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8 Version 2.37
9
10 Major new features:
11
12 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
13 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
14 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
15 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
16
17 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
18
19 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
20 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
21 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
22 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
23
24 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
25
26 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
27
28 Security related changes:
29
30 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
31 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
32 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
33 portion of the contents of the heap.
34
35 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
36
37 [The release manager will add the list generated by
38 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
39 \f
40 Version 2.36
41
42 Major new features:
43
44 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
45 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
46 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
47 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
48 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
49 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
50
51 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
52 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
53 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
54
55 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
56 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
57 by the pidfd.
58
59 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
60 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
61 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
62 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
63
64 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
65 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
66 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
67 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
68 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
69 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
70 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
71 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
72 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
73 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
74 validation by applications.
75
76 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
77 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
78 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
79 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
80 with namespaces.
81
82 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
83 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
84 unpredictable output.
85
86 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
87 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
88 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
89 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
90 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
91 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
92 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
93 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
94
95 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
96 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
97 quality randomness from the kernel.
98
99 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
100 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
101 ABI is supported:
102
103 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
104
105 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
106
107 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
108
109 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
110 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
111 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
112
113 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
114 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
115 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
116 when libc.so is issued directly.
117
118 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
119
120 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
121
122 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
123 return different result with versioned "foo"
124 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
125 mess
126 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
127 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
128 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
129 calls dlclose
130 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
131 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
132 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
133 enforced
134 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
135 deadlock
136 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
137 format
138 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
139 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
140 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
141 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
142 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
143 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
144 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
145 other standards.
146 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
147 from the stack
148 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
149 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
150 (breaks test isolation)
151 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
152 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
153 __convert_scm_timestamps
154 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
155 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
156 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
157 missing libraries
158 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
159 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
160 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
161 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
162 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
163 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
164 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
165 SUCCESS=MERGE
166 [28936] build: nm: No such file
167 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
168 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
169 clobbers errno
170 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
171 bench.
172 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
173 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
174 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
175 /proc/self/fd/
176 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
177 on ENOENT and EACCES
178 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
179 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
180 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
181 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
182 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
183 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
184 is promoted to global scope
185 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
186 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
187 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
188 broke ld.so
189 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
190 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
191 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
192 failure
193 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
194 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
195 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
196 before '__fortified_attr_access'
197 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
198 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
199 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
200 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
201 value for filling after \0
202 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
203 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
204 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
205 aware
206 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
207 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
208 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
209 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
210 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
211 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
212 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
213 line 184
214 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
215 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
216 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
217 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
218 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
219 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
220 missing on microblaze with largefile
221 \f
222 Version 2.35
223
224 Major new features:
225
226 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
227 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
228 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
229
230 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
231 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
232
233 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
234 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
235 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
236 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
237 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
238 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
239 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
240 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
241 glibc, and must be installed.
242
243 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
244 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
245 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
246
247 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
248 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
249
250 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
251 fMxfmafNx functions.
252
253 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
254 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
255 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
256 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
257 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
258 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
259
260 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
261 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
262 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
263 M_SQRT1_2f.
264
265 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
266 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
267
268 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
269 macro in <tgmath.h>.
270
271 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
272
273 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
274 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
275 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
276
277 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
278 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
279 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
280 object dependency cases.
281
282 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
283 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
284 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
285 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
286
287 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
288 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
289 return value is only used for its boolean status.
290
291 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
292 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
293 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
294 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
295 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
296 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
297 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
298 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
299 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
300 Restartable Sequences.
301
302 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
303 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
304
305 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
306 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
307 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
308 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
309 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
310 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
311 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
312 configuration.
313
314 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
315 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
316 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
317 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
318 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
319 huge pages.
320
321 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
322 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
323
324 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
325 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
326 address.
327
328 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
329 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
330 ABI is supported:
331
332 - or1k-linux-gnu
333
334 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
335 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
336
337 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
338 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
339 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
340 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
341 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
342
343 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
344 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
345
346 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
347 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
348 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
349
350 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
351 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
352 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
353 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
354 bounds).
