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8 Version 2.31
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
13 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
14 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
15 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
16 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
17 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
18
19 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
20
21 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
22 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
23 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
24 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
25 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
26 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
27
28 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
29
30 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
31
32 Security related changes:
33
34 [Add security related changes here]
35
36 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
37
38 [The release manager will add the list generated by
39 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
40
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42 Version 2.30
43
44 Major new features:
45
46 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
47 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
48 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
49
50 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
51 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
52
53 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
54 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
55 to the callback function.
56
57 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
58
59 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
60 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
61 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
62
63 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
64
65 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
66 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
67 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
68 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
69 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
70
71 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
72 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
73 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
74 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
75 link time reference, is gone.
76
77 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
78 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
79 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
80 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
81 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
82 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
83 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
84 the clock choice at initialization time).
85
86 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
87 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
88 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
89
90 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
91
92 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
93 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
94 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
95 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
96 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
97 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
98 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
99 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
100 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
101
102 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
103 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
104 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
105 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
106 since glibc 2.17.
107
108 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
109 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
110
111 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
112 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
113
114 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
115 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
116
117 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
118 BIND_NOW flag.
119
120 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
121 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
122 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
123
124 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
125 header have been removed.
126
127 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
128 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
129 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
130 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
131
132 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
133
134 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
135
136 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
137 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
138
139 Security related changes:
140
141 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
142 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
143 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
144 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
145 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
146 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
147 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
148
149 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
150 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
151 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
152
153 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
154
155 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
156 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
157 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
158 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
159 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
160 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
161 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
162 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
163 invalid input drops valid char
164 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
165 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
166 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
167 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
168 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
169 malloc.h.
170 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
171 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
172 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
173 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
174 functions
175 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
176 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
177 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
178 for long double = double
179 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
180 long double = double
181 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
182 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
183 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
184 long timeouts
185 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
186 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
187 checking for NULL.
188 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
189 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
190 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
191 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
192 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
193 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
194 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
195 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
196 not the default "nor"
197 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
198 false positives, change to modern flexible array
199 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
200 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
201 compiler barriers.
202 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
203 unnecessary librt dependencies
204 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
205 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
206 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
207 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
208 unsorted chunk
209 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
210 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
211 to R_SPARC_H44
212 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
213 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
214 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
215 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
216 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
217 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
218 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
219 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
220 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
221 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
222 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
223 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
224 was not used
225 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
226 tests
227 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
228 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
229 time_t changes
230 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
231 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
232 kernels and break testing
233 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
234 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ā€˜%sā€™ directive argument is null
235 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
236 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
237 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
238 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
239 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
240 -O3 -march=skylake
241 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
242 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
243 crash
244 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
245 linked glibc
246 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
247 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
248 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
249 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
250 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
251 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
252 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
253 always implemented in the same library
254 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
255 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
256 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
257 testroot
258
259 \f
260 Version 2.29
261
262 Major new features:
263
264 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
265 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
266
267 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
268 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
269 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
270 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
271 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
272 configured location.
273
274 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
275
276 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
277 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
278
279 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
280 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
281 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
282 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
283 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
284 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
285 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
286 process actually does not use HTM).
287
288 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
289 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
290 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
291 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
292 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
293 of the same name.
294
295 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
296 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
297 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
298 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
299 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
300
301 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
302 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
303 supported:
304 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
305 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
306
307 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
308 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
309 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
310 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
311 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
312 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
313 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
314
315 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
316 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
317 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
318
319 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
320
321 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
322 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
323
324 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
325 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
326 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
327 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
328
329 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
330 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
331 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
332 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
333 structures.
334
335 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
336 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
337 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
338 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
339 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
340 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
341
342 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
343 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
344 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
345 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
346 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
347
348 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
349 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
350 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
351
352 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
353
354 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
355
356 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
357 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
358
359 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
360 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
361
362 Security related changes:
363
364 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
365 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
366 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
367
368 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
369 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
370 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
371 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
372 Reported by H.J. Lu.
373
374 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
375 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
376 or command injection issues in applications.
377
378 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
379
380 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
381 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
382 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
383 thousands
384 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
385 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
386 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
387 --param options)
388 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
389 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
390 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
391 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
392 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
393 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
394 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
395 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
396 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
397 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
398 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
399 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
400 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
401 pointer argument is non-NULL
402 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
403 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
404 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
405 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
406 multithreads call popen
407 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
408 and pthread_create fails.
409 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
410 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
411 constructor
412 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
413 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
414 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
415 source tree
416 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
417 float
418 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
419 one error
420 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
421 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
422 linker
423 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
424 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
425 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
426 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
427 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
428 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
429 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
430 filesystems
431 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
432 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
433 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
434 functions
435 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
436 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
437 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
438 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
439 have wrong type
440 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
441 wrong type
442 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
443 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
444 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
445 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
446 threads
447 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
448 start.S
449 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
450 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
451 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
452 powerpc64le
453 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
454 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
455 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
456 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
457 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
458 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
459 strftime
460 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
461 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
462 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
463 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
464 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
465 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
466 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
467 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
468 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
469 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
470 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
471 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
472 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
473 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
474 tcache size
475 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
476 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
477 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
478 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
479 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
480 (CVE-2018-19591)
481 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
482 nearest rounding mode
483 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
484 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
485 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
486 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
487 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
488 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
489 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
490 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
491 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
492 error
493 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
494 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
495 using GCC 8
496 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
497 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
498 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
499 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
500 ppc64le
501 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
502 expected result
503 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
504 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
505 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
506 sigaltstack
507 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
508 answers will be rejected)
509 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
510
511 \f
512 Version 2.28
513
514 Major new features:
515
516 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
517 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
518 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
519 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
520 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
521 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
522 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
523 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
524 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
525 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
526 archive or binary locales.
527
528 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
529 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
530 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
531 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
532 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
533 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
534 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
535 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
536 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
537 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
538 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
539 validated for i686.
540
541 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
542 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
543 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
544 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
545 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
546 field) to indicate such support is required.
547
548 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
549 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
550 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
551
552 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
553 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
554
555 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
556 fMxaddfNx functions.
557
558 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
559 fMxsubfNx functions.
560
561 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
562 fMxmulfNx functions.
563
564 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
565 fMxdivfNx functions.
566
567 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
568 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
569 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
570 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
571 and Kashubian.
572
573 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
574 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
575
576 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
577 patches.
578
579 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
580 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
581 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
582 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
583 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
584 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
585 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
586 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
587
588 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
589 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
590 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
591 the fstatat64 function.
592
593 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
594 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
595 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
596 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
597 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
598 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
599 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
600 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
601 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
602
603 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
604 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
605 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
606 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
607 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
608 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
609 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
610 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
611 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
612 results in a load failure now.
613
614 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
615 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
616 <threads.h>:
617
618 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
619 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
620
621 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
622 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
623
624 - call_once for function call synchronization.
625
626 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
627 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
628
629 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
630
631 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
632
633 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
634
635 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
636 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
637 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
638
639 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
640 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
641 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
642 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
643 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
644 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
645
646 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
647 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
648 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
649 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
650 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
651 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
652 (Bug #1190.)
653
654 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
655 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
656 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
657 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
658 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
659 further explanation.
660
661 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
662 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
663 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
664
665 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
666
667 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
668 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
669 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
670
671 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
672 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
673 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
674 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
675
676 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
677 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
678 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
679 for this function instead.
680
681 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
682 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
683 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
684
685 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
686 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
687 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
688 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
689
690 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
691 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
692 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
693 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
694 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
695
696 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
697 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
698 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
699 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
700 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
701 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
702 such as libgcrypt.
703
704 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
705 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
706 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
707 enabled.
708
709 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
710 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
711 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
712
713 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
714 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
715 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
716 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
717 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
718 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
719
720 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
721 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
722 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
723 behavior in a future release.
724
725 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
726
727 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
728
729 Security related changes:
730
731 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
732 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
733 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
734 Bƶck and Christian Weisgerber.
735
736 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
737 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
738
739 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
740 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
741 Izbyshev.
742
743 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
744 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
745 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
746
747 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
748
749 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
750 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
751 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
752 when __WORDSIZE != 64
753 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
754 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
755 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
756 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
757 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
758 14651
759 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
760 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
761 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
762 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
763 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
764 conversion is given
765 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
766 date
767 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
768 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
769 scope with -O1 and higher
770 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
771 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
772 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
773 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
774 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
775 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
776 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
777 horrible machine code)
778 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
779 last constant.
