
7013
7014* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
7015 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
7016
7017* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7018 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7019 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
7020
7021* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7022 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
7023
7024* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7025 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7026 and Ulrich Drepper.
7027
7028* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
7029\f
7030Version 2.2.6
7031
7032* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7033 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7034
7035* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7036 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
7037\f
7038Version 2.2.5
7039
7040* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7041 128-bit long double format.
7042
7043* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7044 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
7045
7046* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
7047
7048* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7049
7050* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7051 as well.
7052
7053* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7054 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
7055
7056* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7057\f
7058Version 2.2.4
7059
7060* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
7061 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
7062
7063* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7064 support Unicode 3.1.
7065
7066* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7067 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
7068
7069* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
7070
7071* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
7072 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7073 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7074
7075* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7076 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7077
7078* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7079 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
7080
7081* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
7082\f
7083Version 2.2.3
7084
7085* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
7086 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7087 in float, double, and long double format.
7088
7089* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
7090 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7091 128-bit long double format.
7092
7093* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7094 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7095 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7096 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7097
7098* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
7099 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7100 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7101
7102* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7103 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
7104
7105* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7106 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
7107
7108* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7109 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7110 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
7111
7112* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7113 family of functions for Linux/S390.
7114
7115* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7116 of functions for Linux/x86.
7117
7118* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
7119\f
7120Version 2.2.2
7121
7122* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
7123 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7124 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7125 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7126 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7127 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7128 other headers.
7129
7130* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7131 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7132
7133* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7134 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7135 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7136 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7137
7138* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7139 locales. While
7140
7141 locale -a
7142
7143 only lists the names of the supported locales
7144
7145 locale -a --verbose
7146
7147 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7148 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7149\f
7150Version 2.2.1
7151
7152* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7153 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7154 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7155 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7156 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7157
7158 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7159
7160 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7161
7162 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
7163
7164* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7165 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7166 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
7167
7168* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7169 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7170
7171* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7172 changed from the default "C" locale.
7173
7174* The usual bug fixes.
7175\f
7176Version 2.2
7177
7178* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7179 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7180 is in progress.
7181
7182* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
7183
7184* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
7185
7186 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7187 obviously requires a database library being available.
7188
7189* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7190
7191* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
7192
7193* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7194 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7195
7196* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7197
7198* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
7199 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7200 and Mark Kettenis.
7201
7202 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7203 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7204 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
7205
7206 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
7207 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7208
7209* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7210 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7211 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7212
7213* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7214 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7215 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7217
7218 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7219 structures for the wide character tables.
7220
7221* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7222
7223* The utmp daemon has been removed.
7224
7225* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7226
7227* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7228 and Yutaka Niibe.
7229
7230* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7231
7232* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7233
7234* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7235
7236* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7237
7238* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7239
7240* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
7241 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7242 implemented for Linux.
7243
7244* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7245 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7246 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7247 versions.
7248
7249* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7250 Masahide Washizawa.
7251
7252* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
7253\f
7254Version 2.1.3
7255
7256* bug fixes
7257
7258\f
7259Version 2.1.2
7260
7261* bug fixes
7262
7263\f
7264Version 2.1.1
7265
7266* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7267
7268* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7269
7270* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
7271
7272* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7273
7274* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
7275
7276* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
7277
7278* Update timezone data files.
7279
7280* lots of charmaps corrections
7281
7282* some new locale definitions and charmaps
7283
7284\f
7285Version 2.1
7286
7287* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7288 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7289 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7290 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7291 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7292 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7293
7294* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
7295 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7296
7297* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
7298 symbol level.
7299
7300* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
7301 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
7302
7303* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
7304
7305* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
7306 numbers.
7307
7308* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
7309
7310* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7311 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
7312
7313* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7314 library.
7315
7316* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
7317 functions from ISO C 9X.
7318
7319* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7320 real valued functions.
7321
7322* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
7323
7324* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7325
7326* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
7327
7328* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
7329
7330* Optimized string functions have been added.
7331
7332* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
7333
7334* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7335
7336* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7337 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7338
7339 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7340 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7341
7342 user system wall
7343
7344 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
7345
7346 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
7347
7348 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
7349
7350 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7351
7352 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7353
7354 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
7355
7356 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7357 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
7358 horribly slow.