355
356 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
357 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
358
359 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
360
361 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
362 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
363 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
364
365 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
366 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
367
368 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
369 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
370
371 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
372
373 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
374
375 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
376 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
377 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
378
379 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
380 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
381 catching coredumps and backtraces.
382
383 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
384 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
385 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
386
387 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
388 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
389 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
390
391 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
392 support prelink PIE binaries.
393
394 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
395
396 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
397 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
398 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
399 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
400 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
401
402 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
403 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
404 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
405 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
406
407 Security related changes:
408
409 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
410 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
411 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
412
413 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
414 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
415
416 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
417 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
418 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
419
420 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
421 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
422 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
423 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
424 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
425
426 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
427
428 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
429 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
430 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
431 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
432 many dsos
433 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
434 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
435 degradation
436 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
437 loaded with dlmopen
438 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
439 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
440 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
441 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
442 ID whose lifetime has not ended
443 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
444 (CVE-2022-23219)
445 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
446 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
447 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
448 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
449 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
450 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
451 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
452 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
453 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
454 --enable-initfini-array
455 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
456 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
457 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
458 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
459 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
460 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
461 empty
462 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
463 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
464 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
465 built with ld.lld
466 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
467 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
468 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
469 2.34
470 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
471 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
472 robustness
473 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
474 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
475 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
476 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
477 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
478 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
479 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
480 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
481 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
482 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
483 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
484 file
485 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
486 only dynamic section
487 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
488 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
489 recvmsg()
490 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
491 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
492 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
493 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
494 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
495 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
496 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
497 C2X
498 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
499 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
500 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
501 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
502 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
503 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
504 globalmod1.so
505 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
506 systems with TIMESIZE=64
507 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
508 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
509 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
510 spurious NUL character on state reset
511 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
512 incorrect
513 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
514 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
515 execution test
516 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
517 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
518 hppa
519 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
520 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
521 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
522 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
523 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
524 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
525 crashes
526 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
527 binutils changes
528 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
529 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
530 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
531 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
532 is not useful
533 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
534 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
535 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
536 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
537 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
538 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
539 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
540 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
541 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
542 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
543 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
544 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
545 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
546 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
547 (CVE-2022-23218)
548 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
549 (CVE-2021-3999)
550 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
551 results (CVE-2021-3998)
552 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
553 in Systemtap probes
554 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
555 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
556 x86-64-baseline
557 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
558 with no closing ]
559 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
560 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
561 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
562
563 \f
564 Version 2.34
565
566 Major new features:
567
568 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
569 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
570 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
571 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
572 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
573 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
574 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
575 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
576 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
577 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
578 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
579 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
580 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
581 potentially exposing application bugs.
582
583 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
584 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
585 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
586 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
587
588 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
589 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
590 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
591 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
592 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
593 Arm SVE.
594
595 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
596 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
597 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
598
599 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
600 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
601 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
602 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
603
604 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
605
606 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
607 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
608 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
609 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
610 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
611
612 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
613 --disable-scv configure option.
614
615 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
616 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
617 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
618 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
619 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
620 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
621 version of 5.1.
622
623 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
624 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
625 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
626 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
627 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
628 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
629 that directory.
630
631 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
632 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
633
634 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
635 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
636 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
637 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
638 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
639 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
640 is currently a GNU extension.
641
642 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
643 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
644
645 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
646 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
647 although it is also present in other systems.
648
649 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
650 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
651 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
652 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
653
654 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
655 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
656 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
657
658 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
659
660 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
661 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
662 instead.
663
664 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
665 programs should use the equivalent standard function
666 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
667
668 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
669 programs should use the equivalent standard function
670 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
671
672 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
673 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
674
675 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
676
677 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
678 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
679 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
680 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
681 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
682 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
683 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
684 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
685 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
686 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
687 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
688
689 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
690 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
691 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
692 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
693 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
694 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
695 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
696 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
697
698 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
699 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
700 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
701 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
702 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
703 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
704 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
705
706 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
707 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
708 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
709 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
710 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
711 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
712 upgrade or downgrade process.
