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8 Version 2.32
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
13
14 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
15 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
16
17 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
18
19 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
20 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
21 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
22 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
23 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
24
25 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
26
27 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
28
29 Security related changes:
30
31 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
32 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
33 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
34
35 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
36 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
37
38 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
39 expanding ~user has been fixed.
40
41 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
42
43 [The release manager will add the list generated by
44 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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46 Version 2.31
47
48 Major new features:
49
50 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
51 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
52 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
53 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
54 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
55 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
56
57 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
58 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
59 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
60 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
61
62 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
63 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
64 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
65
66 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
67
68 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
69 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
70 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
71 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
72 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
73 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
74 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
75 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
76
77 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
78
79 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
80 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
81 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
82 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
83 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
84 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
85
86 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
87 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
88 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
89
90 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
91 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
92 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
93 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
94
95 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
96 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
97 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
98 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
99 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
100 made this no longer practical.
101
102 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
103 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
104 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
105 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
106 release.)
107
108 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
109 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
110 with the current time, use the localtime function.
111
112 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
113 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
114 using clock_gettime instead.
115
116 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
117 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
118 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
119 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
120 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
121
122 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
123 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
124 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
125 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
126
127 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
128 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
129 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
130 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
131 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
132 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
133
134 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
135 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
136 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
137 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
138 offset API.
139
140 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
141 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
142 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
143
144 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
145 configurations.
146
147 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
148 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
149 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
150 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
151 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
152
153 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
154 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
155 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
156 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
157 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
158 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
159 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
160 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
161
162 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
163 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
164
165 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
166 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
167 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
168 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
169 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
170 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
171
172 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
173
174 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
175 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
176 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
177
178 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
179 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
180 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
181
182 Security related changes:
183
184 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
185 environment variable during program execution after a security
186 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
187 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
188 program. Reported by Marcin Koƛcielnicki.
189
190 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
191
192 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
193 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
194 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
195 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
196 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
197 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
198 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
199 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
200 linking failure
201 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
202 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
203 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
204 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
205 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
206 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
207 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
208 constructors/destructors is not fatal
209 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
210 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
211 7408-2005
212 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
213 with localedef
214 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
215 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
216 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
217 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
218 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
219 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
220 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
221 utmp entries
222 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
223 ABSOLUTE ABI
224 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
225 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
226 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
227 (stringop-overflow error)
228 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
229 functions other can lead to crashes
230 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
231 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
232 unconditionally
233 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
234 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
235 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
236 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
237 still can fail with an error
238 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
239 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
240 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
241 initialized correctly
242 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
243 -frewrite-includes
244 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
245 value to an unsigned
246 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
247 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
248 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
249 protection
250 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
251 ifunc variant.
252 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
253 al. for Clang++
254 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
255 (Slovenian)
256 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
257 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
258 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
259 with -std=c11
260 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
261 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
262 part
263 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
264 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
265 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
266 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
267 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
268 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
269
270 \f
271 Version 2.30
272
273 Major new features:
274
275 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
276 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
277 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
278
279 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
280 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
281
282 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
283 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
284 to the callback function.
285
286 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
287
288 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
289 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
290 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
291
292 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
293
294 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
295 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
296 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
297 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
298 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
299
300 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
301 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
302 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
303 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
304 link time reference, is gone.
305
306 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
307 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
308 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
309 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
310 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
311 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
312 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
313 the clock choice at initialization time).
314
315 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
316 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
317 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
318
319 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
320
321 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
322 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
323 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
324 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
325 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
326 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
327 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
328 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
329 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
330
331 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
332 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
333 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
334 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
335 since glibc 2.17.
336
337 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
338 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
339
340 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
341 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
342
343 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
344 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
345
346 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
347 BIND_NOW flag.
348
349 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
350 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
351 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
352
353 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
354 header have been removed.
355
356 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
357 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
358 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
359 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
360
361 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
362
363 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
364
365 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
366 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
367
368 Security related changes:
369
370 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
371 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
372 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
373 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
374 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
375 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
376 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
377
378 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
379 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
380 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
381
382 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
383
384 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
385 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
386 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
387 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
388 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
389 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
390 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
391 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
392 invalid input drops valid char
393 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
394 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
395 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
396 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
397 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
398 malloc.h.
399 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
400 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
401 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
402 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
403 functions
404 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
405 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
406 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
407 for long double = double
408 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
409 long double = double
410 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
411 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
412 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
413 long timeouts
414 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
415 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
416 checking for NULL.
417 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
418 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
419 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
420 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
421 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
422 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
423 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
424 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
425 not the default "nor"
426 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
427 false positives, change to modern flexible array
428 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
429 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
430 compiler barriers.
431 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
432 unnecessary librt dependencies
433 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
434 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
435 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
436 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
437 unsorted chunk
438 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
439 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
440 to R_SPARC_H44
441 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
442 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
443 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
444 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
445 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
446 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
447 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
448 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
449 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
450 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
451 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
452 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
453 was not used
454 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
455 tests
456 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
457 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
458 time_t changes
459 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
460 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
461 kernels and break testing
462 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
463 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
464 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
465 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
466 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
467 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
468 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
469 -O3 -march=skylake
470 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
471 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
472 crash
473 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
474 linked glibc
475 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
476 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
477 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
478 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
479 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
480 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
481 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
482 always implemented in the same library
483 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
484 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
485 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
486 testroot
487
488 \f
489 Version 2.29
490
491 Major new features:
492
493 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
494 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
495
496 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
497 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
498 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
499 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
500 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
501 configured location.
502
503 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
504
505 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
506 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
507
508 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
509 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
510 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
511 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
512 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
513 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
514 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
515 process actually does not use HTM).
516
517 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
518 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
519 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
520 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
521 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
522 of the same name.
523
524 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
525 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
526 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
527 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
528 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
529
530 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
531 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
532 supported:
533 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
534 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
535
536 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
537 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
538 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
539 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
540 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
541 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
542 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
543
544 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
545 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
546 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
547
548 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
549
550 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
551 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
552
553 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
554 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
555 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
556 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
557
558 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
559 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
560 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
561 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
562 structures.
563
564 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
565 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
566 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
567 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
568 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
569 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
570
571 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
572 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
573 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
574 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
575 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
576
577 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
578 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
579 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
580
581 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
582
583 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
584
585 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
586 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
587
588 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
589 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
590
591 Security related changes:
592
593 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
594 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
595 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
596
597 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
598 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
599 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
600 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
601 Reported by H.J. Lu.
602
603 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
604 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
605 or command injection issues in applications.
606
607 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
608
609 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
610 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
611 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
612 thousands
613 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
614 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
615 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
616 --param options)
617 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
618 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
619 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
620 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
621 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
622 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
623 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
624 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
625 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
626 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
627 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
628 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
629 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
630 pointer argument is non-NULL
631 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
632 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
633 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
634 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
635 multithreads call popen
636 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
637 and pthread_create fails.
638 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
639 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
640 constructor
641 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
642 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
643 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
644 source tree
645 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
646 float
647 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
648 one error
649 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
650 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
651 linker
652 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
653 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
654 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
655 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
656 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
657 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
658 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
659 filesystems
660 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
661 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
662 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
663 functions
664 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
665 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
666 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
667 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
668 have wrong type
669 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
670 wrong type
671 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
672 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
673 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
674 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
675 threads
676 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
677 start.S
678 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
679 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
680 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
681 powerpc64le
682 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
683 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
684 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
685 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
686 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
687 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
688 strftime
689 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
690 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
691 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
692 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
693 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
694 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
695 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
696 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
697 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
698 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
699 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
700 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
701 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
702 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
703 tcache size
704 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
705 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
706 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
707 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
708 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
709 (CVE-2018-19591)
710 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
711 nearest rounding mode
712 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
713 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
714 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
715 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
716 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
717 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
718 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
719 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
720 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
721 error
722 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
723 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
724 using GCC 8
725 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
726 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
727 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
728 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
729 ppc64le
730 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
731 expected result
732 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
733 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
734 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
735 sigaltstack
736 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
737 answers will be rejected)
738 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
739
740 \f
741 Version 2.28
742
743 Major new features:
744
745 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
746 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
747 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
748 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
749 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
750 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
751 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
752 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
753 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
754 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
755 archive or binary locales.
756
757 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
758 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
759 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
760 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
761 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
762 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
763 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
764 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
765 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
766 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
767 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
768 validated for i686.
769
770 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
771 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
772 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
773 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
774 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
775 field) to indicate such support is required.