780 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
781 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
782 symbols
783 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
784 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
785 defined
786 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
787 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
788 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
789 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
790 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
791 fpscr.c'
792 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
793 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
794 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
795 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
796 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
797 the base address
798 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
799 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
800 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
801 open_verify
802 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
803 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
804 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
805 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
806 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
807 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
808 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
809 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
810 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
811 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
812 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
813 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
814 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
815 dlopen
816 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
817 AT_SECURE=1
818 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
819 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
820 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
821 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
822 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
823 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
824 should treat Ʊ as a primary different character, sync the collation
825 for Spanish with CLDR
826 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
827 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
828 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
829 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
830 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
831 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
832 es_BO
833 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
834 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
835 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
836 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
837 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
838 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
839 dlopen failures
840 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
841 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
842 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
843 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
844 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
845 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
846 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
847 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
848 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
849 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
850 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
851 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
852 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
853 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
854 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
855 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
856 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
857 makecontext
858 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
859 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
860 required
861 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
862 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
863 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
864 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
865 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
866 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
867 disabled
868 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
869 failure
870 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
871 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
872 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
873 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
874 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
875 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
876 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
877 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
878 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
879 and libc build with -Os)
880 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
881 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
882 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
883 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
884 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
885 that changes /etc/passwd
886 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
887 (CVE-2018-11237)
888 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
889 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
890 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
891 posix/regcomp.c
892 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
893 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
894 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
895 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
896 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
897 AT_SECURE
898 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
899 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
900 parser.c
901 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
902 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
903 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
904 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
905 directed rounding
906 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
907 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
908 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
909 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
910 lookup
911 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
912 interposition
913 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
914 DSO boundaries.
915 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
916 <linux/time.h>
917 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
918 checking
919 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
920 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
921 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
922 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
923 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
924 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
925 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
926 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
927 processors
928 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
929
930 \f
931 Version 2.27
932
933 Major new features:
934
935 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
936 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
937 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
938 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
939 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
940 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
941 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
942 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
943 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
944
945 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
946 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
947 H.J. Lu from Intel.
948
949 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
950
951 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
952
953 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
954 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
955 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
956 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
957 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
958 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
959 from a security and performance perspective.
960
961 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
962 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
963 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
964 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
965
966 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
967 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
968 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
969 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
970 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
971
972 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
973 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
974 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
975 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
976 _Float128.
977
978 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
979 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
980 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
981
982 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
983
984 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
985 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
986 pkey_get.
987
988 * The copy_file_range function was added.
989
990 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
991
992 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
993 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
994 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
995
996 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
997 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
998 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
999 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1000 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1001 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1002 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1003
1004 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1005 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1006 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1007 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1008 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1009 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1010 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1011
1012 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1013 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1014 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1015 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1016 respectively.
1017
1018 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1019 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1020 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1021 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1022
1023 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1024 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1025 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1026
1027 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1028 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1029 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1030
1031 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1032 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1033 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1034
1035 - rv64imac lp64
1036 - rv64imafdc lp64
1037 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1038
1039 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1040
1041 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1042 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1043 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1044 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1045 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1046 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1047 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1048 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1049 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1050 fix this.
1051
1052 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1053 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1054 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1055
1056 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1057 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1058 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1059 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1060 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1061 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1062 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1063 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1064 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1065 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1066 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1067 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1068 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1069 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1070 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1071 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1072 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1073 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1074 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1075 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1076 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1077 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1078 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1079 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1080 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1081 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1082
1083 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1084 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1085
1086 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1087 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1088 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1089 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1090 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1091 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1092 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1093
1094 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1095 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1096 exp10l for these functions instead.
1097
1098 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1099 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1100 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1101
1102 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1103 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1104 ignored.
1105
1106 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1107 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1108 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1109 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1110
1111 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1112 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1113
1114 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1115 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1116
1117 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1118 programs.
1119
1120 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1121
1122 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1123 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1124 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1125 instead.
1126
1127 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1128 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1129 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1130 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1131 use, but predates the bits convention.
1132
1133 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1134
1135 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1136 subdirectory.
1137
1138 Security related changes:
1139
1140 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1141 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1142 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1143 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1144 script.)
1145
1146 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1147 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1148 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1149 Reported by Tim RĆ¼hsen.
1150
1151 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1152 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1153 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1154 of service.
1155
1156 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1157 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1158 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim RĆ¼hsen.
1159
1160 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1161 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1162 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1163 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1164
1165 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1166 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1167 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1168 Qualys.
1169
1170 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1171 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1172 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1173 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1174 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1175
1176 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1177 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1178 current directory.
1179
1180 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1181 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1182 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1183
1184 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1185 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1186 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1187
1188 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1189 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1190 small, instead of NULL.
1191
1192 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1193
1194 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1195 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1196 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1197 locale
1198 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1199 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1200 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1201 cases
1202 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1203 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1204 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1205 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1206 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1207 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1208 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1209 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1210 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1211 "Bangla"
1212 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1213 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1214 width Latin characters
1215 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1216 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1217 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1218 letters
1219 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1220 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1221 (CVE-2009-5064)
1222 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1223 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1224 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1225 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1226 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1227 if malloc succeeded
1228 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1229 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1230 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1231 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1232 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1233 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1234 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1235 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1236 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1237 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1238 U+309A
1239 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1240 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1241 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1242 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1243 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1244 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1245 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1246 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new MĆ­skitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1247 for Nicaragua
1248 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1249 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1250 are not found.
1251 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1252 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1253 access
1254 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1255 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1256 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1257 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1258 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1259 __regcall calling convention
1260 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1261 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1262 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1263 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1264 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1265 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1266 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1267 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1268 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1269 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1270 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1271 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1272 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1273 locale
1274 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1275 protector=all
1276 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1277 wcwidth
1278 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1279 consistency check failures
1280 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1281 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1282 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1283 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1284 PIE
1285 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1286 locales
1287 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1288 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1289 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1290 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1291 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1292 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1293 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1294 on memory allocation failure
1295 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1296 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1297 the suspect)
1298 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1299 default (i386)
1300 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1301 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1302 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1303 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1304 instead of EAI_NODATA
1305 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1306 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1307 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1308 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1309 implementation
1310 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1311 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1312 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1313 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1314 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1315 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1316 allocation in syscall loops)
1317 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1318 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1319 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1320 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1321 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1322 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1323 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1324 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1325 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1326 occur with -O3
1327 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1328 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1329 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1330 amounts)
1331 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1332 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1333 niu_NZ
1334 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1335 checks
1336 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1337 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1338 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1339 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1340 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1341 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1342 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1343 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1344 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1345 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1346 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1347 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1348 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1349 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1350 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1351 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1352 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1353 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1354 parsing after OOM
1355 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1356 object
1357 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1358 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1359 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1360 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1361 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1362 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1363 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1364 ppc64le
1365 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1366 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1367 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1368 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1369 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1370 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1371 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1372 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1373 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1374 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1375 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1376 math_force_eval
1377 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1378 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1379 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1380 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1381 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1382 the svid compat wrapper
1383 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1384 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1385 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1386 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1387 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1388 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1389 --verbose.
1390 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1391 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1392 to 2.26
1393 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1394 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1395 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1396 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1397 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1398 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1399 (CVE-2017-15804)
1400 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1401 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1402 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1403 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1404 failure."