713
714 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
715 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
716 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
717
718 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
719 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
720 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
721 no longer have any effect on malloc.
722
723 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
724 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
725 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
726 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
727 this functionality back.
728
729 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
730 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
731 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
732 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
733
734 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
735 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
736 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
737 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
738 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
739 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
740 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
741 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
742 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
743
744 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
745
746 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
747 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
748 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
749 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
750
751 Security related changes:
752
753 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
754 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
755 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
756 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
757
758 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
759 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
760 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
761
762 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
763 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
764 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
765
766 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
767
768 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
769 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
770 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
771 given integer (closefrom)
772 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
773 name containing multi-byte character(s)
774 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
775 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
776 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
777 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
778 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
779 random thread
780 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
781 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
782 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
783 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
784 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
785 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
786 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
787 manual is incorrect
788 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
789 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
790 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
791 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
792 pthread_create and dlopen
793 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
794 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
795 when non-root user changes priority
796 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
797 dlopen
798 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
799 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
800 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
801 ordered correctly
802 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
803 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
804 data.
805 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
806 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
807 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
808 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
809 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
810 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
811 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
812 the right free implementation
813 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
814 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
815 shm_open to pick wrong directory
816 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
817 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
818 protector=all)
819 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
820 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
821 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
822 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
823 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
824 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
825 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
826 uninitialized
827 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
828 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
829 system calls
830 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
831 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
832 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
833 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
834 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
835 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
836 deployments
837 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
838 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
839 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
840 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
841 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
842 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
843 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
844 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
845 is present
846 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
847 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
848 protector=all
849 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
850 information for the current directory
851 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
852 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
853 dl_runtime_resolve_*
854 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
855 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
856 containers
857 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
858 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
859 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
860 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
861 INT_MAX
862 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
863 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
864 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
865 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
866 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
867 tries resolving them lazily
868 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
869 libthread_db
870 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
871 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
872 argument
873 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
874 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
875 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
876 not set ENOMEM
877 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
878 randomization
879 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
880 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
881 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
882 IS_ERR_VALUE
883 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
884 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
885 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
886 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
887 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
888 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
889 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
890 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
891 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
892 with n >= 0x80000000
893 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
894 thread never allocated anything
895 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
896 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
897 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
898 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
899 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
900 on older kernels
901 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
902 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
903 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
904 AMD64 cpus
905 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
906 terminator
907
908 \f
909 Version 2.33
910
911 Major new features:
912
913 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
914 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
915 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
916
917 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
918 to change argv[0] string.
919
920 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
921 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
922 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
923 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
924 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
925 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
926 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
927 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
928 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
929
930 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
931 information and library search path diagnostics.
932
933 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
934 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
935 larger than fit in an integer.
936
937 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
938
939 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
940 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
941
942 - rv32imac ilp32
943 - rv32imafdc ilp32
944 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
945
946 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
947 2.28.
948
949 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
950 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
951 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
952 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
953 fortification.
954
955 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
956
957 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
958 mallinfo2 instead.
959
960 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
961 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
962 Instead, the default implementation is used.
963
964 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
965 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
966 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
967 prlimit.
968
969 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
970 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
971 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
972
973 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
974 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
975 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
976 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
977 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
978 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
979
980 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
981 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
982 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
983 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
984 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
985 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
986 loaded.
987
988 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
989
990 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
991 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
992 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
993 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
994 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
995 perform any adjustments.
996
997 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
998 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
999 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1000 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1001
1002 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1003
1004 Security related changes:
1005
1006 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1007 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1008 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1009 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1010 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1011
1012 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1013 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1014 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1015
1016 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1017 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1018
1019 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1020 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1021
1022 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1023
1024 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1025 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1026 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1027 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1028 AT_EACCESS
1029 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1030 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1031 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1032 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1033 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1034 with GCC
1035 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1036 stack-protector=all
1037 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1038 cases
1039 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1040 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1041 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1042 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1043 changing gnuc version
1044 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1045 incorrect
1046 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1047 bits
1048 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1049 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1050 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1051 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1052 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1053 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1054 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1055 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1056 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1057 too much stack space
1058 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1059 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1060 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1061 with optimization.