776
777 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
778 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
779 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
780
781 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
782 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
783
784 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
785 fMxaddfNx functions.
786
787 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
788 fMxsubfNx functions.
789
790 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
791 fMxmulfNx functions.
792
793 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
794 fMxdivfNx functions.
795
796 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
797 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
798 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
799 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
800 and Kashubian.
801
802 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
803 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
804
805 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
806 patches.
807
808 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
809 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
810 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
811 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
812 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
813 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
814 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
815 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
816
817 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
818 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
819 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
820 the fstatat64 function.
821
822 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
823 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
824 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
825 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
826 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
827 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
828 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
829 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
830 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
831
832 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
833 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
834 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
835 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
836 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
837 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
838 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
839 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
840 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
841 results in a load failure now.
842
843 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
844 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
845 <threads.h>:
846
847 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
848 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
849
850 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
851 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
852
853 - call_once for function call synchronization.
854
855 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
856 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
857
858 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
859
860 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
861
862 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
863
864 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
865 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
866 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
867
868 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
869 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
870 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
871 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
872 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
873 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
874
875 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
876 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
877 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
878 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
879 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
880 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
881 (Bug #1190.)
882
883 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
884 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
885 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
886 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
887 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
888 further explanation.
889
890 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
891 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
892 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
893
894 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
895
896 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
897 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
898 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
899
900 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
901 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
902 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
903 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
904
905 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
906 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
907 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
908 for this function instead.
909
910 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
911 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
912 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
913
914 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
915 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
916 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
917 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
918
919 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
920 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
921 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
922 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
923 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
924
925 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
926 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
927 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
928 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
929 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
930 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
931 such as libgcrypt.
932
933 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
934 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
935 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
936 enabled.
937
938 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
939 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
940 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
941
942 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
943 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
944 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
945 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
946 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
947 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
948
949 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
950 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
951 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
952 behavior in a future release.
953
954 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
955
956 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
957
958 Security related changes:
959
960 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
961 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
962 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
963 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
964
965 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
966 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
967
968 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
969 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
970 Izbyshev.
971
972 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
973 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
974 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
975
976 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
977
978 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
979 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
980 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
981 when __WORDSIZE != 64
982 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
983 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
984 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
985 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
986 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
987 14651
988 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
989 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
990 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
991 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
992 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
993 conversion is given
994 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
995 date
996 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
997 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
998 scope with -O1 and higher
999 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1000 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1001 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1002 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1003 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1004 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1005 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1006 horrible machine code)
1007 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1008 last constant.
1009 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1010 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1011 symbols
1012 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1013 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1014 defined
1015 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1016 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1017 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1018 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1019 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1020 fpscr.c'
1021 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1022 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1023 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1024 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1025 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1026 the base address
1027 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1028 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1029 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1030 open_verify
1031 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1032 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1033 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1034 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1035 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1036 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1037 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1038 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1039 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1040 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1041 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1042 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1043 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1044 dlopen
1045 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1046 AT_SECURE=1
1047 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1048 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1049 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1050 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1051 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1052 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1053 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1054 for Spanish with CLDR
1055 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1056 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1057 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1058 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1059 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1060 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1061 es_BO
1062 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1063 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1064 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1065 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1066 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1067 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1068 dlopen failures
1069 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1070 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1071 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1072 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1073 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1074 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1075 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1076 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1077 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1078 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1079 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1080 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1081 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1082 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1083 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1084 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1085 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1086 makecontext
1087 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1088 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1089 required
1090 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1091 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1092 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1093 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1094 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1095 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1096 disabled
1097 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1098 failure
1099 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1100 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1101 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1102 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1103 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1104 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1105 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1106 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1107 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1108 and libc build with -Os)
1109 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1110 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1111 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1112 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1113 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1114 that changes /etc/passwd
1115 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1116 (CVE-2018-11237)
1117 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1118 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1119 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1120 posix/regcomp.c
1121 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1122 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1123 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1124 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1125 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1126 AT_SECURE
1127 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1128 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1129 parser.c
1130 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1131 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1132 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1133 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1134 directed rounding
1135 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1136 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1137 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1138 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1139 lookup
1140 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1141 interposition
1142 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1143 DSO boundaries.
1144 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1145 <linux/time.h>
1146 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1147 checking
1148 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1149 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1150 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1151 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1152 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1153 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1154 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1155 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1156 processors
1157 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1158
1159 \f
1160 Version 2.27
1161
1162 Major new features:
1163
1164 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1165 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1166 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1167 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1168 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1169 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1170 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1171 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1172 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1173
1174 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1175 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1176 H.J. Lu from Intel.
1177
1178 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1179
1180 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1181
1182 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1183 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1184 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1185 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1186 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1187 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1188 from a security and performance perspective.
1189
1190 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1191 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1192 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1193 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1194
1195 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1196 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1197 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1198 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1199 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1200
1201 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1202 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1203 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1204 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1205 _Float128.
1206
1207 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1208 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1209 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1210
1211 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1212
1213 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1214 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1215 pkey_get.
1216
1217 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1218
1219 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1220
1221 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1222 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1223 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1224
1225 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1226 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1227 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1228 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1229 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1230 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1231 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1232
1233 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1234 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1235 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1236 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1237 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1238 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1239 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1240
1241 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1242 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1243 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1244 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1245 respectively.
1246
1247 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1248 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1249 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1250 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1251
1252 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1253 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1254 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1255
1256 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1257 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1258 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1259
1260 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1261 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1262 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1263
1264 - rv64imac lp64
1265 - rv64imafdc lp64
1266 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1267
1268 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1269
1270 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1271 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1272 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1273 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1274 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1275 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1276 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1277 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1278 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1279 fix this.
1280
1281 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1282 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1283 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1284
1285 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1286 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1287 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1288 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1289 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1290 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1291 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1292 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1293 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1294 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1295 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1296 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1297 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1298 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1299 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1300 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1301 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1302 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1303 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1304 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1305 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1306 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1307 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1308 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1309 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1310 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1311
1312 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1313 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1314
1315 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1316 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1317 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1318 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1319 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1320 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1321 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1322
1323 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1324 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1325 exp10l for these functions instead.
1326
1327 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1328 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1329 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1330
1331 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1332 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1333 ignored.
1334
1335 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1336 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1337 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1338 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1339
1340 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1341 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1342
1343 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1344 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1345
1346 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1347 programs.
1348
1349 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1350
1351 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1352 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1353 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1354 instead.
1355
1356 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1357 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1358 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1359 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1360 use, but predates the bits convention.
1361
1362 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1363
1364 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1365 subdirectory.
1366
1367 Security related changes:
1368
1369 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1370 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1371 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1372 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1373 script.)
1374
1375 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1376 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1377 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1378 Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
1379
1380 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1381 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1382 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1383 of service.
1384
1385 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1386 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1387 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim RĂŒhsen.
1388
1389 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1390 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1391 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1392 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1393
1394 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1395 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1396 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1397 Qualys.
1398
1399 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1400 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1401 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1402 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1403 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1404
1405 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1406 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1407 current directory.
1408
1409 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1410 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1411 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1412
1413 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1414 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1415 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1416
1417 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1418 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1419 small, instead of NULL.
1420
1421 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1422
1423 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1424 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1425 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1426 locale
1427 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1428 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1429 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1430 cases
1431 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1432 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1433 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1434 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1435 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1436 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1437 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1438 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1439 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1440 "Bangla"
1441 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1442 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1443 width Latin characters
1444 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1445 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1446 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1447 letters
1448 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1449 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1450 (CVE-2009-5064)
1451 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1452 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1453 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1454 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1455 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1456 if malloc succeeded
1457 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1458 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1459 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1460 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1461 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1462 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1463 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1464 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1465 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1466 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1467 U+309A
1468 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1469 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1470 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1471 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1472 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1473 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1474 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1475 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new MĂ­skitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1476 for Nicaragua
1477 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1478 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1479 are not found.