1405 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1406 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1407 -m32
1408 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1409 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1410 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1411 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1412 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1413 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1414 inside the ASCII printable range
1415 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1416 -mlong-double-64
1417 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1418 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1419 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1420 Internet
1421 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1422 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1423 backslash
1424 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1425 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1426 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1427 heaps in an arena
1428 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1429 networking interface
1430 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1431 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1432 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1433 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1434 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1435 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1436 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1437 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1438 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1439 order
1440 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1441 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1442 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1443 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1444 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1445 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1446 same as for Croatian
1447 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1448 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1449 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1450 for initial thread"
1451 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1452 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1453 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1454 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1455 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1456 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1457 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1458 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1459 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1460 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1461 modified in case of success
1462 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ā€˜-no-pieā€™
1463 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1464 success
1465 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1466 stack-protector=all
1467 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1468 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1469 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1470 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1471 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1472 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1473 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1474 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1475 adding it on top
1476 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1477 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1478 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1479 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1480 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1481 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1482 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1483 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1484 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1485 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1486 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1487 elision and tunables
1488 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1489 "invalid" exception
1490 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1491 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1492 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1493 exception
1494 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1495 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1496 power4
1497 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1498 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1499 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1500 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1501 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1502 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1503 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1504 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1505 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
1506
1507 \f
1508 Version 2.26
1509
1510 Major new features:
1511
1512 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1513 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1514 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1515 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1516 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1517 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1518 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1519
1520 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1521 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
1522 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1523 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1524 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1525 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1526 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
1527
1528 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1529 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1530 Egmont Koblinger.
1531
1532 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
1533
1534 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1535 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1536 ā€œno-reloadā€ (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
1537
1538 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1539 (configured using the ā€œsearchā€ directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1540 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1541 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ā€˜_resā€™ global
1542 object are still limited to six search domains.
1543
1544 - When the ā€œrotateā€ (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1545 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1546 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
1547
1548 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1549 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
1550
1551 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1552 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1553 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1554 Dennis Wƶlfing and RĆ¼diger Sonderfeld.
1555
1556 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1557 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1558 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1559 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
1560
1561 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1562 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1563 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1564 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
1565
1566 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1567 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1568 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
1569
1570 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
1571 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1572 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1573 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
1574
1575 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
1576 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1577 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1578 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1579 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1580
1581 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1582 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1583 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1584 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1585 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1586 interfaces should be used instead.
1587
1588 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1589
1590 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1591 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1592 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1593 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1594 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1595 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1596 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1597 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1598
1599 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1600 removed.
1601
1602 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
1603 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
1604 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1605 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1606
1607 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1608 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1609 default.
1610
1611 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1612 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1613 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
1614 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1615 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
1616
1617 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1618 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1619 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1620 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1621
1622 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1623 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1624 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1625 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1626
1627 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1628 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
1629
1630 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1631 exported by accident.
1632
1633 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1634 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1635 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1636
1637 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1638 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1639 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1640 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1641
1642 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1643
1644 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1645
1646 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1647 free instead.
1648
1649 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1650 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1651
1652 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1653 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1654
1655 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1656 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1657 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1658 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1659 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1660 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1661 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1662 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1663
1664 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1665 synced with the kernel:
1666
1667 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1668 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1669
1670 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1671 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1672 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1673
1674 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1675 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1676
1677 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1678
1679 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1680 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1681 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1682
1683 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
1684
1685 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1686 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
1687
1688 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1689 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1690 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1691 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
1692 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
1693
1694 Security related changes:
1695
1696 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
1697 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1698
1699 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1700 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1701
1702 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1703 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1704 (CVE-2010-3192).
1705
1706 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1707 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
1708
1709 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1710
1711 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1712 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1713 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1714 fields
1715 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1716 (CVE-2010-3192)
1717 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1718 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1719 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1720 ld.bfd is available
1721 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1722 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1723 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1724 x86 and other generic code
1725 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1726 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1727 incorrect
1728 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1729 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1730 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1731 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1732 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1733 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1734 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1735 resolver
1736 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1737 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1738 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1739 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1740 chillu characters
1741 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1742 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1743 receiving data
1744 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1745 whitespace
1746 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1747 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1748 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale AwajĆŗn / Aguaruna (agr)
1749 for Peru
1750 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1751 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1752 failures consistently
1753 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1754 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1755 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1756 frame-pointer on i386
1757 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1758 register
1759 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1760 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1761 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1762 generic c code is used
1763 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1764 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1765 around 4000
1766 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1767 (CVE-2017-12133)
1768 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1769 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1770 with -lieee
1771 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1772 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1773 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1774 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1775 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1776 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1777 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1778 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1779 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1780 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1781 remove()
1782 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1783 checked for errors.
1784 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1785 new posix_spawn implementation
1786 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1787 leads to lower CPU frequency
1788 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1789 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1790 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1791 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1792 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1793 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1794 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1795 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1796 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1797 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1798 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1799 not support gethostbyname4_r
1800 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1801 switching
1802 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1803 arenas
1804 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1805 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1806 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1807 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1808 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1809 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1810 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1811 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1812 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1813 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1814 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1815 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1816 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1817 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1818 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1819 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1820 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1821 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1822 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1823 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1824 retry value
1825 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1826 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1827 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1828 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1829 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1830 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1831 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1832 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1833 [21537] libc:
1834 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1835 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1836 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1837 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1838 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1839 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1840 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1841 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1842 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1843 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1844 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1845 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1846 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1847 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1848 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1849 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1850 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1851 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1852 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1853 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1854 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1855 issue on x86-64
1856 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1857 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1858 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1859 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1860 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1861 construction
1862 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1863 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1864 between_2_3
1865 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1866 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1867 conditions
1868 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1869 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1870 Hindi Locale
1871 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1872 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1873 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1874 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1875 locale
1876 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1877 leading to relocation crash
1878 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1879 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1880 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1881 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1882 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1883 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ā€˜pthread_attr_tā€™
1884 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1885 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1886 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1887 locale
1888 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1889 locale
1890 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1891 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1892 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1893 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1894 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1895 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1896 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1897 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1898 strings
1899 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1900 protector=all
1901 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (ā€œabdayā€) for
1902 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1903 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1904 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1905 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1906 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1907 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1908 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1909 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1910 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1911 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1912 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1913 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1914 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1915 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1916 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1917 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1918 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1919 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1920 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1921 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1922 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1923 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1924 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1925 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1926 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1927 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1928 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1929 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1930 with unicode 9.0
1931 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1932 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1933 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1934 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1935 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1936
1937 \f
1938 Version 2.25
1939
1940 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1941 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1942 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1943 Library.
1944
1945 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1946 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1947 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1948 the GNU C Library.
1949
1950 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1951 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1952 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1953 the GNU C Library.
1954
1955 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1956 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1957 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1958 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1959 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1960 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1961 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1962 will not.
1963
1964 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1965 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1966 many years.
1967
1968 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1969 means that in a future release, the macros ā€œmajorā€, ā€œminorā€, and ā€œmakedevā€
1970 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1971
1972 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1973 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1974 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1975 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1976 problem.
1977
1978 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1979 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1980 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1981
1982 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1983 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1984 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1985 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1986 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1987 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1988 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1989 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1990 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1991 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1992 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1993 WINT_WIDTH.
1994
1995 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1996
1997 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1998
1999 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2000 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2001 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2002
2003 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2004 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2005
2006 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2007 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2008
2009 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2010
2011 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2012
2013 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2014 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2015
2016 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2017
2018 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2019 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2020
2021 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2022 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2023
2024 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2025 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2026 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2027
2028 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2029 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2030 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2031 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2032 effects of the memory clear).
2033
2034 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2035 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2036 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2037 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2038
2039 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2040 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2041 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2042 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2043 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2044 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2045
2046 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2047 have been added.
2048
2049 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2050 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2051 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2052 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2053 as large as several megabytes.
2054
2055 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2056 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2057 been removed.
2058
2059 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2060 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2061 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2062 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2063 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2064 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2065 be rebuilt by re-running ā€œ./configure; makeā€ in the Emacs build tree.
2066
2067 * The ā€œip6-dotintā€ and ā€œno-ip6-dotintā€ resolver options, and the
2068 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2069 ā€œno-ip6-dotintā€ had already been the default, and support for the
2070 ā€œip6-dotintā€ option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2071
2072 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2073 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2074 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2075 Internet.
2076
2077 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2078 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2079 They were already unimplemented.
2080
2081 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2082 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2083 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2084 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2085
2086 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2087 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2088 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2089 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2090 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2091
2092 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2093 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2094 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2095 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2096 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2097
2098 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2099 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2100 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2101 did not reflect that.
2102
2103 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2104 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2105 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2106 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2107 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2108 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2109 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2110 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2111
2112 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2113 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2114 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2115 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2116
2117 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2118 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2119 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2120 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2121
2122 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2123 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2124 guarantees.
2125
2126 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2127 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2128 make state changes.