1062 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1063 anymore
1064 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1065 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1066 non-FMA4 system
1067 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1068 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1069 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1070 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1071 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1072 getaddrinfo
1073 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1074 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1075 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1076 fault
1077 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1078 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1079 at the end of a memory mapping
1080 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1081 by the caller to the kernel
1082 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1083 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1084 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1085 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1086 monotonic clocks
1087 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1088 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1089 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1090 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1091 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1092 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1093 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1094 one element
1095 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1096 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1097 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1098 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1099 lazy bound
1100 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1101 PI mutexes
1102 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1103 not safe
1104 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1105 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1106 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1107 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1108 platform
1109 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1110 startup code
1111 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1112 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1113 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1114 protected
1115 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1116 only since 2.31
1117 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1118 locked
1119 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1120 aligned
1121 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1122 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1123 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1124 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1125 detection logic
1126 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1127 pclose(3))
1128 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1129 setup
1130 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1131 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1132 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1133 work
1134 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1135 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1136 [27177] dynamic-link:
1137 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1138 work
1139 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1140 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1141 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1142 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1143
1144 \f
1145 Version 2.32
1146
1147 Major new features:
1148
1149 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1150 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1151 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1152
1153 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1154
1155 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1156 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1157 Three ABIs are supported:
1158
1159 - arc-linux-gnu
1160 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1161 - arceb-linux-gnu
1162
1163 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1164 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1165
1166 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1167 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1168
1169 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1170 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1171 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1172 this option.
1173
1174 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1175 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1176 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1177
1178 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1179 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1180 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1181
1182 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1183 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1184 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1185 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1186 libpthread.
1187
1188 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1189 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1190 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1191 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1192 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1193 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1194
1195 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1196 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1197
1198 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1199 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1200 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1201 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1202 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1203 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1204
1205 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1206 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1207
1208 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1209 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1210 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1211 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1212 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1213 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1214 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1215 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1216 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1217 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1218 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1219 BTI compatible.
1220
1221 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1222
1223 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1224 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1225 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1226 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1227 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1228 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1229 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1230
1231 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1232 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1233 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1234 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1235 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1236 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1237 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1238 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1239 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1240
1241 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1242 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1243 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1244 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1245 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1246
1247 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1248 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1249 was not declared in any header file.
1250
1251 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1252 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1253 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1254 sigaction functions instead.
1255
1256 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1257 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1258
1259 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1260 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1261 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1262 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1263 strsignal instead.
1264
1265 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1266 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1267 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1268 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1269 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1270
1271 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1272 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1273 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1274 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1275
1276 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1277 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1278 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1279 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1280 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1281 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1282 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1283
1284 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1285 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1286 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1287 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1288 flavor of secure RPC.)
1289
1290 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1291 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1292 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1293 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1294 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1295 object, to enable the hooks.
1296
1297 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1298 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1299 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1300 LDAP.
1301
1302 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1303
1304 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1305 long double redirects.
1306
1307 Security related changes:
1308
1309 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1310 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1311 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1312
1313 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1314 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1315 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1316
1317 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1318 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1319
1320 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1321 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1322 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1323 TALOS-2020-1019).