7359
7360 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7361 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
7362
7363* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
7364
7365* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
7366
7367* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7368 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7369
7370* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
7371
7372* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7373 Bambrough.
7374
7375* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7376 latest draft standards.
7377
7378* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7379
7380* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7381~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7382addseverity NEW: Unix98
7383alphasort64 NEW: LFS
7384argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7385argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7386argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7387argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7388argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7389argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7390argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7391argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7392argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7393argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
7394authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7395authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7396authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
7397backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7398backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7399backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7400cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
7401cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7402cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7403cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7404cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7405cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7406capget NEW: kernel
7407capset NEW: kernel
7408carg NEW: ISO C 9x
7409cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
7410cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
7411casin NEW: ISO C 9x
7412casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7413casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7414casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7415casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7416casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7417catan NEW: ISO C 9x
7418catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7419catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7420catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7421catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7422catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7423cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7424ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
7425ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7426ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7427ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7428ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7429ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7430cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
7431cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
7432cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
7433cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
7434cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7435cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7436clearerr_locked REMOVED
7437clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7438clog NEW: ISO C 9x
7439clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7440clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7441clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7442clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
7443clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
7444conj NEW: ISO C 9x
7445conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
7446conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
7447cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
7448cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
7449cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
7450cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
7451cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7452cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7453creal NEW: ISO C 9x
7454crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7455creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7456creat64 NEW: LFS
7457csin NEW: ISO C 9x
7458csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7459csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7460csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7461csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7462csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7463csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
7464csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7465csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7466ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
7467ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7468ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7469ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7470ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7471ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7472des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7473ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7474endutxent NEW: Unix98
7475exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7476exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7477exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7478exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7479exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7480exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7481fattach NEW: STREAMS
7482fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7483fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
7484fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
7485fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
7486feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7487fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7488fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7489fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7490feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7491feof_locked REMOVED
7492feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7493ferror_locked REMOVED
7494fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7495fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7496fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7497fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7498feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7499fflush_locked REMOVED
7500ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
7501ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
7502fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
7503fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7504fileno_locked REMOVED
7505fma NEW: ISO C 9x
7506fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7507fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
7508fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
7509fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
7510fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
7511fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
7512fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
7513fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
7514fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
7515fopen64 NEW: LFS
7516fputc_locked REMOVED
7517fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7518fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7519freopen64 NEW: LFS
7520fseeko NEW: Unix98
7521fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
7522fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
7523fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7524fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
7525ftello NEW: Unix98
7526ftello64 NEW: LFS
7527ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7528ftw64 NEW: LFS
7529fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7530gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7531gamma_r REMOVED
7532gammaf_r REMOVED
7533gammal_r REMOVED
7534getchar_locked REMOVED
7535getdate NEW: Unix98
7536getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7537getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7538getmsg NEW: STREAMS
7539getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7540getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7541getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7542getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7543getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7544getutxent NEW: Unix98
7545getutxid NEW: Unix98
7546getutxline NEW: Unix98
7547glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7548globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7549gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7550gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7551grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7552host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7553iconv NEW: iconv
7554iconv_close NEW: iconv
7555iconv_open NEW: iconv
7556if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7557if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7558if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7559if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7560in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7561in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7562inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7563isastream NEW: STREAMS
7564iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7565key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7566key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7567key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7568key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7569key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7570key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7571key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7572key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7573key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7574llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7575llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7576llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7577llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7578llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7579llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7580log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
7581log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
7582log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
7583lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7584lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7585lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7586lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7587lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7588lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7589lseek64 NEW: LFS
7590makecontext NEW: Unix98
7591mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7592mmap64 NEW: LFS
7593moncontrol REMOVED
7594modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7595nan NEW: ISO C 9x
7596nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7597nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7598nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7599nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7600nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7601netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7602netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7603nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7604nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7605nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7606nftw NEW: Unix98
7607nftw64 NEW: LFS
7608open64 NEW: LFS
7609passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7610pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
7611pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7612pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7613pread NEW: Unix98
7614pread64 NEW: LFS
7615printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7616printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7617profil_counter REMOVED
7618pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7619pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7620ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7621ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7622putc_locked REMOVED
7623putchar_locked REMOVED
7624putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7625putmsg NEW: STREAMS
7626putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7627pututxline NEW: Unix98
7628pwrite NEW: Unix98
7629pwrite64 NEW: LFS
7630readdir64 NEW: LFS
7631readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7632remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7633remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7634remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7635round NEW: ISO C 9x
7636roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7637roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7638rtime NEW: GNU ext.