2129
2130 Security related changes:
2131
2132 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2133 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2134 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2135 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2136 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2137
2138 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2139 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2140 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2141 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2142 (CVE-2015-5180)
2143
2144 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2145
2146 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2147 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2148 protector-all
2149 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2150 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2151 before it started waiting
2152 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2153 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2154 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2155 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2156 wrong type
2157 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2158 library linked with pthread
2159 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2160 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2161 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2162 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2163 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2164 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2165 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2166 when it shouldnt
2167 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2168 not
2169 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2170 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2171 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2172 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2173 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2174 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2175 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2176 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2177 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2178 termination
2179 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2180 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2181 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2182 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2183 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2184 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2185 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2186 causes a segmentation fault
2187 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2188 linking
2189 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2190 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2191 uninitialized GOT
2192 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2193 versions
2194 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2195 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2196 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2197 is always true.
2198 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2199 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2200 modes
2201 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2202 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2203 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2204 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2205 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2206 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2207 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2208 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2209 libpthread.a
2210 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2211 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2212 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2213 _res_hconf
2214 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2215 information.
2216 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2217 penalty
2218 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2219 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2220 cause transition penalty
2221 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2222 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2223 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2224 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2225 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2226 mcount.oS)
2227 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2228 Checking
2229 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2230 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2231 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2232 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2233 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2234 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2235 multi-arch
2236 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2237 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2238 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2239 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2240 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2241 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2242 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2243 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2244 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2245 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2246 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2247 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2248 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2249 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2250 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2251 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2252 glibc
2253 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2254 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2255 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2256 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2257 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2258 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2259 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2260 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2261 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2262 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2263 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2264 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2265 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2266 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2267 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2268 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2269 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2270 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2271 RES_USE_INET6
2272 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2273 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2274 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2275 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2276 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2277 wrong condition
2278 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2279 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2280 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2281 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2282 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2283 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2284 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2285 clang
2286 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2287 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2288 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2289 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2290 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2291 \f
2292 Version 2.24
2293
2294 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2295 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2296 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2297 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2298 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2299 architectures.
2300
2301 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2302 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2303 been included in previous releases.
2304
2305 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2306 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2307
2308 * The type ā€œunion waitā€ has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2309 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2310 instead of ā€œunion waitā€.
2311
2312 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2313 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2314 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2315 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2316 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2317 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2318 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2319
2320 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2321 API.
2322
2323 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2324 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2325 drop it.
2326
2327 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2328 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2329 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2330 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2331 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2332 extensions.
2333
2334 Security related changes:
2335
2336 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2337 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2338 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2339
2340 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2341 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2342 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2343 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2344
2345 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2346 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2347 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2348
2349 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2350 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2351 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2352
2353 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2354 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2355 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2356 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2357
2358 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2359
2360 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2361 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2362 of MS-DOS.
2363 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2364 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2365 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2366 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2367 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2368 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2369 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2370 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2371 CLDR data
2372 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2373 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2374 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2375 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2376 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2377 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2378 romanisation
2379 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2380 and +/-
2381 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2382 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2383 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2384 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2385 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2386 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2387 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2388 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2389 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2390 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2391 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2392 all locales
2393 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2394 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2395 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2396 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2397 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2398 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2399 execute
2400 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2401 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2402 -Wsystem-headers
2403 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2404 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2405 Romanian locale data
2406 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2407 symbol
2408 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2409 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2410 language
2411 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2412 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2413 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2414 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2415 machine
2416 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2417 description
2418 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2419 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2420 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2421 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2422 when using RTLD_NEXT
2423 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2424 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2425 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2426 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2427 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2428 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2429 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2430 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2431 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2432 Excavator core
2433 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2434 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2435 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2436 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2437 double range
2438 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2439 part zero incorrect
2440 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2441 equality tests
2442 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2443 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2444 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2445 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2446 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2447 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2448 glibc-2.22
2449 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2450 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2451 'tst-numeric.c'
2452 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2453 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2454 low part
2455 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2456 result
2457 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2458 unaligned stack
2459 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2460 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2461 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2462 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2463 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2464 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2465 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2466 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2467 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2468 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2469 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2470 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2471 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2472 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2473 modes
2474 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2475 server addresses
2476 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2477 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2478 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2479 response to getaddrinfo
2480 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2481 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2482 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2483 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2484 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2485 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2486 sometimes incorrect
2487 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2488 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2489 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2490 record types
2491 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2492 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2493 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2494 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2495 (CVE-2016-3075)
2496 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2497 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2498 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2499 resolving symbols
2500 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2501 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2502 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2503 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2504 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2505 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2506 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2507 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2508 gethosts
2509 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2510 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2511 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2512 (CVE-2016-3706)
2513 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2514 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2515 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2516 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2517 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2518 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2519 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2520 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2521 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2522 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2523 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2524 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2525 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2526 executable
2527 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2528 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2529 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2530 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2531 XPG3
2532 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2533 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2534 (CVE-2016-4429)
2535 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2536 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2537 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2538 AS not supporting AVX512
2539 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2540 sNaN argument
2541 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2542 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2543 argument
2544 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2545 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2546 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2547 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2548 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2549 eax=0x80000001
2550 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2551 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2552 subnormals
2553 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2554 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2555 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2556 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2557 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2558 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2559 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2560 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2561 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2562 input
2563 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2564 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2565 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2566 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2567 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2568 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2569 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2570 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2571 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2572 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2573 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2574 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2575 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2576 double rounding
2577 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2578 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2579 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2580 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2581 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2582 (Only arm/linux)
2583 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2584 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2585 fallbacks
2586 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2587 "invalid" exceptions
2588 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2589 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2590 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2591 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2592 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2593 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2594 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2595 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2596 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
2597 \f
2598 Version 2.23
2599
2600 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2601 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2602 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2603 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2604 89, 16061, and 18568.
2605
2606 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2607 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2608 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2609 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2610 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2611 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2612 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2613
2614 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2615 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2616 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2617
2618 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2619 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2620 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2621 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2622 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2623 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2624 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2625
2626 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2627 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2628 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2629 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2630 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
2631 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
2632 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2633 Ericsson.)
2634
2635 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2636 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2637 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2638 independent of the GNU C Library.
2639
2640 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2641 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
2642
2643 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2644 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2645 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2646 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2647 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2648 Linux kernel.
2649
2650 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2651 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
2652
2653 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2654 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2655 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2656 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2657 defining their own copy.
2658
2659 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2660 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2661 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2662
2663 Security related changes:
2664
2665 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2666 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2667
2668 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2669 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2670 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2671 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2672 (CVE-2015-8777)
2673
2674 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2675 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2676
2677 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2678 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2679
2680 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2681 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
2682 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
2683
2684 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2685 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2686 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2687 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2688 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2689 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2690 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2691 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2692 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2693 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2694 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2695 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2696 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2697
2698 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2699
2700 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate ƦĆøĆ„
2701 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2702 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2703 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2704 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2705 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2706 use `mkstemp'
2707 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2708 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2709 overflow/underflow errors
2710 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2711 overflow/underflow
2712 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2713 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2714 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2715 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2716 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2717 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2718 are not contiguous
2719 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2720 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2721 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2722 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2723 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2724 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2725 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2726 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2727 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2728 all exceptions
2729 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2730 arguments
2731 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2732 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2733 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2734 should include
2735 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2736 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2737 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2738 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2739 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2740 GNU/Linux
2741 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2742 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2743 arguments
2744 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2745 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2746 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2747 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2748 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2749 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2750 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2751 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2752 rounding results
2753 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2754 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2755 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2756 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2757 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2758 fails
2759 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2760 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2761 block boundary
2762 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2763 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2764 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2765 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2766 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2767 4.7?
2768 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2769 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2770 (related to lock elision)
2771 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2772 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2773 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2774 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2775 (CVE-2015-8779)
2776 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2777 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2778 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2779 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2780 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2781 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2782 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2783 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2784 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2785 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2786 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2787 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2788 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2789 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2790 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2791 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2792 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2793 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2794 contains a vector instruction exception.
2795 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2796 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2797 locales
2798 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2799 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2800 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2801 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2802 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2803 missing break ?