1324
1325 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1326
1327 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1328 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1329 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1330 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1331 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1332 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1333 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1334 filtee has constructor
1335 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1336 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1337 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1338 character entities for infinity & pi
1339 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1340 segfaults in applications
1341 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1342 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1343 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1344 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1345 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1346 function with -mlong-double-64
1347 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1348 binding
1349 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1350 ld.so.cache
1351 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1352 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1353 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1354 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1355 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1356 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1357 linker
1358 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1359 dynamically loaded dsos
1360 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1361 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1362 access
1363 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1364 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1365 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1366 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1367 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1368 stale configuration forever
1369 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1370 (CVE-2020-10029)
1371 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1372 defaults to PIE
1373 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1374 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1375 (CVE-2020-6096)
1376 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1377 on 32 bit and old kernel
1378 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1379 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1380 Occitan
1381 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1382 amount of sigset_t bytes
1383 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1384 strings
1385 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1386 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1387 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1388 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1389 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1390 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1391 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1392 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1393 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1394 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1395 size_t
1396 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1397 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1398 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1399 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1400 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1401 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1402 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1403 cpu=power9
1404 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1405 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1406 segfault
1407 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1408 exiting detached thread
1409 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1410 for x32
1411 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1412 ERANGE
1413 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1414 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1415 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1416 dependencies in audit mode
1417 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1418 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1419 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1420 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1421 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1422 input
1423 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1424 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1425 preserve r2
1426 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1427 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1428 variables
1429 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1430 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1431 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1432 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1433 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1434 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1435 corruption in memset
1436
1437 \f
1438 Version 2.31
1439
1440 Major new features:
1441
1442 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1443 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1444 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1445 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1446 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1447 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1448
1449 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1450 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1451 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1452 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1453
1454 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1455 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1456 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1457
1458 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1459
1460 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1461 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1462 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1463 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1464 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1465 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1466 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1467 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1468
1469 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1470
1471 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1472 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1473 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1474 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1475 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1476 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1477
1478 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1479 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1480 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1481
1482 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1483 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1484 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1485 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1486
1487 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1488 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1489 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1490 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1491 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1492 made this no longer practical.
1493
1494 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1495 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1496 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1497 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1498 release.)
1499
1500 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1501 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1502 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1503
1504 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1505 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1506 using clock_gettime instead.
1507
1508 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1509 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1510 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1511 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1512 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1513
1514 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1515 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1516 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1517 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1518
1519 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1520 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1521 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1522 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1523 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1524 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1525
1526 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1527 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1528 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1529 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1530 offset API.
1531
1532 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1533 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1534 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1535
1536 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1537 configurations.
1538
1539 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1540 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1541 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1542 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1543 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1544
1545 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1546 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1547 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1548 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1549 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1550 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1551 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1552 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1553
1554 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1555 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1556
1557 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1558 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1559 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1560 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1561 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1562 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1563
1564 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1565
1566 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1567 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1568 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1569
1570 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1571 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1572 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1573
1574 Security related changes:
1575
1576 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1577 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1578
1579 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1580 environment variable during program execution after a security
1581 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1582 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1583 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1584
1585 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1586
1587 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1588 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1589 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1590 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1591 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1592 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1593 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1594 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1595 linking failure
1596 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1597 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1598 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1599 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1600 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1601 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1602 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1603 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1604 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1605 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1606 7408-2005
1607 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1608 with localedef
1609 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1610 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1611 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1612 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1613 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1614 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1615 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1616 utmp entries
1617 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1618 ABSOLUTE ABI
1619 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1620 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1621 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1622 (stringop-overflow error)
1623 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1624 functions other can lead to crashes
1625 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1626 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1627 unconditionally
1628 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1629 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1630 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1631 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1632 still can fail with an error
1633 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1634 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1635 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1636 initialized correctly
1637 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1638 -frewrite-includes
1639 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1640 value to an unsigned
1641 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1642 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1643 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1644 protection
1645 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1646 ifunc variant.
1647 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1648 al. for Clang++
1649 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1650 (Slovenian)
1651 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1652 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1653 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1654 with -std=c11
1655 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1656 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1657 part
1658 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1659 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1660 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1661 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1662 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1663 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1664
1665 \f
1666 Version 2.30
1667
1668 Major new features:
1669
1670 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1671 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1672 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1673
1674 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1675 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1676
1677 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1678 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1679 to the callback function.
1680
1681 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1682
1683 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1684 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1685 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1686
1687 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1688
1689 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1690 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1691 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1692 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1693 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1694
1695 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1696 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1697 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1698 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1699 link time reference, is gone.
1700
1701 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1702 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1703 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1704 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1705 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1706 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1707 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1708 the clock choice at initialization time).
1709
1710 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1711 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1712 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1713
1714 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1715
1716 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1717 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1718 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1719 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1720 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1721 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1722 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1723 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1724 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1725
1726 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1727 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1728 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1729 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1730 since glibc 2.17.