1480 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1481 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1482 access
1483 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1484 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1485 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1486 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1487 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1488 __regcall calling convention
1489 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1490 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1491 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1492 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1493 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1494 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1495 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1496 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1497 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1498 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1499 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1500 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1501 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1502 locale
1503 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1504 protector=all
1505 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1506 wcwidth
1507 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1508 consistency check failures
1509 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1510 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1511 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1512 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1513 PIE
1514 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1515 locales
1516 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1517 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1518 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1519 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1520 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1521 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1522 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1523 on memory allocation failure
1524 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1525 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1526 the suspect)
1527 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1528 default (i386)
1529 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1530 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1531 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1532 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1533 instead of EAI_NODATA
1534 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1535 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1536 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1537 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1538 implementation
1539 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1540 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1541 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1542 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1543 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1544 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1545 allocation in syscall loops)
1546 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1547 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1548 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1549 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1550 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1551 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1552 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1553 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1554 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1555 occur with -O3
1556 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1557 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1558 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1559 amounts)
1560 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1561 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1562 niu_NZ
1563 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1564 checks
1565 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1566 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1567 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1568 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1569 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1570 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1571 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1572 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1573 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1574 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1575 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1576 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1577 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1578 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1579 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1580 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1581 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1582 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1583 parsing after OOM
1584 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1585 object
1586 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1587 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1588 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1589 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1590 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1591 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1592 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1593 ppc64le
1594 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1595 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1596 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1597 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1598 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1599 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1600 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1601 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1602 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1603 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1604 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1605 math_force_eval
1606 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1607 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1608 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1609 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1610 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1611 the svid compat wrapper
1612 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1613 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1614 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1615 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1616 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1617 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1618 --verbose.
1619 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1620 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1621 to 2.26
1622 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1623 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1624 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1625 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1626 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1627 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1628 (CVE-2017-15804)
1629 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1630 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1631 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1632 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1633 failure."
1634 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1635 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1636 -m32
1637 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1638 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1639 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1640 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1641 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1642 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1643 inside the ASCII printable range
1644 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1645 -mlong-double-64
1646 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1647 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1648 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1649 Internet
1650 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1651 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1652 backslash
1653 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1654 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1655 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1656 heaps in an arena
1657 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1658 networking interface
1659 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1660 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1661 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1662 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1663 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1664 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1665 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1666 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1667 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1668 order
1669 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1670 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1671 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1672 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1673 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1674 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1675 same as for Croatian
1676 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1677 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1678 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1679 for initial thread"
1680 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1681 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1682 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1683 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1684 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1685 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1686 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1687 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1688 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1689 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1690 modified in case of success
1691 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1692 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1693 success
1694 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1695 stack-protector=all
1696 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1697 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1698 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1699 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1700 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1701 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1702 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1703 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1704 adding it on top
1705 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1706 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1707 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1708 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1709 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1710 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1711 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1712 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1713 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1714 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1715 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1716 elision and tunables
1717 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1718 "invalid" exception
1719 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1720 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1721 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1722 exception
1723 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1724 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1725 power4
1726 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1727 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1728 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1729 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1730 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1731 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1732 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1733 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1734 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
1735
1736 \f
1737 Version 2.26
1738
1739 Major new features:
1740
1741 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1742 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1743 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1744 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1745 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1746 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1747 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1748
1749 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1750 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
1751 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1752 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1753 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1754 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1755 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
1756
1757 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1758 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1759 Egmont Koblinger.
1760
1761 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
1762
1763 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1764 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1765 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
1766
1767 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1768 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1769 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1770 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1771 object are still limited to six search domains.
1772
1773 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1774 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1775 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
1776
1777 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1778 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
1779
1780 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1781 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1782 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1783 Dennis Wölfing and RĂŒdiger Sonderfeld.
1784
1785 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1786 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1787 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1788 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
1789
1790 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1791 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1792 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1793 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
1794
1795 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1796 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1797 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
1798
1799 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
1800 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1801 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1802 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
1803
1804 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
1805 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1806 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1807 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1808 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1809
1810 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1811 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1812 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1813 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1814 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1815 interfaces should be used instead.
1816
1817 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1818
1819 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1820 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1821 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1822 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1823 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1824 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1825 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1826 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1827
1828 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1829 removed.
1830
1831 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
1832 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
1833 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1834 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1835
1836 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1837 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1838 default.
1839
1840 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1841 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1842 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
1843 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1844 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
1845
1846 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1847 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1848 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1849 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1850
1851 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1852 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1853 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1854 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1855
1856 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1857 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
1858
1859 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1860 exported by accident.
1861
1862 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1863 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1864 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1865
1866 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1867 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1868 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1869 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1870
1871 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1872
1873 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1874
1875 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1876 free instead.
1877
1878 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1879 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1880
1881 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1882 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1883
1884 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1885 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1886 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1887 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1888 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1889 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1890 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1891 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1892
1893 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1894 synced with the kernel:
1895
1896 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1897 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1898
1899 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1900 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1901 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1902
1903 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1904 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1905
1906 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1907
1908 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1909 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1910 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1911
1912 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
1913
1914 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1915 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
1916
1917 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1918 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1919 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1920 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
1921 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
1922
1923 Security related changes:
1924
1925 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
1926 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1927
1928 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1929 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1930
1931 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1932 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1933 (CVE-2010-3192).
1934
1935 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1936 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
1937
1938 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1939
1940 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1941 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1942 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1943 fields
1944 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1945 (CVE-2010-3192)
1946 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1947 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1948 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1949 ld.bfd is available
1950 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1951 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1952 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1953 x86 and other generic code
1954 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1955 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1956 incorrect
1957 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1958 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1959 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1960 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1961 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1962 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1963 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1964 resolver
1965 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1966 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1967 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1968 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1969 chillu characters
1970 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1971 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1972 receiving data
1973 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1974 whitespace
1975 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1976 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1977 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale AwajĂșn / Aguaruna (agr)
1978 for Peru
1979 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1980 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1981 failures consistently
1982 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1983 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1984 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1985 frame-pointer on i386
1986 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1987 register
1988 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1989 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1990 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1991 generic c code is used
1992 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1993 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1994 around 4000
1995 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1996 (CVE-2017-12133)
1997 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1998 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1999 with -lieee
2000 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2001 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2002 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2003 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2004 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2005 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2006 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2007 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2008 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2009 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2010 remove()
2011 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2012 checked for errors.
2013 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2014 new posix_spawn implementation
2015 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2016 leads to lower CPU frequency
2017 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2018 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2019 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2020 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2021 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2022 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2023 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2024 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2025 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2026 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2027 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2028 not support gethostbyname4_r
2029 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2030 switching
2031 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2032 arenas
2033 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2034 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2035 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2036 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2037 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2038 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2039 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2040 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2041 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2042 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2043 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2044 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2045 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2046 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2047 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2048 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2049 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2050 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2051 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2052 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2053 retry value
2054 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2055 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2056 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2057 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2058 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2059 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2060 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2061 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2062 [21537] libc:
2063 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2064 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2065 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2066 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2067 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2068 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2069 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2070 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2071 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2072 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2073 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2074 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2075 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2076 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2077 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2078 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2079 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2080 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2081 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2082 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2083 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2084 issue on x86-64
2085 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2086 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2087 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2088 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2089 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2090 construction
2091 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2092 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2093 between_2_3
2094 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2095 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2096 conditions
2097 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2098 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2099 Hindi Locale
2100 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2101 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2102 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2103 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2104 locale
2105 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2106 leading to relocation crash
2107 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2108 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2109 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2110 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2111 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2112 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2113 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2114 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2115 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2116 locale
2117 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2118 locale
2119 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2120 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2121 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2122 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2123 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2124 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2125 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2126 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2127 strings
2128 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2129 protector=all
2130 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2131 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2132 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2133 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2134 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2135 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2136 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2137 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2138 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2139 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2140 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2141 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2142 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2143 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2144 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2145 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2146 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2147 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2148 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2149 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2150 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2151 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2152 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2153 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2154 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2155 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2156 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2157 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2158 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2159 with unicode 9.0
2160 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2161 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2162 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2163 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2164 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2165
2166 \f
2167 Version 2.25
2168
2169 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2170 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2171 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2172 Library.
2173
2174 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2175 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2176 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2177 the GNU C Library.
2178
2179 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2180 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2181 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2182 the GNU C Library.
2183
2184 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2185 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2186 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2187 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2188 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2189 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2190 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2191 will not.
2192
2193 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2194 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2195 many years.
2196
2197 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2198 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2199 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2200
2201 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2202 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2203 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2204 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2205 problem.
2206
2207 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2208 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2209 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2210
2211 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2212 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2213 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2214 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2215 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2216 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2217 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2218 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2219 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2220 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2221 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2222 WINT_WIDTH.