2804 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2805 32bit processes
2806 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2807 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2808 infinity
2809 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2810 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2811 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2812 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2813 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2814 be forced unloaded
2815 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2816 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2817 error: canā€™t find a register in class ā€˜R1_REGSā€™ while reloading ā€˜asmā€™
2818 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2819 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2820 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2821 statically too large
2822 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2823 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2824 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2825 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2826 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2827 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2828 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2829 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2830 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2831 FUTEX_SHARED
2832 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2833 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2834 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2835 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2836 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2837 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2838 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2839 opendir()
2840 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2841 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2842 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2843 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2844 signgam
2845 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2846 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2847 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2848 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2849 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2850 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2851 dependencies
2852 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2853 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2854 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2855 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2856 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2857 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2858 (CVE-2015-8776)
2859 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2860 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2861 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2862 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2863 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2864 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2865 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2866 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2867 contention
2868 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2869 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2870 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2871 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2872 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2873 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2874 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2875 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2876 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2877 rounding modes
2878 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2879 ILP32
2880 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2881 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2882 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2883 threshold
2884 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2885 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2886 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2887 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2888 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2889 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2890 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2891 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2892 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2893 pthread_setaffinity_np
2894 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2895 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2896 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2897 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2898 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2899 prelink
2900 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2901 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2902 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2903 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2904 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2905 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2906 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2907 bits/mathcalls.h
2908 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2909 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2910 for C99-based standards
2911 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2912 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2913 math-only
2914 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2915 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2916 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2917 disabled
2918 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2919 "inexact" exceptions
2920 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2921 arguments
2922 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2923 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2924 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2925 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2926 rules
2927 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2928 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2929 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2930 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2931 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2932 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2933 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2934 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2935 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2936 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2937 from 32bit
2938 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2939 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2940 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2941 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2942 subnormals
2943 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2944 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2945 error on 32-bit architectures
2946 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2947 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2948 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2949 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2950 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2951 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2952 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2953 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2954 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2955 -Os
2956 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2957 CPU's.
2958 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2959 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2960 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2961 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2962 architectures
2963 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2964 \f
2965 Version 2.22
2966
2967 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2968
2969 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2970 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2971 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2972 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2973 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2974 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2975 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2976 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2977 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2978 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2979 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2980 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2981 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2982 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2983 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2984 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2985 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2986 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2987 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2988 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2989
2990 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2991 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2992
2993 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2994 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2995 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2996 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2997 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2998 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2999
3000 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3001 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3002 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3003 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3004 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3005
3006 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3007 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3008 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3009
3010 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3011 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3012 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3013 17998.
3014
3015 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3016 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3017 condition in some applications.
3018
3019 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3020 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3021 pow, powf.
3022 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3023 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3024 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3025 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3026 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3027
3028 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3029 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3030 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3031 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3032
3033 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3034 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3035 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3036
3037 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3038 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3039
3040 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3041 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3042 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3043
3044 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3045 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3046 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3047 \f
3048 Version 2.21
3049
3050 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3051
3052 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3053 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3054 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3055 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3056 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3057 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3058 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3059 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3060 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3061 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3062 17892.
3063
3064 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3065 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3066 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3067 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3068 intended.
3069
3070 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3071 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3072 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3073 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3074 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3075 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3076
3077 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3078
3079 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3080 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3081 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3082
3083 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3084 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3085 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3086 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3087 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3088 effects being visible outside transactions.
3089
3090 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3091 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3092
3093 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3094
3095 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3096 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3097 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3098 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3099 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3100
3101 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3102 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3103
3104 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3105 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3106 format.
3107
3108 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3109 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3110 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3111
3112 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3113 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3114
3115 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3116
3117 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3118 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3119 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3120 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3121
3122 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3123 with newer versions of bison.
3124
3125 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3126 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3127 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3128 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3129 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3130 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3131 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3132 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3133 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3134 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3135 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3136 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3137 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3138
3139 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3140 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3141 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3142 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3143 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3144 \f
3145 Version 2.20
3146
3147 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3148
3149 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3150 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3151 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3152 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3153 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3154 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3155 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3156 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3157 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3158 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3159 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3160 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3161 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3162 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3163 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3164
3165 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3166 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3167 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3168 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3169 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3170 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3171 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3172 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3173 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3174 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3175
3176 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3177 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3178 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3179 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3180 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3181
3182 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3183
3184 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3185 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3186
3187 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3188 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3189 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3190 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3191 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3192 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3193
3194 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3195 from ports.
3196
3197 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3198 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3199 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3200 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3201 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3202 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3203 test macros defined.
3204
3205 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3206
3207 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3208 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3209 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3210 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3211 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3212 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3213 is not built.
3214
3215 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3216 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3217 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3218 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3219 invocation.
3220
3221 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3222 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3223 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3224
3225 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3226 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3227 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3228 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3229
3230 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3231 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3232 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3233 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3234 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3235 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3236 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3237 additional checks.
3238
3239 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3240 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3241 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3242 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3243 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3244 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3245 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3246 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3247 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3248
3249 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3250 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3251 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3252 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3253 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3254 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3255
3256 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3257 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3258 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3259 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3260 \f
3261 Version 2.19
3262
3263 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3264
3265 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3266 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3267 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3268 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3269 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3270 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3271 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3272 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3273 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3274 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3275 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3276 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3277 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3278 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3279 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3280 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3281 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3282 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3283
3284 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3285 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3286
3287 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3288 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3289 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3290 extension which uses __block.
3291
3292 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3293 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3294 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3295 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3296 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3297
3298 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3299 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3300 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3301 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3302 if malloc fails.
3303
3304 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3305 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3306 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3307 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3308 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3309
3310 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3311 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3312 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3313
3314 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3315 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3316 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3317 #15856, #15857).
3318
3319 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3320 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3321
3322 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3323 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3324
3325 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3326
3327 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3328 supported locales.
3329
3330 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3331
3332 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3333
3334 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3335 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3336 for which the C library was built.
3337
3338 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3339 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3340 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3341 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3342 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3343 in the following circumstances:
3344
3345 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3346
3347 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3348 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3349
3350 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3351 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3352
3353 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3354 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3355
3356 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3357
3358 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3359 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3360
3361 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3362
3363 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3364
3365 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3366
3367 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3368 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3369 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3370 disable some of those declarations.
3371
3372 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3373 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3374 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3375
3376 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3377 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3378
3379 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3380 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3381 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3382 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3383 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3384 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3385 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3386 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3387 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3388 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3389 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3390 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3391 require recompilation.
3392 \f
3393 Version 2.18
3394
3395 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3396
3397 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3398 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3399 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3400 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3401 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3402 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3403 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3404 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3405 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3406 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3407 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3408 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3409 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3410 15755, 15759.
3411
3412 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3413 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3414 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3415 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3416 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3417 understands and accepts the risks.
3418
3419 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3420 #15078).
3421
3422 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3423 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3424
3425 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3426 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3427 destructor calls to glibc.
3428
3429 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3430 output.
3431
3432 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3433 non-x86 architectures.
3434
3435 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3436
3437 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3438
3439 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3440 Richard Henderson.
3441
3442 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3443
3444 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3445 Richard Henderson.
3446
3447 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3448 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3449
3450 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3451
3452 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3453 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
3454
3455 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3456 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
3457
3458 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3459 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3460 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3461
3462 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3463 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3464 attributes of a process.
3465
3466 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3467 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3468 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3469 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3470 mutexes.
3471
3472 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3473 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3474
3475 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3476 \f
3477 Version 2.17
3478
3479 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3480
3481 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
3482 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3483 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3484 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3485 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3486 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3487 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3488 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3489 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3490 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3491 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3492 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3493 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3494 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3495 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
3496
3497 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3498
3499 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3500 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
3501
3502 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3503 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3504
3505 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3506
3507 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3508 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3509 zEnterprise z196.
3510 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3511
3512 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3513 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3514 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3515
3516 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3517 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3518
3519 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3520 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3521
3522 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3523 can be used with is 2.6.16.
3524
3525 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3526 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3527
3528 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3529 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
3530 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3531 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3532
3533 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3534 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3535
3536 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
3537 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
3538 default.
3539
3540 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3541 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3542 information in --help and --version output.
3543
3544 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3545 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3546 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3547
3548 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3549 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3550 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3551 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3552 when the mode is enabled.