1731
1732 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1733 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1734
1735 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1736 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1737
1738 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1739 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1740
1741 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1742 BIND_NOW flag.
1743
1744 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1745 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1746 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1747
1748 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1749 header have been removed.
1750
1751 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1752 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1753 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1754 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1755
1756 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1757
1758 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1759
1760 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1761 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1762
1763 Security related changes:
1764
1765 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1766 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1767 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1768 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1769 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1770 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1771 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1772
1773 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1774 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1775 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1776
1777 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1778
1779 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1780 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1781 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1782 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1783 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1784 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1785 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1786 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1787 invalid input drops valid char
1788 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1789 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1790 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1791 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1792 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1793 malloc.h.
1794 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1795 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1796 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1797 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1798 functions
1799 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1800 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1801 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1802 for long double = double
1803 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1804 long double = double
1805 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1806 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1807 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1808 long timeouts
1809 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1810 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1811 checking for NULL.
1812 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1813 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1814 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1815 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1816 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1817 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1818 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1819 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1820 not the default "nor"
1821 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1822 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1823 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1824 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1825 compiler barriers.
1826 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1827 unnecessary librt dependencies
1828 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1829 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1830 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1831 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1832 unsorted chunk
1833 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1834 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1835 to R_SPARC_H44
1836 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1837 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1838 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1839 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1840 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1841 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1842 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1843 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1844 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1845 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1846 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1847 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1848 was not used
1849 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1850 tests
1851 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1852 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1853 time_t changes
1854 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1855 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1856 kernels and break testing
1857 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1858 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1859 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1860 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1861 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1862 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1863 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1864 -O3 -march=skylake
1865 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1866 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1867 crash
1868 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1869 linked glibc
1870 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1871 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1872 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1873 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1874 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1875 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1876 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1877 always implemented in the same library
1878 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1879 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1880 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1881 testroot
1882
1883 \f
1884 Version 2.29
1885
1886 Major new features:
1887
1888 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1889 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1890
1891 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1892 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1893 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1894 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1895 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1896 configured location.
1897
1898 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1899
1900 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1901 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1902
1903 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1904 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1905 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1906 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1907 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1908 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1909 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1910 process actually does not use HTM).
1911
1912 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1913 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1914 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1915 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1916 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1917 of the same name.
1918
1919 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1920 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1921 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1922 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1923 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1924
1925 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1926 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1927 supported:
1928 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1929 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1930
1931 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1932 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1933 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1934 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1935 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1936 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1937 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1938
1939 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1940 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1941 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1942
1943 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1944
1945 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1946 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1947
1948 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1949 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1950 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1951 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1952
1953 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1954 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1955 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1956 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1957 structures.
1958
1959 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1960 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1961 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1962 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1963 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1964 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1965
1966 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1967 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1968 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1969 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1970 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1971
1972 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1973 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1974 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1975
1976 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1977
1978 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1979
1980 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1981 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1982
1983 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1984 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1985
1986 Security related changes:
1987
1988 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1989 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1990 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1991
1992 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1993 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1994 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1995 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1996 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1997
1998 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1999 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2000 or command injection issues in applications.
2001
2002 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2003
2004 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2005 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2006 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2007 thousands
2008 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2009 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2010 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2011 --param options)
2012 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2013 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2014 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2015 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2016 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2017 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2018 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2019 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2020 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2021 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2022 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2023 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2024 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2025 pointer argument is non-NULL
2026 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2027 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2028 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2029 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2030 multithreads call popen
2031 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2032 and pthread_create fails.