2223
2224 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2225
2226 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2227
2228 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2229 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2230 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2231
2232 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2233 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2234
2235 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2236 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2237
2238 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2239
2240 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2241
2242 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2243 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2244
2245 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2246
2247 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2248 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2249
2250 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2251 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2252
2253 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2254 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2255 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2256
2257 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2258 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2259 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2260 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2261 effects of the memory clear).
2262
2263 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2264 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2265 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2266 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2267
2268 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2269 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2270 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2271 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2272 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2273 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2274
2275 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2276 have been added.
2277
2278 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2279 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2280 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2281 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2282 as large as several megabytes.
2283
2284 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2285 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2286 been removed.
2287
2288 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2289 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2290 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2291 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2292 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2293 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2294 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2295
2296 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2297 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2298 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2299 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2300
2301 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2302 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2303 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2304 Internet.
2305
2306 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2307 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2308 They were already unimplemented.
2309
2310 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2311 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2312 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2313 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2314
2315 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2316 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2317 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2318 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2319 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2320
2321 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2322 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2323 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2324 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2325 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2326
2327 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2328 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2329 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2330 did not reflect that.
2331
2332 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2333 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2334 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2335 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2336 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2337 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2338 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2339 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2340
2341 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2342 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2343 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2344 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2345
2346 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2347 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2348 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2349 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2350
2351 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2352 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2353 guarantees.
2354
2355 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2356 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2357 make state changes.
2358
2359 Security related changes:
2360
2361 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2362 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2363 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2364 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2365 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2366
2367 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2368 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2369 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2370 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2371 (CVE-2015-5180)
2372
2373 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2374
2375 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2376 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2377 protector-all
2378 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2379 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2380 before it started waiting
2381 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2382 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2383 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2384 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2385 wrong type
2386 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2387 library linked with pthread
2388 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2389 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2390 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2391 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2392 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2393 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2394 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2395 when it shouldnt
2396 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2397 not
2398 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2399 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2400 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2401 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2402 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2403 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2404 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2405 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2406 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2407 termination
2408 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2409 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2410 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2411 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2412 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2413 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2414 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2415 causes a segmentation fault
2416 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2417 linking
2418 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2419 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2420 uninitialized GOT
2421 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2422 versions
2423 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2424 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2425 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2426 is always true.
2427 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2428 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2429 modes
2430 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2431 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2432 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2433 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2434 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2435 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2436 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2437 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2438 libpthread.a
2439 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2440 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2441 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2442 _res_hconf
2443 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2444 information.
2445 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2446 penalty
2447 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2448 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2449 cause transition penalty
2450 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2451 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2452 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2453 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2454 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2455 mcount.oS)
2456 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2457 Checking
2458 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2459 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2460 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2461 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2462 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2463 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2464 multi-arch
2465 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2466 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2467 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2468 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2469 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2470 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2471 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2472 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2473 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2474 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2475 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2476 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2477 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2478 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2479 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2480 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2481 glibc
2482 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2483 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2484 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2485 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2486 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2487 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2488 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2489 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2490 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2491 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2492 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2493 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2494 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2495 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2496 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2497 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2498 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2499 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2500 RES_USE_INET6
2501 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2502 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2503 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2504 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2505 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2506 wrong condition
2507 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2508 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2509 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2510 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2511 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2512 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2513 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2514 clang
2515 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2516 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2517 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2518 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2519 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2520 \f
2521 Version 2.24
2522
2523 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2524 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2525 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2526 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2527 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2528 architectures.
2529
2530 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2531 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2532 been included in previous releases.
2533
2534 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2535 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2536
2537 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2538 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2539 instead of “union wait”.
2540
2541 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2542 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2543 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2544 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2545 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2546 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2547 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2548
2549 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2550 API.
2551
2552 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2553 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2554 drop it.
2555
2556 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2557 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2558 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2559 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2560 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2561 extensions.
2562
2563 Security related changes:
2564
2565 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2566 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2567 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2568
2569 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2570 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2571 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2572 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
2573
2574 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2575 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2576 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2577
2578 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2579 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2580 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2581
2582 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2583 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2584 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2585 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2586
2587 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2588
2589 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2590 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2591 of MS-DOS.
2592 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2593 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2594 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2595 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2596 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2597 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2598 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2599 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2600 CLDR data
2601 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2602 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2603 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2604 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2605 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2606 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2607 romanisation
2608 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2609 and +/-
2610 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2611 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2612 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2613 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2614 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2615 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2616 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2617 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2618 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2619 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2620 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2621 all locales
2622 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2623 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2624 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2625 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2626 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2627 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2628 execute
2629 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2630 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2631 -Wsystem-headers
2632 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2633 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2634 Romanian locale data
2635 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2636 symbol
2637 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2638 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2639 language
2640 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2641 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2642 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2643 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2644 machine
2645 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2646 description
2647 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2648 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2649 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2650 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2651 when using RTLD_NEXT
2652 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2653 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2654 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2655 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2656 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2657 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2658 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2659 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2660 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2661 Excavator core
2662 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2663 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2664 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2665 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2666 double range
2667 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2668 part zero incorrect
2669 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2670 equality tests
2671 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2672 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2673 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2674 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2675 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2676 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2677 glibc-2.22
2678 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2679 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2680 'tst-numeric.c'
2681 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2682 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2683 low part
2684 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2685 result
2686 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2687 unaligned stack
2688 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2689 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2690 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2691 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2692 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2693 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2694 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2695 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2696 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2697 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2698 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2699 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2700 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2701 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2702 modes
2703 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2704 server addresses
2705 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2706 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2707 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2708 response to getaddrinfo
2709 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2710 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2711 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2712 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2713 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2714 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2715 sometimes incorrect
2716 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2717 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2718 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2719 record types
2720 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2721 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2722 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2723 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2724 (CVE-2016-3075)
2725 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2726 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2727 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2728 resolving symbols
2729 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2730 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2731 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2732 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2733 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2734 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2735 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2736 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2737 gethosts
2738 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2739 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2740 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2741 (CVE-2016-3706)
2742 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2743 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2744 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2745 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2746 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2747 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2748 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2749 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2750 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2751 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2752 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2753 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2754 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2755 executable
2756 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2757 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2758 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2759 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2760 XPG3
2761 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2762 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2763 (CVE-2016-4429)
2764 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2765 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2766 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2767 AS not supporting AVX512
2768 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2769 sNaN argument
2770 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2771 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2772 argument
2773 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2774 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2775 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2776 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2777 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2778 eax=0x80000001
2779 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2780 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2781 subnormals
2782 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2783 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2784 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2785 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2786 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2787 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2788 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2789 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2790 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2791 input
2792 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2793 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2794 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2795 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2796 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2797 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2798 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2799 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2800 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2801 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2802 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2803 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2804 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2805 double rounding
2806 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2807 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2808 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2809 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2810 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2811 (Only arm/linux)
2812 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2813 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2814 fallbacks
2815 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2816 "invalid" exceptions
2817 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2818 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2819 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2820 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2821 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2822 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2823 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2824 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2825 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
2826 \f
2827 Version 2.23
2828
2829 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2830 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2831 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2832 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2833 89, 16061, and 18568.
2834
2835 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2836 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2837 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2838 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2839 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2840 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2841 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2842
2843 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2844 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2845 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2846
2847 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2848 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2849 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2850 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2851 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2852 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2853 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2854
2855 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2856 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2857 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2858 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2859 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
2860 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
2861 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2862 Ericsson.)
2863
2864 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2865 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2866 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2867 independent of the GNU C Library.
2868
2869 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2870 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
2871
2872 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2873 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2874 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2875 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2876 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2877 Linux kernel.
2878
2879 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2880 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
2881
2882 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2883 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2884 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2885 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2886 defining their own copy.
2887
2888 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2889 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2890 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2891
2892 Security related changes:
2893
2894 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2895 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2896
2897 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2898 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2899 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2900 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2901 (CVE-2015-8777)
2902
2903 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2904 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2905
2906 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2907 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2908
2909 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2910 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
2911 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
2912
2913 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2914 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2915 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2916 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2917 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2918 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2919 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2920 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2921 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2922 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2923 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2924 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2925 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2926
2927 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2928
2929 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate ÊÞÄ
2930 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2931 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2932 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2933 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2934 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2935 use `mkstemp'
2936 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2937 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2938 overflow/underflow errors
2939 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2940 overflow/underflow
2941 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2942 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2943 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2944 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2945 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2946 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2947 are not contiguous
2948 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2949 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2950 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2951 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2952 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2953 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2954 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2955 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2956 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2957 all exceptions
2958 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2959 arguments
2960 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2961 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2962 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2963 should include
2964 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2965 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2966 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2967 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2968 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2969 GNU/Linux
2970 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2971 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2972 arguments
2973 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2974 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2975 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2976 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2977 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2978 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2979 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2980 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2981 rounding results
2982 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2983 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2984 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2985 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2986 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2987 fails
2988 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2989 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2990 block boundary
2991 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2992 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2993 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2994 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2995 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2996 4.7?
