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