2033 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2034 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2035 constructor
2036 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2037 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2038 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2039 source tree
2040 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2041 float
2042 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2043 one error
2044 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2045 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2046 linker
2047 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2048 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2049 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2050 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2051 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2052 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2053 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2054 filesystems
2055 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2056 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2057 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2058 functions
2059 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2060 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2061 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2062 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2063 have wrong type
2064 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2065 wrong type
2066 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2067 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2068 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2069 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2070 threads
2071 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2072 start.S
2073 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2074 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2075 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2076 powerpc64le
2077 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2078 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2079 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2080 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2081 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2082 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2083 strftime
2084 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2085 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2086 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2087 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2088 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2089 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2090 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2091 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2092 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2093 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2094 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2095 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2096 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2097 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2098 tcache size
2099 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2100 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2101 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2102 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2103 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2104 (CVE-2018-19591)
2105 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2106 nearest rounding mode
2107 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2108 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2109 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2110 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2111 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2112 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2113 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2114 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2115 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2116 error
2117 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2118 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2119 using GCC 8
2120 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2121 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2122 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2123 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2124 ppc64le
2125 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2126 expected result
2127 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2128 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2129 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2130 sigaltstack
2131 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2132 answers will be rejected)
2133 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2134
2135 \f
2136 Version 2.28
2137
2138 Major new features:
2139
2140 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2141 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2142 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2143 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2144 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2145 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2146 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2147 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2148 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2149 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2150 archive or binary locales.
2151
2152 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2153 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2154 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2155 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2156 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2157 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2158 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2159 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2160 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2161 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2162 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2163 validated for i686.
2164
2165 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2166 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2167 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2168 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2169 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2170 field) to indicate such support is required.
2171
2172 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2173 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2174 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2175
2176 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2177 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2178
2179 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2180 fMxaddfNx functions.
2181
2182 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2183 fMxsubfNx functions.
2184
2185 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2186 fMxmulfNx functions.
2187
2188 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2189 fMxdivfNx functions.
2190
2191 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2192 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2193 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2194 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2195 and Kashubian.
2196
2197 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2198 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2199
2200 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2201 patches.
2202
2203 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2204 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2205 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2206 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2207 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2208 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2209 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2210 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2211
2212 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2213 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2214 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2215 the fstatat64 function.
2216
2217 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2218 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2219 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2220 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2221 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2222 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2223 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2224 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2225 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2226
2227 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2228 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2229 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2230 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2231 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2232 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2233 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2234 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2235 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2236 results in a load failure now.
2237
2238 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2239 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2240 <threads.h>:
2241
2242 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2243 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2244
2245 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2246 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2247
2248 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2249
2250 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2251 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2252
2253 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2254
2255 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2256
2257 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2258
2259 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2260 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2261 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2262
2263 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2264 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2265 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2266 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2267 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2268 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2269
2270 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2271 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2272 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2273 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2274 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2275 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2276 (Bug #1190.)
2277
2278 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2279 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2280 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2281 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2282 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2283 further explanation.
2284
2285 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2286 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2287 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2288
2289 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2290
2291 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2292 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2293 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2294
2295 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2296 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2297 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2298 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2299
2300 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2301 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2302 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2303 for this function instead.
2304
2305 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2306 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2307 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2308
2309 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2310 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2311 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2312 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2313
2314 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2315 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2316 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2317 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2318 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2319
2320 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2321 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2322 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2323 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2324 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2325 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2326 such as libgcrypt.
2327
2328 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2329 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2330 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2331 enabled.
2332
2333 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2334 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2335 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2336
2337 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2338 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2339 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2340 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2341 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2342 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2343
2344 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2345 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2346 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2347 behavior in a future release.
2348
2349 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2350
2351 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2352
2353 Security related changes:
2354
2355 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2356 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2357 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2358 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2359
2360 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2361 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2362
2363 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2364 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2365 Izbyshev.
2366
2367 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2368 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2369 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2370
2371 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2372
2373 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2374 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2375 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2376 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2377 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2378 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2379 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2380 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2381 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2382 14651
2383 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2384 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2385 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2386 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2387 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2388 conversion is given
2389 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2390 date
2391 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2392 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2393 scope with -O1 and higher
2394 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2395 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2396 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2397 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2398 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2399 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2400 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2401 horrible machine code)
2402 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2403 last constant.