7639scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7640scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7641scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7642scandir64 NEW: LFS
7643sendfile NEW: kernel
7644setcontext NEW: Unix98
7645setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7646setutxent NEW: Unix98
7647sighold NEW: Unix98
7648sigignore NEW: Unix98
7649sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7650sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7651sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7652sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7653sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7654sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7655sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7656sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7657statfs64 NEW: LFS
7658statvfs NEW: Unix98
7659statvfs64 NEW: LFS
7660strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7661strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7662strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7663strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7664svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7665svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7666svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7667swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7668tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7669tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7670tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7671tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7672tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7673tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
7674trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
7675truncate64 NEW: LFS
7676truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7677truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7678umount2 NEW: kernel
7679unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7680updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7681user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7682utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7683versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7684versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7685waitid NEW: Unix98
7686wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7687wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7688wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7689wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7690wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7691wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7692wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7693wcswcs NEW: Unix98
7694wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7695wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7696write_profiling REMOVED
7697xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7698xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7699xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7700xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7701xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7702xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7703xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7704xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7705xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7706xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7707xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7708xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7709xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7710xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7711xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7712~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7713\f
7714Version 2.0.6
7715
7716* more bug fixes
7717
7718\f
7719Version 2.0.5
7720
7721* more bug fixes
7722
7723* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7724
7725* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7726
7727* rewrite of cbrt function
7728
7729* update of timezone data
7730\f
7731Version 2.0.4
7732
7733* more bug fixes
7734\f
7735Version 2.0.3
7736
7737* more bug fixes
7738\f
7739Version 2.0.2
7740
7741* more bug fixes
7742
7743* add atoll function
7744
7745* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7746
7747* fix math functions
7748\f
7749Version 2.0.1
7750
7751* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7752
7753* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7754
7755* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7756 the ELF dynamic loader.
7757
7758* support for parallel builds is improved
7759\f
7760Version 2.0
7761
7762* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7763 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7764 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7765
7766* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7767 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7768 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7769 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7770 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7771 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7772 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7773 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7774 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7775 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7776 files in the ELF format.
7777
7778* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7779 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7780
7781* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7782 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7783 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7784 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7785 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7786 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7787 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7788 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7789 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7790 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7791 about dynamically linked binaries.
7792
7793* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7794 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7795 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7796 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7797 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7798
7799* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7800 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7801 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7802 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7803 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7804
7805* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7806
7807* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7808 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7809 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7810 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7811 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7812 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7813 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7814 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7815 NSS services available.
7816
7817* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7818 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7819 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7820
7821* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7822 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7823 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7824
7825* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7826 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7827 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7828 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7829
7830* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7831 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7832 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7833
7834* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7835 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7836 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7837
7838* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7839 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7840
7841* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7842 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7843 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7844 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7845
7846* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7847 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7848 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7849
7850* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7851 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7852 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7853 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7854 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7855 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7856 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7857 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7858
7859* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7860 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7861 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7862 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7863 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7864 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7865 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7866
7867* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7868 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7869 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7870 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7871 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7872 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7873
7874* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7875 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7876
7877* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7878 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7879 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7880
7881* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7882
7883* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7884 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7885 their use is discouraged.
7886
7887* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7888 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7889
7890* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7891 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7892
7893* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7894 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7895
7896* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7897 see <dirent.h>.
7898
7899* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7900 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7901 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7902 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7903 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7904
7905* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7906 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7907 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7908 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7909
7910* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7911 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7912
7913* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7914 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7915 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7916 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7917 number generator.
7918
7919* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7920 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7921
7922* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7923 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7924
7925* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7926 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7927 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7928 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7929
7930* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7931
7932* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7933 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7934 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7935
7936* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7937 for arithmetic and string handling.
7938
7939* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7940 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7941 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7942 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7943
7944* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7945 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7946 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7947 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7948 programs already written to use it.)