3553
3554 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3555 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3556 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3557 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3558 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3559 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3560 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
3561
3562 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3563 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
3564 \f
3565 Version 2.16
3566
3567 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3568
3569 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3570 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3571 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3572 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3573 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3574 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3575 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3576 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3577 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3578 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3579 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3580 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3581 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3582 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3583 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3584 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3585 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3586 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3587 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3588 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3589 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3590 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3591 14277, 14278.
3592
3593 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3594 configuring glibc with:
3595 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3596 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3597 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3598
3599 * ISO C11 support:
3600
3601 + define static_assert
3602
3603 + do not declare gets
3604
3605 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3606
3607 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3608 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3609 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3610 implementation.
3611
3612 + timespec_get added
3613
3614 + uchar.h support added
3615
3616 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3617
3618 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3619
3620 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
3621
3622 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
3623
3624 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3626
3627 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3628 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3629
3630 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3631 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3632 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3633 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3634 existing applications.
3635
3636 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
3637 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3638 before 2.6.
3639
3640 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3641 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3642 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3643
3644 * New locales: mag_IN
3645
3646 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3647 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3648 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3649 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3650 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
3651
3652 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3653
3654 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3655 and Will Schmidt.
3656
3657 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3658
3659 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3660 without a previously built glibc.
3661
3662 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3663 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3664
3665 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3666 now supported for ARM processors.
3667
3668 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3669 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3670 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3671
3672 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
3673
3674 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3675 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3676 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3677 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
3678
3679 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3680 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3681 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3682 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3683
3684 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3685 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3686 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3687 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3688 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3689
3690 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3691 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3692 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3693 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
3694 \f
3695 Version 2.15
3696
3697 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3698
3699 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3700 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3701 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3702 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3703 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3704 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3705 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
3706
3707 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3708 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3709
3710 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3711 and support for initgroups lookups.
3712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3713
3714 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3715 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3716
3717 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3718 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3719
3720 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3721 on x86-32 and x86-64.
3722 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3723
3724 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
3725 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3726
3727 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3728 for x86-64 and x86-32.
3729 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3730
3731 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3733
3734 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3735 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3736
3737 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3739
3740 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3741 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3742
3743 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3744 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3745
3746 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3748
3749 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
3750
3751 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3752 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3753
3754 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3755 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
3756
3757 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
3758 \f
3759 Version 2.14
3760
3761 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3762
3763 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
3764 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3765 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
3766 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
3767 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3768 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3769 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
3770 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3771 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
3772 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
3773
3774 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3775 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3776 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
3777 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
3778
3779 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
3780 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3781 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
3782 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3783
3784 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
3785 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
3786
3787 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
3788 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
3789
3790 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
3791
3792 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3794
3795 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3796 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3797 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3798 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
3799 \f
3800 Version 2.13
3801
3802 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3803
3804 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3805 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3806 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3807 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3808 12378, 12394, 12397
3809
3810 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
3811
3812 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
3813
3814 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3815 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
3816 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3817 \f
3818 Version 2.12
3819
3820 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3821
3822 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3823 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3824 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3825 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
3826 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3827 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3828 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
3829 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
3830
3831 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
3832
3833 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3834
3835 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3836
3837 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3838 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3839 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3840
3841 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3842 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3843 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3844 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3845 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3846
3847 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
3848 \f
3849 Version 2.11
3850
3851 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3852
3853 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3854 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3855 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3856 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3857 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3858 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3859
3860 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3861 mkostemps64
3862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3863
3864 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
3865 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3866
3867 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3868 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3869
3870 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3871
3872 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
3873 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
3874 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
3875 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3876
3877 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
3878 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3879
3880 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3881 strstr, strcasestr.
3882 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3883
3884 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3885 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3886
3887 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3888 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3889
3890 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3891 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3892
3893 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3894 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3895 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3896 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3897 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3898 necessity is every process again.
3899 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3900
3901 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3902 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3903
3904 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3905 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3906
3907 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3908 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3909 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3910
3911 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3912 \f
3913 Version 2.10
3914
3915 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3916
3917 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3918 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3919 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3920 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3921 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3922
3923 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
3924 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3925
3926 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3927 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3928
3929 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3930 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3931
3932 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3933 now in POSIX.
3934
3935 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3936 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3937
3938 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3939 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3940
3941 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3942 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3943
3944 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3945 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3946
3947 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3948 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3949 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3950
3951 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3952
3953 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3954 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3955
3956 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3957 and extend existing format specifiers.
3958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3959
3960 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3962
3963 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3964 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3965 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3966 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3967 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3968 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3969 \f
3970 Version 2.9
3971
3972 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3973
3974 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3975 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3976 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3977 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3978 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3979
3980 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3981 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3982
3983 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3984 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3985
3986 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3988
3989 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3990 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3991 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3992
3993 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3994 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3995
3996 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3997
3998 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3999 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4000
4001 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4002 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4003 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4004 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4005
4006 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4007 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4008
4009 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4010 Sinhala)
4011 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4012
4013 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4014 \f
4015 Version 2.8
4016
4017 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4018
4019 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4020 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4021 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4022 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4023 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4024 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4025 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4026
4027 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4028
4029 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4030
4031 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4032 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4033
4034 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4035
4036 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4037 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4038
4039 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4041
4042 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4043 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4044 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4045
4046 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4047 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4048
4049 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4050 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4051
4052 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4054
4055 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4056 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4057 \f
4058 Version 2.7
4059
4060 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4061
4062 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4063 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4064 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4065 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4066 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4067
4068 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4069 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4070
4071 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4072
4073 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4074 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4075 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4076
4077 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4078 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4079
4080 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4081 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4082
4083 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4084
4085 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4086 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4087
4088 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4089 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4090
4091 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4092 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4093
4094 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4095
4096 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4097 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4098
4099 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4100 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4101 yo_NG.
4102
4103 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4104 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4105 \f
4106 Version 2.6
4107
4108 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4109
4110 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4111 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4112 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4113 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4114 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4115 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4116 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4117 4702, 4858
4118
4119 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4120
4121 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4122
4123 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4124 \f
4125 Version 2.5
4126
4127 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4128
4129 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4130 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4131 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4132 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4133 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4134 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4135 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4136 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4137 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4138
4139 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4140 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4141 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4142
4143 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4145
4146 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4147
4148 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4149
4150 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4151 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4152 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4153 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4154 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4155
4156 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4157 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4158 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4160
4161 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4162 Ulrich Drepper.
4163
4164 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4165
4166 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4167 Ulrich Drepper.
4168
4169 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4170
4171 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4172 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4173 \f
4174 Version 2.4
4175
4176 * More overflow detection functions.
4177
4178 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4179 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4180
4181 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4182 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4183 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4184 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4185 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4186 by Masahide Washizawa.
4187
4188 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4189 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4190
4191 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4192 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4193 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4194 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4195
4196 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4197 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4198
4199 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4200
4201 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4202 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4203 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4204
4205 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4206 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4207
4208 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4209 for compatibility with some other systems.
4210
4211 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4212 \f
4213 Version 2.3.6
4214
4215 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4216
4217 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4218 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4219 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4220 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4221 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4222 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4223
4224 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4225
4226 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4227
4228 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4229 \f
4230 Version 2.3.5
4231
4232 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4233
4234 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4235 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4236 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4237 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4238
4239 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4240 \f
4241 Version 2.3.4
4242
4243 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4244 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4245
4246 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4247 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4248 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4249
4250 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4251 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4252
4253 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4254 efficiently.
4255 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4256
4257 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4258 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4259 handling data.
4260
4261 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4262 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4263 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4264
4265 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4266 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4267
4268 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4269 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4270 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4271 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4272
4273 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4274 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4275 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4276 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4277
4278 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4279 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4280 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4281 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4282 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4283 \f
4284 Version 2.3.3
4285
4286 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4287 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4288
4289 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4290 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4291
4292 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4293 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4294
4295 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4297
4298 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4299 by Roland McGrath.
4300
4301 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4302 and Ulrich Drepper.
4303
4304 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4305 RFC 3484.
4306 \f
4307 Version 2.3.2
4308
4309 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4310 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4311 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4312 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4313 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4314 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4315 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4316 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4317 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4318
4319 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4320 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4321 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4322
4323 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4324
4325 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4326 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4327
4328 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4329 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4330
4331 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4332
4333 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4334 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4335
4336 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4337 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4338 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4339 of weak definition in ld.so.