2997 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2998 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2999 (related to lock elision)
3000 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3001 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3002 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3003 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3004 (CVE-2015-8779)
3005 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3006 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3007 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3008 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3009 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3010 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3011 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3012 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3013 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3014 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3015 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3016 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3017 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3018 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3019 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3020 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3021 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3022 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3023 contains a vector instruction exception.
3024 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3025 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3026 locales
3027 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3028 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3029 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3030 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3031 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3032 missing break ?
3033 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3034 32bit processes
3035 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3036 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3037 infinity
3038 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3039 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3040 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3041 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3042 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3043 be forced unloaded
3044 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3045 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3046 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3047 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3048 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3049 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3050 statically too large
3051 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3052 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3053 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3054 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3055 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3056 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3057 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3058 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3059 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3060 FUTEX_SHARED
3061 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3062 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3063 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3064 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3065 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3066 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3067 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3068 opendir()
3069 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3070 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3071 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3072 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3073 signgam
3074 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3075 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3076 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3077 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3078 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3079 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3080 dependencies
3081 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3082 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3083 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3084 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3085 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3086 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3087 (CVE-2015-8776)
3088 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3089 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3090 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3091 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3092 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3093 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3094 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3095 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3096 contention
3097 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3098 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3099 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3100 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3101 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3102 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3103 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3104 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3105 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3106 rounding modes
3107 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3108 ILP32
3109 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3110 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3111 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3112 threshold
3113 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3114 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3115 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3116 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3117 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3118 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3119 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3120 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3121 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3122 pthread_setaffinity_np
3123 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3124 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3125 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3126 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3127 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3128 prelink
3129 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3130 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3131 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3132 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3133 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3134 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3135 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3136 bits/mathcalls.h
3137 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3138 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3139 for C99-based standards
3140 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3141 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3142 math-only
3143 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3144 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3145 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3146 disabled
3147 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3148 "inexact" exceptions
3149 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3150 arguments
3151 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3152 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3153 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3154 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3155 rules
3156 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3157 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3158 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3159 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3160 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3161 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3162 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3163 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3164 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3165 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3166 from 32bit
3167 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3168 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3169 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3170 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3171 subnormals
3172 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3173 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3174 error on 32-bit architectures
3175 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3176 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3177 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3178 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3179 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3180 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3181 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3182 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3183 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3184 -Os
3185 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3186 CPU's.
3187 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3188 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3189 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3190 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3191 architectures
3192 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3193 \f
3194 Version 2.22
3195
3196 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3197
3198 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3199 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3200 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3201 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3202 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3203 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3204 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3205 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3206 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3207 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3208 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3209 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3210 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3211 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3212 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3213 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3214 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3215 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3216 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3217 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3218
3219 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3220 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3221
3222 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3223 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3224 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3225 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3226 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3227 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3228
3229 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3230 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3231 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3232 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3233 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3234
3235 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3236 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3237 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3238
3239 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3240 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3241 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3242 17998.
3243
3244 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3245 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3246 condition in some applications.
3247
3248 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3249 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3250 pow, powf.
3251 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3252 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3253 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3254 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3255 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3256
3257 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3258 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3259 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3260 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3261
3262 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3263 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3264 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3265
3266 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3267 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3268
3269 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3270 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3271 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3272
3273 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3274 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3275 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3276 \f
3277 Version 2.21
3278
3279 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3280
3281 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3282 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3283 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3284 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3285 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3286 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3287 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3288 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3289 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3290 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3291 17892.
3292
3293 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3294 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3295 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3296 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3297 intended.
3298
3299 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3300 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3301 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3302 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3303 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3304 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3305
3306 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3307
3308 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3309 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3310 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3311
3312 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3313 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3314 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3315 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3316 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3317 effects being visible outside transactions.
3318
3319 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3320 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3321
3322 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3323
3324 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3325 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3326 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3327 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3328 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3329
3330 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3331 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3332
3333 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3334 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3335 format.
3336
3337 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3338 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3339 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3340
3341 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3342 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3343
3344 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3345
3346 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3347 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3348 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3349 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3350
3351 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3352 with newer versions of bison.
3353
3354 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3355 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3356 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3357 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3358 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3359 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3360 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3361 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3362 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3363 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3364 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3365 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3366 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3367
3368 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3369 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3370 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3371 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3372 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3373 \f
3374 Version 2.20
3375
3376 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3377
3378 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3379 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3380 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3381 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3382 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3383 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3384 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3385 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3386 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3387 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3388 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3389 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3390 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3391 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3392 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3393
3394 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3395 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3396 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3397 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3398 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3399 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3400 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3401 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3402 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3403 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3404
3405 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3406 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3407 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3408 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3409 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3410
3411 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3412
3413 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3414 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3415
3416 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3417 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3418 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3419 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3420 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3421 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3422
3423 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3424 from ports.
3425
3426 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3427 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3428 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3429 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3430 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3431 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3432 test macros defined.
3433
3434 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3435
3436 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3437 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3438 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3439 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3440 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3441 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3442 is not built.
3443
3444 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3445 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3446 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3447 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3448 invocation.
3449
3450 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3451 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3452 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
3453
3454 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3455 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3456 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3457 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
3458
3459 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3460 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3461 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3462 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3463 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3464 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3465 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3466 additional checks.
3467
3468 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3469 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3470 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3471 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3472 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3473 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3474 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3475 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3476 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
3477
3478 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3479 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3480 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3481 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3482 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
3483 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
3484
3485 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3486 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3487 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3488 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
3489 \f
3490 Version 2.19
3491
3492 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3493
3494 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3495 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3496 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3497 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3498 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3499 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3500 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3501 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3502 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3503 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
3504 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3505 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3506 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3507 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3508 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
3509 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3510 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3511 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
3512
3513 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3514 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3515
3516 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3517 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3518 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
3519 extension which uses __block.
3520
3521 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3522 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3523 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3524 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3525 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3526
3527 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3528 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3529 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3530 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3531 if malloc fails.
3532
3533 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3534 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3535 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3536 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3537 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
3538
3539 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3540 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3541 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3542
3543 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3544 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3545 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3546 #15856, #15857).
3547
3548 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3549 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3550
3551 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
3552 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
3553
3554 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3555
3556 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3557 supported locales.
3558
3559 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
3560
3561 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3562
3563 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3564 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3565 for which the C library was built.
3566
3567 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3568 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3569 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3570 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3571 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3572 in the following circumstances:
3573
3574 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3575
3576 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3577 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3578
3579 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3580 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3581
3582 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3583 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
3584
3585 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3586
3587 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3588 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3589
3590 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
3591
3592 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
3593
3594 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
3595
3596 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3597 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3598 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3599 disable some of those declarations.
3600
3601 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
3602 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3603 that did nothing) has also been removed.
3604
3605 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3606 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
3607
3608 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3609 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3610 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3611 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3612 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3613 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3614 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3615 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3616 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3617 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3618 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3619 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3620 require recompilation.
3621 \f
3622 Version 2.18
3623
3624 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3625
3626 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
3627 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3628 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
3629 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3630 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3631 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3632 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3633 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3634 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3635 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3636 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3637 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3638 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3639 15755, 15759.
3640
3641 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3642 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3643 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3644 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3645 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3646 understands and accepts the risks.
3647
3648 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3649 #15078).
3650
3651 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3652 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
3653
3654 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3655 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3656 destructor calls to glibc.
3657
3658 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3659 output.
3660
3661 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3662 non-x86 architectures.
3663
3664 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3665
3666 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3667
3668 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3669 Richard Henderson.
3670
3671 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3672
3673 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3674 Richard Henderson.
3675
3676 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3677 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3678
3679 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3680
3681 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3682 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
3683
3684 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3685 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
3686
3687 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3688 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3689 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3690
3691 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3692 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3693 attributes of a process.
3694
3695 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3696 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3697 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3698 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3699 mutexes.
