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