4340
4341 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4342 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4343
4344 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4345 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4346 \f
4347 Version 2.3
4348
4349 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4350 charsets.
4351
4352 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4353 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4354
4355 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4356 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4357
4358 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4359 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4360
4361 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4362 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4363 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4364
4365 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4366 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4367
4368 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4369 implementation of regex.
4370
4371 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4372 Unicode 3.2.
4373
4374 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4375 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4376
4377 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4378 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4379 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4380
4381 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4382 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4383
4384 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4385 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4386 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4387
4388 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4389 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4390
4391 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4392 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4393 and Ulrich Drepper.
4394
4395 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4396 \f
4397 Version 2.2.6
4398
4399 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4400 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4401
4402 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4403 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4404 \f
4405 Version 2.2.5
4406
4407 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4408 128-bit long double format.
4409
4410 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4411 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4412
4413 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4414
4415 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4416
4417 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4418 as well.
4419
4420 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4421 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4422
4423 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4424 \f
4425 Version 2.2.4
4426
4427 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
4428 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
4429
4430 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4431 support Unicode 3.1.
4432
4433 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4434 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
4435
4436 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
4437
4438 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
4439 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4440 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4441
4442 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4443 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4444
4445 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4446 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
4447
4448 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
4449 \f
4450 Version 2.2.3
4451
4452 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
4453 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4454 in float, double, and long double format.
4455
4456 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
4457 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4458 128-bit long double format.
4459
4460 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4461 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4462 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4463 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4464
4465 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4466 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4467 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4468
4469 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4470 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
4471
4472 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4473 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
4474
4475 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4476 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4477 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
4478
4479 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4480 family of functions for Linux/S390.
4481
4482 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4483 of functions for Linux/x86.
4484
4485 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
4486 \f
4487 Version 2.2.2
4488
4489 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
4490 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4491 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4492 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4493 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4494 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4495 other headers.
4496
4497 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4498 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4499
4500 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4501 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4502 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4503 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4504
4505 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4506 locales. While
4507
4508 locale -a
4509
4510 only lists the names of the supported locales
4511
4512 locale -a --verbose
4513
4514 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4515 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4516 \f
4517 Version 2.2.1
4518
4519 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4520 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4521 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4522 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4523 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4524
4525 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4526
4527 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4528
4529 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
4530
4531 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4532 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4533 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
4534
4535 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4536 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4537
4538 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4539 changed from the default "C" locale.
4540
4541 * The usual bug fixes.
4542 \f
4543 Version 2.2
4544
4545 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4546 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4547 is in progress.
4548
4549 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4550
4551 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
4552
4553 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4554 obviously requires a database library being available.
4555
4556 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4557
4558 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
4559
4560 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4561 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4562
4563 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4564
4565 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4566 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4567 and Mark Kettenis.
4568
4569 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4570 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4571 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
4572
4573 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
4574 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4575
4576 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4577 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4578 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4579
4580 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4581 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4582 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4583 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4584
4585 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4586 structures for the wide character tables.
4587
4588 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4589
4590 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
4591
4592 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4593
4594 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4595 and Yutaka Niibe.
4596
4597 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4598
4599 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4600
4601 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4602
4603 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4604
4605 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4606
4607 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4608 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4609 implemented for Linux.
4610
4611 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4612 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4613 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4614 versions.
4615
4616 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4617 Masahide Washizawa.
4618
4619 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
4620 \f
4621 Version 2.1.3
4622
4623 * bug fixes
4624
4625 \f
4626 Version 2.1.2
4627
4628 * bug fixes
4629
4630 \f
4631 Version 2.1.1
4632
4633 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4634
4635 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4636
4637 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
4638
4639 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4640
4641 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
4642
4643 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
4644
4645 * Update timezone data files.
4646
4647 * lots of charmaps corrections
4648
4649 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
4650
4651 \f
4652 Version 2.1
4653
4654 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4655 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4656 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4657 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4658 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4659 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4660
4661 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
4662 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4663
4664 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
4665 symbol level.
4666
4667 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4668 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
4669
4670 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
4671
4672 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
4673 numbers.
4674
4675 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
4676
4677 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4678 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
4679
4680 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4681 library.
4682
4683 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
4684 functions from ISO C 9X.
4685
4686 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4687 real valued functions.
4688
4689 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
4690
4691 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4692
4693 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
4694
4695 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
4696
4697 * Optimized string functions have been added.
4698
4699 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
4700
4701 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4702
4703 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4704 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4705
4706 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4707 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4708
4709 user system wall
4710
4711 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
4712
4713 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
4714
4715 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
4716
4717 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4718
4719 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4720
4721 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
4722
4723 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4724 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
4725 horribly slow.
4726
4727 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4728 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
4729
4730 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
4731
4732 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
4733
4734 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4735 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4736
4737 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
4738
4739 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4740 Bambrough.
4741
4742 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4743 latest draft standards.
4744
4745 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4746
4747 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4748 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4749 addseverity NEW: Unix98
4750 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
4751 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4752 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4753 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4754 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4755 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4756 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4757 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4758 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4759 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4760 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
4761 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4762 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4763 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
4764 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4765 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4766 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4767 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4768 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4769 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4770 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4771 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4772 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4773 capget NEW: kernel
4774 capset NEW: kernel
4775 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4776 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4777 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4778 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4779 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4780 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4781 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4782 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4783 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4784 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4785 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4786 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4787 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4788 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4789 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4790 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4791 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4792 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4793 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4794 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4795 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4796 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4797 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4798 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4799 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4800 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4801 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4802 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4803 clearerr_locked REMOVED
4804 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4805 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4806 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4807 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4808 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4809 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4810 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4811 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4812 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4813 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4814 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4815 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4816 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4817 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4818 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4819 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4820 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4821 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4822 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4823 creat64 NEW: LFS
4824 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4825 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4826 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4827 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4828 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4829 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4830 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4831 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4832 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4833 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4834 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4835 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4836 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4837 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4838 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4839 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4840 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4841 endutxent NEW: Unix98
4842 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4843 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4844 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4845 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4846 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4847 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4848 fattach NEW: STREAMS
4849 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4850 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4851 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4852 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4853 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4854 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4855 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4856 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4857 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4858 feof_locked REMOVED
4859 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4860 ferror_locked REMOVED
4861 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4862 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4863 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4864 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4865 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4866 fflush_locked REMOVED
4867 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4868 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4869 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4870 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4871 fileno_locked REMOVED
4872 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4873 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4874 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4875 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4876 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4877 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4878 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4879 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4880 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
4881 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
4882 fopen64 NEW: LFS
4883 fputc_locked REMOVED
4884 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4885 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4886 freopen64 NEW: LFS
4887 fseeko NEW: Unix98
4888 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4889 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4890 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4891 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4892 ftello NEW: Unix98
4893 ftello64 NEW: LFS
4894 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4895 ftw64 NEW: LFS
4896 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4897 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4898 gamma_r REMOVED
4899 gammaf_r REMOVED
4900 gammal_r REMOVED
4901 getchar_locked REMOVED
4902 getdate NEW: Unix98
4903 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4904 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4905 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4906 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4907 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4908 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4909 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4910 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4911 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4912 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4913 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4914 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4915 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4916 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4917 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4918 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4919 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4920 iconv NEW: iconv
4921 iconv_close NEW: iconv
4922 iconv_open NEW: iconv
4923 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4924 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4925 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4926 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4927 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4928 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4929 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4930 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4931 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4932 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4933 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4934 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4935 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4936 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4937 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4938 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4939 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4940 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4941 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4942 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4943 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4944 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4945 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4946 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4947 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4948 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4949 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4950 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4951 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4952 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4953 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4954 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4955 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4956 lseek64 NEW: LFS
4957 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4958 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4959 mmap64 NEW: LFS
4960 moncontrol REMOVED
4961 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4962 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4963 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4964 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4965 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4966 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4967 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4968 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4969 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4970 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4971 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4972 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4973 nftw NEW: Unix98
4974 nftw64 NEW: LFS
4975 open64 NEW: LFS
4976 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4977 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4978 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4979 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4980 pread NEW: Unix98
4981 pread64 NEW: LFS
4982 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4983 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4984 profil_counter REMOVED
4985 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4986 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4987 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4988 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4989 putc_locked REMOVED
4990 putchar_locked REMOVED
4991 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4992 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4993 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4994 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4995 pwrite NEW: Unix98
4996 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4997 readdir64 NEW: LFS
4998 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4999 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5000 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5001 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5002 round NEW: ISO C 9x
5003 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5004 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5005 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5006 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5007 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5008 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5009 scandir64 NEW: LFS
5010 sendfile NEW: kernel
5011 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5012 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5013 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5014 sighold NEW: Unix98
5015 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5016 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5017 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5018 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5019 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5020 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5021 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5022 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5023 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5024 statfs64 NEW: LFS
5025 statvfs NEW: Unix98
5026 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5027 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5028 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5029 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5030 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5031 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5032 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5033 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5034 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5035 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5036 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5037 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5038 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5039 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5040 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5041 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5042 truncate64 NEW: LFS
5043 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5044 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5045 umount2 NEW: kernel
5046 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5047 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5048 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5049 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5050 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5051 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5052 waitid NEW: Unix98
5053 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5054 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5055 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5056 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5057 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5058 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5059 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5060 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5061 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5062 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5063 write_profiling REMOVED
5064 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5065 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5066 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5067 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5068 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5069 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5070 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5071 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5072 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5073 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5074 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5075 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5076 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5077 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5078 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5079 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5080 \f
5081 Version 2.0.6
5082
5083 * more bug fixes
5084
5085 \f
5086 Version 2.0.5
5087
5088 * more bug fixes
5089
5090 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5091
5092 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5093
5094 * rewrite of cbrt function
5095
5096 * update of timezone data
5097 \f
5098 Version 2.0.4
5099
5100 * more bug fixes
5101 \f
5102 Version 2.0.3
5103
5104 * more bug fixes
5105 \f
5106 Version 2.0.2
5107
5108 * more bug fixes
5109
5110 * add atoll function
5111
5112 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5113
5114 * fix math functions
5115 \f
5116 Version 2.0.1
5117
5118 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5119
5120 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5121
5122 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5123 the ELF dynamic loader.