3700
3701 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3702 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3703
3704 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3705 \f
3706 Version 2.17
3707
3708 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3709
3710 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
3711 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3712 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3713 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3714 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3715 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3716 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3717 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3718 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3719 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3720 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3721 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3722 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3723 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3724 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
3725
3726 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3727
3728 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3729 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
3730
3731 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3732 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3733
3734 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3735
3736 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3737 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3738 zEnterprise z196.
3739 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3740
3741 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3742 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3743 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3744
3745 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3746 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3747
3748 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3749 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3750
3751 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3752 can be used with is 2.6.16.
3753
3754 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3755 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3756
3757 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3758 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
3759 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3760 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3761
3762 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3763 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3764
3765 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
3766 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
3767 default.
3768
3769 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3770 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3771 information in --help and --version output.
3772
3773 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3774 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3775 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3776
3777 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3778 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3779 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3780 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3781 when the mode is enabled.
3782
3783 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3784 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3785 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3786 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3787 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3788 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3789 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
3790
3791 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3792 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
3793 \f
3794 Version 2.16
3795
3796 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3797
3798 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3799 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3800 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3801 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3802 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3803 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3804 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3805 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3806 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3807 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3808 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3809 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3810 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3811 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3812 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3813 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3814 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3815 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3816 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3817 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3818 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3819 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3820 14277, 14278.
3821
3822 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3823 configuring glibc with:
3824 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3825 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3826 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3827
3828 * ISO C11 support:
3829
3830 + define static_assert
3831
3832 + do not declare gets
3833
3834 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3835
3836 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3837 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3838 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3839 implementation.
3840
3841 + timespec_get added
3842
3843 + uchar.h support added
3844
3845 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3846
3847 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3848
3849 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
3850
3851 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
3852
3853 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3855
3856 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3858
3859 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3860 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3861 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3862 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3863 existing applications.
3864
3865 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
3866 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3867 before 2.6.
3868
3869 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3870 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3871 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3872
3873 * New locales: mag_IN
3874
3875 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3876 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3877 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3878 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3879 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
3880
3881 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3882
3883 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3884 and Will Schmidt.
3885
3886 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3887
3888 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3889 without a previously built glibc.
3890
3891 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3892 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3893
3894 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3895 now supported for ARM processors.
3896
3897 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3898 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3899 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3900
3901 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
3902
3903 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3904 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3905 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3906 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
3907
3908 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3909 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3910 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3911 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3912
3913 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3914 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3915 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3916 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3917 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3918
3919 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3920 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3921 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3922 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
3923 \f
3924 Version 2.15
3925
3926 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3927
3928 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3929 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3930 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3931 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3932 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3933 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3934 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
3935
3936 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3938
3939 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3940 and support for initgroups lookups.
3941 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3942
3943 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3944 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3945
3946 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3947 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3948
3949 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3950 on x86-32 and x86-64.
3951 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3952
3953 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
3954 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3955
3956 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3957 for x86-64 and x86-32.
3958 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3959
3960 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3962
3963 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3965
3966 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3967 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3968
3969 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3971
3972 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3973 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3974
3975 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3977
3978 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
3979
3980 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3982
3983 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3984 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
3985
3986 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
3987 \f
3988 Version 2.14
3989
3990 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3991
3992 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
3993 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3994 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
3995 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
3996 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3997 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3998 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
3999 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4000 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4001 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4002
4003 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4004 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4005 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4006 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4007
4008 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4009 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4010 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4011 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4012
4013 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4014 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4015
4016 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4017 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4018
4019 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4020
4021 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4023
4024 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4025 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4026 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4027 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4028 \f
4029 Version 2.13
4030
4031 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4032
4033 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4034 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4035 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4036 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4037 12378, 12394, 12397
4038
4039 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4040
4041 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4042
4043 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4044 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4046 \f
4047 Version 2.12
4048
4049 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4050
4051 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4052 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4053 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4054 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4055 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4056 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4057 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4058 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4059
4060 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4061
4062 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4063
4064 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4065
4066 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4067 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4068 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4069
4070 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4071 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4072 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4073 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4074 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4075
4076 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4077 \f
4078 Version 2.11
4079
4080 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4081
4082 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4083 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4084 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4085 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4086 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4087 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4088
4089 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4090 mkostemps64
4091 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4092
4093 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4094 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4095
4096 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4097 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4098
4099 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4100
4101 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4102 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4103 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4104 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4105
4106 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4107 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4108
4109 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4110 strstr, strcasestr.
4111 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4112
4113 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4114 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4115
4116 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4117 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4118
4119 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4120 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4121
4122 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4123 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4124 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4125 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4126 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4127 necessity is every process again.
4128 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4129
4130 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4131 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4132
4133 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4134 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4135
4136 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4137 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4139
4140 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4141 \f
4142 Version 2.10
4143
4144 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4145
4146 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4147 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4148 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4149 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4150 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4151
4152 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4154
4155 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4156 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4157
4158 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4159 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4160
4161 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4162 now in POSIX.
4163
4164 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4165 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4166
4167 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4169
4170 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4171 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4172
4173 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4174 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4175
4176 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4177 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4179
4180 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4181
4182 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4183 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4184
4185 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4186 and extend existing format specifiers.
4187 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4188
4189 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4191
4192 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4193 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4194 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4195 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4196 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4198 \f
4199 Version 2.9
4200
4201 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4202
4203 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4204 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4205 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4206 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4207 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4208
4209 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4210 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4211
4212 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4213 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4214
4215 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4217
4218 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4219 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4220 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4221
4222 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4223 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4224
4225 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4226
4227 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4228 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4229
4230 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4231 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4232 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4233 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4234
4235 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4236 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4237
4238 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4239 Sinhala)
4240 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4241
4242 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4243 \f
4244 Version 2.8
4245
4246 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4247
4248 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4249 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4250 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4251 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4252 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4253 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4254 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4255
4256 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4257
4258 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4259
4260 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4261 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4262
4263 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4264
4265 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4266 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4267
4268 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4269 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4270
4271 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4272 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4273 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4274
4275 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4276 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4277
4278 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4279 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4280
4281 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4282 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4283
4284 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4285 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4286 \f
4287 Version 2.7
4288
4289 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4290
4291 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4292 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4293 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4294 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4295 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4296
4297 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4298 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4299
4300 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4301
4302 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4303 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4304 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4305
4306 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4307 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4308
4309 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4310 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4311
4312 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4313
4314 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4315 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4316
4317 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4318 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4319
4320 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4321 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4322
4323 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4324
4325 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4327
4328 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4329 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4330 yo_NG.
4331
4332 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4333 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4334 \f
4335 Version 2.6
4336
4337 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4338
4339 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4340 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4341 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4342 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4343 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4344 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4345 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4346 4702, 4858
4347
4348 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4349
4350 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4351
4352 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4353 \f
4354 Version 2.5
4355
4356 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4357
4358 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4359 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4360 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4361 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4362 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4363 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4364 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4365 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4366 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4367
4368 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4369 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4370 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4371
4372 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4374
4375 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4376
4377 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4378
4379 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4380 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4381 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4382 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4384
4385 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4386 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4387 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4389
4390 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4391 Ulrich Drepper.
4392
4393 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4394
4395 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4396 Ulrich Drepper.
4397
4398 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4399
4400 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4401 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4402 \f
4403 Version 2.4
4404
4405 * More overflow detection functions.
4406
4407 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4408 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4409
4410 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4411 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4412 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4413 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4414 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4415 by Masahide Washizawa.
4416
4417 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4418 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4419
4420 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4421 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4422 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4423 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4424
4425 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4426 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4427
4428 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4429
4430 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4431 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4432 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4433
4434 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4435 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4436
4437 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4438 for compatibility with some other systems.
4439
4440 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4441 \f
4442 Version 2.3.6
4443
4444 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4445
4446 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4447 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4448 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4449 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4450 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4451 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4452
4453 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4454
4455 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4456
4457 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
4458 \f
4459 Version 2.3.5
4460
4461 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4462
4463 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4464 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4465 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4466 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4467
4468 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4469 \f
4470 Version 2.3.4
4471
4472 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4474
4475 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4476 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4477 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4478
4479 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4480 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4481
4482 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
4483 efficiently.
4484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4485
4486 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4487 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4488 handling data.
4489
4490 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4491 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
4492 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4493
4494 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
4495 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4496
4497 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4498 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4499 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4500 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4501
4502 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4503 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4504 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
4505 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4506
4507 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4508 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4509 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4510 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4511 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
4512 \f
4513 Version 2.3.3
4514
4515 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4516 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4517
4518 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4519 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
4520
4521 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
4522 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4523
4524 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4526
4527 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4528 by Roland McGrath.
