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