5124
5125 * support for parallel builds is improved
5126 \f
5127 Version 2.0
5128
5129 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5130 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5131 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5132
5133 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5134 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5135 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5136 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5137 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5138 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5139 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5140 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5141 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5142 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5143 files in the ELF format.
5144
5145 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5146 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5147
5148 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5149 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5150 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5151 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5152 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5153 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5154 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5155 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5156 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5157 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5158 about dynamically linked binaries.
5159
5160 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5161 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5162 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5163 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5164 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5165
5166 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5167 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5168 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5169 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5170 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5171
5172 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5173
5174 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5175 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5176 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5177 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5178 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5179 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5180 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5181 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5182 NSS services available.
5183
5184 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5185 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5186 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5187
5188 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5189 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5190 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5191
5192 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5193 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5194 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5195 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5196
5197 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5198 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5199 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5200
5201 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5202 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5203 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5204
5205 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5206 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5207
5208 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5209 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5210 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5211 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5212
5213 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5214 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5215 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5216
5217 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5218 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5219 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5220 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5221 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5222 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5223 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5224 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5225
5226 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5227 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5228 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5229 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5230 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5231 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5232 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5233
5234 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5235 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5236 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5237 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5238 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5239 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5240
5241 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5242 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5243
5244 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5245 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5246 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5247
5248 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5249
5250 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5251 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5252 their use is discouraged.
5253
5254 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5255 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5256
5257 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5258 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5259
5260 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5261 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5262
5263 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5264 see <dirent.h>.
5265
5266 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5267 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5268 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5269 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5270 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5271
5272 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5273 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5274 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5275 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5276
5277 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5278 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5279
5280 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5281 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5282 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5283 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5284 number generator.
5285
5286 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5287 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5288
5289 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5290 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5291
5292 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5293 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5294 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5295 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5296
5297 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5298
5299 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5300 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5301 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5302
5303 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5304 for arithmetic and string handling.
5305
5306 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5307 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5308 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5309 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5310
5311 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5312 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5313 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5314 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5315 programs already written to use it.)
5316
5317 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5318 constants.
5319
5320 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5321 with 4.4 BSD.
5322
5323 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5324 a given effective group ID.
5325
5326 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5327 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5328 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5329 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5330
5331 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5332 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5333 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5334 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5335 doing the same thing.
5336
5337 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5338 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5339
5340 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5341 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5342
5343 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5344
5345 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5346 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5347 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5348 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5349 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5350
5351 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5352 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5353
5354 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5355 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5356 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5357 function.
5358
5359 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5360
5361 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5362 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5363 strings.
5364
5365 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5366 and writing the utmp file.
5367
5368 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5369 Thorsten Kukuk.
5370
5371 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5372 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5373 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5374
5375 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5376 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5377
5378 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5379 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5380 specification.
5381
5382 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5383 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5384 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5385 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5386
5387 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5388 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5389 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5390
5391 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5392 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5393 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5394 expression matcher.
5395
5396 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5397 functionality.
5398
5399 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5400 by Ulrich Drepper.
5401
5402 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5403
5404 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5405 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5406 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5407 \f
5408 Version 1.09
5409
5410 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5411
5412 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5413 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5414
5415 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5416 want to put themselves in the background.
5417
5418 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5419 run without an operating system.
5420
5421 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5422 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5423
5424 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5425 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5426
5427 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5428
5429 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5430 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5431 have YP (aka NIS).
5432
5433 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5434 conventions.
5435
5436 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5437 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5438 \f
5439 Version 1.08
5440
5441 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5442 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5443 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5444
5445 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5446 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5447
5448 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5449 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5450
5451 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5452
5453 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5454
5455 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5456 compatibility.
5457
5458 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5459 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5460 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5461
5462 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5463
5464 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5465 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5466 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5467
5468 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5469 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5470 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5471 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5472 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5473 on a block).
5474
5475 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5476 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5477 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5478 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5479 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5480 cross-compiler.
5481
5482 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5483 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5484 \f
5485 Version 1.07
5486
5487 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5488 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5489
5490 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5491 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5492 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5493
5494 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5495 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5496 address of the last character written.
5497
5498 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5499 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5500
5501 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5502 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5503
5504 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5505 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5506 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5507 you dereference this pointer.
5508
5509 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5510 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5511
5512 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5513 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5514 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5515 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5516
5517 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5518 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5519 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5520 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5521 \f
5522 Version 1.06
5523
5524 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5525 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5526 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5527 in Emacs or the `info' program.
5528 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
5529
5530 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5531
5532 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5533
5534 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5535 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5536
5537 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5538 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5539
5540 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5541 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5542
5543 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5544 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5545 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5546 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5547 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5548
5549 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5550 to the error code in `errno'.
5551
5552 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5553 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5554 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5555 malloc'd string.
5556
5557 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5558 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5559 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5560
5561 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5562 uniquely-named temporary file.
5563 \f
5564 Version 1.05
5565
5566 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5567 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5568 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5569
5570 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5571 characters.
5572
5573 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5574 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5575
5576 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5577 \f
5578 Version 1.04
5579
5580 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5581 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5582 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5583 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5584
5585 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5586 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5587 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5588
5589 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5590 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5591
5592 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5593 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5594 made itself into a shared library.
5595
5596 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5597 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5598
5599 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5600 with limited length.
5601
5602 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5603
5604 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5605
5606 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5607
5608 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5609 function for traversing a directory tree.
5610
5611 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5612 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5613 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5614 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5615
5616 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5617 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5618
5619 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5620
5621 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5622 things to your strings.
5623
5624 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5625
5626 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5627 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5628 supporting those systems.
5629
5630 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5631 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5632 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5633 configuration files.
5634
5635 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5636 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5637
5638 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
5639 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5640 in <strings.h>.)
5641
5642 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5643 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5644 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5645 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5646 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5647 required storage is not available.
5648
5649 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5650 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
5651
5652 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5653 latest files released from Berkeley.
5654 \f
5655 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
5656 Copyright information:
5657
5658 Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5659
5660 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5661 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5662 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5663 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5664
5665 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5666 of this document, or of portions of it,
5667 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5668 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5669 \f
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