4529
4530 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
4531 and Ulrich Drepper.
4532
4533 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4534 RFC 3484.
4535 \f
4536 Version 2.3.2
4537
4538 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4539 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4540 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4541 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4542 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4543 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4544 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4545 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4546 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4547
4548 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4549 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4550 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4551
4552 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
4553
4554 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4555 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
4556
4557 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4558 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4559
4560 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
4561
4562 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4563 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
4564
4565 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4566 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4567 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4568 of weak definition in ld.so.
4569
4570 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4571 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4572
4573 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4574 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
4575 \f
4576 Version 2.3
4577
4578 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4579 charsets.
4580
4581 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4582 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
4583
4584 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
4585 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
4586
4587 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4588 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
4589
4590 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
4591 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4592 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4593
4594 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4595 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
4596
4597 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
4598 implementation of regex.
4599
4600 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4601 Unicode 3.2.
4602
4603 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4604 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
4605
4606 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4607 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4608 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
4609
4610 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
4611 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
4612
4613 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4614 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4615 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
4616
4617 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4618 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4619
4620 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4621 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4622 and Ulrich Drepper.
4623
4624 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
4625 \f
4626 Version 2.2.6
4627
4628 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4629 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4630
4631 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4632 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
4633 \f
4634 Version 2.2.5
4635
4636 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4637 128-bit long double format.
4638
4639 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4640 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
4641
4642 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
4643
4644 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4645
4646 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4647 as well.
4648
4649 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4650 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
4651
4652 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
4653 \f
4654 Version 2.2.4
4655
4656 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
4657 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
4658
4659 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4660 support Unicode 3.1.
4661
4662 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4663 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
4664
4665 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
4666
4667 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
4668 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4669 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4670
4671 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4672 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4673
4674 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4675 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
4676
4677 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
4678 \f
4679 Version 2.2.3
4680
4681 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
4682 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4683 in float, double, and long double format.
4684
4685 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
4686 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4687 128-bit long double format.
4688
4689 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4690 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4691 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4692 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4693
4694 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4695 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4696 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4697
4698 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4699 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
4700
4701 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4702 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
4703
4704 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4705 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4706 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
4707
4708 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4709 family of functions for Linux/S390.
4710
4711 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4712 of functions for Linux/x86.
4713
4714 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
4715 \f
4716 Version 2.2.2
4717
4718 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
4719 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4720 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4721 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4722 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4723 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4724 other headers.
4725
4726 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4727 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4728
4729 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4730 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4731 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4732 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4733
4734 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4735 locales. While
4736
4737 locale -a
4738
4739 only lists the names of the supported locales
4740
4741 locale -a --verbose
4742
4743 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4744 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4745 \f
4746 Version 2.2.1
4747
4748 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4749 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4750 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4751 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4752 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4753
4754 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4755
4756 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4757
4758 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
4759
4760 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4761 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4762 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
4763
4764 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4765 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4766
4767 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4768 changed from the default "C" locale.
4769
4770 * The usual bug fixes.
4771 \f
4772 Version 2.2
4773
4774 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4775 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4776 is in progress.
4777
4778 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4779
4780 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
4781
4782 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4783 obviously requires a database library being available.
4784
4785 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4786
4787 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
4788
4789 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4790 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4791
4792 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4793
4794 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4795 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4796 and Mark Kettenis.
4797
4798 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4799 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4800 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
4801
4802 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
4803 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4804
4805 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4806 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4807 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4808
4809 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4810 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4811 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4813
4814 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4815 structures for the wide character tables.
4816
4817 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4818
4819 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
4820
4821 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4822
4823 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4824 and Yutaka Niibe.
4825
4826 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4827
4828 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4829
4830 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4831
4832 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4833
4834 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4835
4836 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4837 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4838 implemented for Linux.
4839
4840 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4841 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4842 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4843 versions.
4844
4845 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4846 Masahide Washizawa.
4847
4848 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
4849 \f
4850 Version 2.1.3
4851
4852 * bug fixes
4853
4854 \f
4855 Version 2.1.2
4856
4857 * bug fixes
4858
4859 \f
4860 Version 2.1.1
4861
4862 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4863
4864 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4865
4866 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
4867
4868 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4869
4870 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
4871
4872 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
4873
4874 * Update timezone data files.
4875
4876 * lots of charmaps corrections
4877
4878 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
4879
4880 \f
4881 Version 2.1
4882
4883 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4884 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4885 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4886 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4887 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4888 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4889
4890 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
4891 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4892
4893 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
4894 symbol level.
4895
4896 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4897 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
4898
4899 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
4900
4901 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
4902 numbers.
4903
4904 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
4905
4906 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4907 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
4908
4909 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4910 library.
4911
4912 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
4913 functions from ISO C 9X.
4914
4915 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4916 real valued functions.
4917
4918 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
4919
4920 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4921
4922 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
4923
4924 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
4925
4926 * Optimized string functions have been added.
4927
4928 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
4929
4930 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4931
4932 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4933 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4934
4935 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4936 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4937
4938 user system wall
4939
4940 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
4941
4942 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
4943
4944 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
4945
4946 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4947
4948 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4949
4950 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
4951
4952 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4953 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
4954 horribly slow.
4955
4956 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4957 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
4958
4959 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
4960
4961 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
4962
4963 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4964 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4965
4966 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
4967
4968 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4969 Bambrough.
4970
4971 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4972 latest draft standards.
4973
4974 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4975
4976 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4977 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4978 addseverity NEW: Unix98
4979 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
4980 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4981 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4982 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4983 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4984 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4985 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4986 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4987 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4988 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4989 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
4990 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4991 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4992 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
4993 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4994 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4995 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4996 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4997 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4998 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4999 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5000 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5001 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5002 capget NEW: kernel
5003 capset NEW: kernel
5004 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5005 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5006 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5007 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5008 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5009 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5010 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5011 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5012 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5013 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5014 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5015 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5016 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5017 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5018 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5019 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5020 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5021 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5022 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5023 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5024 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5025 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5026 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5027 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5028 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5029 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5030 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5031 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5032 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5033 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5034 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5035 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5036 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5037 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5038 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5039 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5040 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5041 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5042 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5043 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5044 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5045 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5046 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5047 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5048 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5049 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5050 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5051 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5052 creat64 NEW: LFS
5053 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5054 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5055 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5056 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5057 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5058 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5059 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5060 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5061 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5062 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5063 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5064 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5065 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5066 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5067 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5068 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5069 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5070 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5071 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5072 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5073 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5074 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5075 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5076 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5077 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5078 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5079 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5080 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5081 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5082 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5083 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5084 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5085 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5086 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5087 feof_locked REMOVED
5088 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5089 ferror_locked REMOVED
5090 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5091 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5092 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5093 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5094 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5095 fflush_locked REMOVED
5096 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5097 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5098 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5099 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5100 fileno_locked REMOVED
5101 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5102 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5103 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5104 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5105 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5106 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5107 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5108 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5109 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
5110 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
5111 fopen64 NEW: LFS
5112 fputc_locked REMOVED
5113 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5114 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5115 freopen64 NEW: LFS
5116 fseeko NEW: Unix98
5117 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5118 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5119 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5120 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5121 ftello NEW: Unix98
5122 ftello64 NEW: LFS
5123 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5124 ftw64 NEW: LFS
5125 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5126 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5127 gamma_r REMOVED
5128 gammaf_r REMOVED
5129 gammal_r REMOVED
5130 getchar_locked REMOVED
5131 getdate NEW: Unix98
5132 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5133 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5134 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5135 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5136 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5137 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5138 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5139 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5140 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5141 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5142 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5143 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5144 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5145 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5146 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5147 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5148 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5149 iconv NEW: iconv
5150 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5151 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5152 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5153 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5154 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5155 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5156 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5157 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5158 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5159 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5160 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5161 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5162 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5163 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5164 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5165 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5166 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5167 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5168 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5169 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5170 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5171 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5172 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5173 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5174 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5175 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5176 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5177 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5178 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5179 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5180 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5181 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5182 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5183 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5184 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5185 lseek64 NEW: LFS
5186 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5187 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5188 mmap64 NEW: LFS
5189 moncontrol REMOVED
5190 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5191 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5192 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5193 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5194 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5195 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5196 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5197 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5198 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5199 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5200 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5201 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5202 nftw NEW: Unix98
5203 nftw64 NEW: LFS
5204 open64 NEW: LFS
5205 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5206 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5207 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5208 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5209 pread NEW: Unix98
5210 pread64 NEW: LFS
5211 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5212 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5213 profil_counter REMOVED
5214 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5215 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5216 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5217 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5218 putc_locked REMOVED
5219 putchar_locked REMOVED
5220 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5221 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5222 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5223 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5224 pwrite NEW: Unix98
5225 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5226 readdir64 NEW: LFS
5227 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5228 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5229 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5230 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5231 round NEW: ISO C 9x
5232 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5233 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5234 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5235 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5236 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5237 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5238 scandir64 NEW: LFS
5239 sendfile NEW: kernel
5240 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5241 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5242 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5243 sighold NEW: Unix98
5244 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5245 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5246 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5247 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5248 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5249 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5250 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5251 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5252 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5253 statfs64 NEW: LFS
5254 statvfs NEW: Unix98
5255 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5256 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5257 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5258 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5259 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5260 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5261 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5262 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5263 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5264 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5265 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5266 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5267 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5268 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5269 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5270 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5271 truncate64 NEW: LFS
5272 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5273 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5274 umount2 NEW: kernel
5275 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5276 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5277 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5278 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5279 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5280 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5281 waitid NEW: Unix98
5282 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5283 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5284 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5285 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5286 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5287 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5288 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5289 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5290 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5291 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5292 write_profiling REMOVED
5293 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5294 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5295 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5296 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5297 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5298 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5299 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5300 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5301 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5302 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5303 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5304 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5305 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5306 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5307 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5308 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5309 \f
5310 Version 2.0.6
5311
5312 * more bug fixes
5313
5314 \f
5315 Version 2.0.5
5316
5317 * more bug fixes
5318
5319 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5320
5321 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5322
5323 * rewrite of cbrt function
5324
5325 * update of timezone data
5326 \f
5327 Version 2.0.4
5328
5329 * more bug fixes
5330 \f
5331 Version 2.0.3
5332
5333 * more bug fixes
5334 \f
5335 Version 2.0.2
5336
5337 * more bug fixes
5338
5339 * add atoll function
5340
5341 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5342
5343 * fix math functions
5344 \f
5345 Version 2.0.1
5346
5347 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5348
5349 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5350
5351 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5352 the ELF dynamic loader.