7949
7950* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7951 constants.
7952
7953* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7954 with 4.4 BSD.
7955
7956* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7957 a given effective group ID.
7958
7959* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7960 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7961 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7962 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7963
7964* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7965 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7966 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7967 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7968 doing the same thing.
7969
7970* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7971 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7972
7973* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7974 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7975
7976* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7977
7978* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7979 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7980 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7981 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7982 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7983
7984* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7985 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7986
7987* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7988 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7989 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7990 function.
7991
7992* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7993
7994* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7995 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7996 strings.
7997
7998* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7999 and writing the utmp file.
8000
8001* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8002 Thorsten Kukuk.
8003
8004* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8005 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8006 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8007
8008* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8009 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8010
8011* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8012 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8013 specification.
8014
8015* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8016 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8017 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8018 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8019
8020* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8021 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8022 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8023
8024* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8025 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8026 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8027 expression matcher.
8028
8029* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8030 functionality.
8031
8032* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8033 by Ulrich Drepper.
8034
8035* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8036
8037* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8038 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8039 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
8040\f
8041Version 1.09
8042
8043* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8044
8045* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8046 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8047
8048* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8049 want to put themselves in the background.
8050
8051* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8052 run without an operating system.
8053
8054* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8055 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8056
8057* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8058 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8059
8060* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8061
8062* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8063 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8064 have YP (aka NIS).
8065
8066* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8067 conventions.
8068
8069* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8070 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8071\f
8072Version 1.08
8073
8074* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8075 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8076 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8077
8078* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8079 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8080
8081* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8082 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8083
8084* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8085
8086* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8087
8088* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8089 compatibility.
8090
8091* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8092 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8093 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8094
8095* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8096
8097* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8098 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8099 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8100
8101* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8102 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8103 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8104 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8105 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8106 on a block).
8107
8108* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8109 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8110 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8111 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8112 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8113 cross-compiler.
8114
8115* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8116 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8117\f
8118Version 1.07
8119
8120* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8121 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8122
8123* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8124 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8125 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8126
8127* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8128 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8129 address of the last character written.
8130
8131* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8132 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8133
8134* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8135 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8136
8137* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8138 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8139 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8140 you dereference this pointer.
8141
8142* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8143 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8144
8145* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8146 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8147 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8148 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8149
8150* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8151 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8152 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8153 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8154\f
8155Version 1.06
8156
8157* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8158 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8159 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8160 in Emacs or the `info' program.
8161 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
8162
8163* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8164
8165* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8166
8167* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8168 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8169
8170* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8171 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8172
8173* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8174 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8175
8176* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8177 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8178 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8179 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8180 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8181
8182* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8183 to the error code in `errno'.
8184
8185* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8186 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8187 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8188 malloc'd string.
8189
8190* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8191 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8192 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8193
8194* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8195 uniquely-named temporary file.
8196\f
8197Version 1.05
8198
8199* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8200 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8201 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8202
8203* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8204 characters.
8205
8206* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8207 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8208
8209* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8210\f
8211Version 1.04
8212
8213* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8214 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8215 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8216 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8217
8218* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8219 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8220 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8221
8222* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8223 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8224
8225* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8226 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8227 made itself into a shared library.
8228
8229* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8230 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8231
8232* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8233 with limited length.
8234
8235* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8236
8237* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8238
8239* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8240
8241* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8242 function for traversing a directory tree.
8243
8244* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8245 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8246 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8247 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8248
8249* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8250 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8251
8252* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8253
8254* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8255 things to your strings.
8256
8257* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8258
8259* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8260 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8261 supporting those systems.
8262
8263* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8264 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8265 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8266 configuration files.
8267
8268* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8269 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8270
8271* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
8272 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8273 in <strings.h>.)
8274
8275* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8276 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8277 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8278 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8279 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8280 required storage is not available.
8281
8282* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8283 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
8284
8285* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8286 latest files released from Berkeley.
8287\f
8288----------------------------------------------------------------------
8289Copying conditions:
8290
8291 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
8292 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
8293 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
8294 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
8295
8296 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
8297 of this document, or of portions of it,
8298 under the above conditions, provided also that they
8299 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
8300\f
8301Local variables:
8302version-control: never
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