5353
5354 * support for parallel builds is improved
5355 \f
5356 Version 2.0
5357
5358 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5359 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5360 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5361
5362 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5363 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5364 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5365 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5366 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5367 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5368 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5369 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5370 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5371 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5372 files in the ELF format.
5373
5374 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5375 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5376
5377 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5378 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5379 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5380 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5381 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5382 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5383 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5384 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5385 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5386 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5387 about dynamically linked binaries.
5388
5389 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5390 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5391 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5392 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5393 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5394
5395 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5396 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5397 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5398 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5399 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5400
5401 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5402
5403 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5404 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5405 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5406 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5407 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5408 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5409 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5410 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5411 NSS services available.
5412
5413 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5414 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5415 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5416
5417 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5418 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5419 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5420
5421 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5422 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5423 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5424 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5425
5426 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5427 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5428 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5429
5430 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5431 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5432 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5433
5434 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5435 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5436
5437 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5438 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5439 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5440 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5441
5442 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5443 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5444 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5445
5446 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5447 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5448 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5449 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5450 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5451 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
5452 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
5453 the header file <printf.h> for details.
5454
5455 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5456 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5457 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5458 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5459 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5460 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5461 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
5462
5463 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5464 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5465 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5466 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5467 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5468 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5469
5470 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5471 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5472
5473 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5474 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5475 NSS scheme used in glibc.
5476
5477 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5478
5479 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5480 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5481 their use is discouraged.
5482
5483 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5484 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
5485
5486 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5487 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
5488
5489 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5490 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5491
5492 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5493 see <dirent.h>.
5494
5495 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5496 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
5497 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5498 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5499 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
5500
5501 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5502 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5503 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5504 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
5505
5506 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5507 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5508
5509 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5510 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5511 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5512 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5513 number generator.
5514
5515 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5516 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5517
5518 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5519 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5520
5521 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
5522 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
5523 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5524 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
5525
5526 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5527
5528 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5529 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5530 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5531
5532 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5533 for arithmetic and string handling.
5534
5535 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
5536 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5537 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5538 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5539
5540 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5541 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5542 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5543 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5544 programs already written to use it.)
5545
5546 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5547 constants.
5548
5549 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5550 with 4.4 BSD.
5551
5552 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5553 a given effective group ID.
5554
5555 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5556 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5557 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5558 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5559
5560 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
5561 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
5562 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5563 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5564 doing the same thing.
5565
5566 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5567 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5568
5569 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
5570 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
5571
5572 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5573
5574 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5575 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5576 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
5577 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
5578 `-ldb' to get these functions.
5579
5580 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5581 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
5582
5583 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
5584 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5585 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5586 function.
5587
5588 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5589
5590 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5591 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5592 strings.
5593
5594 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5595 and writing the utmp file.
5596
5597 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5598 Thorsten Kukuk.
5599
5600 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5601 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5602 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5603
5604 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5605 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5606
5607 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5608 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5609 specification.
5610
5611 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5612 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5613 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5614 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5615
5616 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5617 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5618 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5619
5620 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5621 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5622 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5623 expression matcher.
5624
5625 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5626 functionality.
5627
5628 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5629 by Ulrich Drepper.
5630
5631 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5632
5633 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5634 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5635 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
5636 \f
5637 Version 1.09
5638
5639 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5640
5641 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5642 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5643
5644 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5645 want to put themselves in the background.
5646
5647 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5648 run without an operating system.
5649
5650 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5651 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5652
5653 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5654 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5655
5656 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5657
5658 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5659 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5660 have YP (aka NIS).
5661
5662 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5663 conventions.
5664
5665 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5666 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5667 \f
5668 Version 1.08
5669
5670 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5671 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5672 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5673
5674 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5675 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5676
5677 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5678 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5679
5680 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5681
5682 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5683
5684 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5685 compatibility.
5686
5687 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5688 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5689 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5690
5691 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5692
5693 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5694 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5695 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5696
5697 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5698 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5699 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5700 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5701 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5702 on a block).
5703
5704 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5705 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5706 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5707 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5708 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5709 cross-compiler.
5710
5711 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5712 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5713 \f
5714 Version 1.07
5715
5716 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5717 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5718
5719 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5720 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5721 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5722
5723 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5724 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5725 address of the last character written.
5726
5727 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5728 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5729
5730 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5731 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5732
5733 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5734 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5735 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5736 you dereference this pointer.
5737
5738 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5739 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5740
5741 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5742 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5743 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5744 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5745
5746 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5747 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5748 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5749 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5750 \f
5751 Version 1.06
5752
5753 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5754 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5755 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5756 in Emacs or the `info' program.
5757 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
5758
5759 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5760
5761 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5762
5763 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5764 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5765
5766 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5767 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5768
5769 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5770 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5771
5772 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5773 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5774 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5775 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5776 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5777
5778 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5779 to the error code in `errno'.
5780
5781 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5782 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5783 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5784 malloc'd string.
5785
5786 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5787 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5788 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5789
5790 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5791 uniquely-named temporary file.
5792 \f
5793 Version 1.05
5794
5795 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5796 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5797 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5798
5799 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5800 characters.
5801
5802 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5803 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5804
5805 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5806 \f
5807 Version 1.04
5808
5809 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5810 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5811 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5812 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5813
5814 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5815 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5816 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5817
5818 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5819 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5820
5821 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5822 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5823 made itself into a shared library.
5824
5825 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5826 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5827
5828 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5829 with limited length.
5830
5831 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5832
5833 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5834
5835 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5836
5837 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5838 function for traversing a directory tree.
5839
5840 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5841 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5842 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5843 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5844
5845 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5846 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5847
5848 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5849
5850 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5851 things to your strings.
5852
5853 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5854
5855 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5856 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5857 supporting those systems.
5858
5859 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5860 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5861 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5862 configuration files.
5863
5864 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5865 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5866
5867 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
5868 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5869 in <strings.h>.)
5870
5871 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5872 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5873 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5874 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5875 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5876 required storage is not available.
5877
5878 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5879 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
5880
5881 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5882 latest files released from Berkeley.
5883 \f
5884 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
5885 Copyright information:
5886
5887 Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5888
5889 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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