2404 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2405 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2406 symbols
2407 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2408 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2409 defined
2410 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2411 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2412 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2413 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2414 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2415 fpscr.c'
2416 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2417 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2418 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2419 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2420 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2421 the base address
2422 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2423 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2424 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2425 open_verify
2426 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2427 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2428 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2429 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2430 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2431 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2432 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2433 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2434 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2435 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2436 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2437 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2438 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2439 dlopen
2440 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2441 AT_SECURE=1
2442 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2443 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2444 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2445 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2446 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2447 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2448 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2449 for Spanish with CLDR
2450 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2451 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2452 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2453 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2454 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2455 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2456 es_BO
2457 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2458 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2459 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2460 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2461 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2462 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2463 dlopen failures
2464 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2465 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2466 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2467 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2468 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2469 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2470 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2471 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2472 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2473 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2474 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2475 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2476 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2477 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2478 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2479 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2480 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2481 makecontext
2482 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2483 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2484 required
2485 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2486 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2487 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2488 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2489 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2490 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2491 disabled
2492 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2493 failure
2494 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2495 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2496 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2497 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2498 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2499 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2500 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2501 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2502 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2503 and libc build with -Os)
2504 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2505 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2506 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2507 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2508 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2509 that changes /etc/passwd
2510 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2511 (CVE-2018-11237)
2512 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2513 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2514 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2515 posix/regcomp.c
2516 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2517 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2518 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2519 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2520 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2521 AT_SECURE
2522 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2523 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2524 parser.c
2525 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2526 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2527 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2528 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2529 directed rounding
2530 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2531 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2532 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2533 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2534 lookup
2535 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2536 interposition
2537 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2538 DSO boundaries.
2539 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2540 <linux/time.h>
2541 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2542 checking
2543 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2544 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2545 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2546 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2547 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2548 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2549 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2550 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2551 processors
2552 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2553
2554 \f
2555 Version 2.27
2556
2557 Major new features:
2558
2559 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2560 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2561 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2562 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2563 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2564 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2565 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2566 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2567 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2568
2569 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2570 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2571 H.J. Lu from Intel.
2572
2573 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2574
2575 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2576
2577 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2578 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2579 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2580 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2581 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2582 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2583 from a security and performance perspective.
2584
2585 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2586 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2587 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2588 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2589
2590 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2591 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2592 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2593 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2594 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2595
2596 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2597 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2598 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2599 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2600 _Float128.
2601
2602 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2603 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2604 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2605
2606 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2607
2608 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2609 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2610 pkey_get.
2611
2612 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2613
2614 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2615
2616 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2617 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2618 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2619
2620 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2621 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2622 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2623 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2624 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2625 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2626 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2627
2628 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2629 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2630 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2631 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2632 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2633 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2634 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2635
2636 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2637 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2638 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2639 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2640 respectively.
2641
2642 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2643 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2644 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2645 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2646
2647 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2648 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2649 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2650
2651 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2652 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2653 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2654
2655 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2656 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2657 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2658
2659 - rv64imac lp64
2660 - rv64imafdc lp64
2661 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2662
2663 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2664
2665 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2666 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2667 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2668 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2669 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2670 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2671 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2672 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2673 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2674 fix this.
2675
2676 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2677 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2678 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2679
2680 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2681 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2682 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2683 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2684 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2685 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2686 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2687 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2688 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2689 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2690 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2691 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2692 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2693 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2694 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2695 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2696 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2697 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2698 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2699 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2700 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2701 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2702 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2703 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2704 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2705 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2706
2707 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2708 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2709
2710 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2711 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2712 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2713 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2714 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2715 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2716 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2717
2718 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2719 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2720 exp10l for these functions instead.
2721
2722 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2723 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2724 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2725
2726 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2727 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2728 ignored.
2729
2730 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2731 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2732 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2733 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2734
2735 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2736 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2737
2738 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2739 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2740
2741 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2742 programs.
2743
2744 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2745
2746 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2747 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2748 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2749 instead.
2750
2751 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2752 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2753 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2754 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2755 use, but predates the bits convention.
2756
2757 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2758
2759 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2760 subdirectory.
2761
2762 Security related changes:
2763
2764 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2765 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2766 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2767 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2768 script.)
2769
2770 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2771 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2772 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2773 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2774
2775 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2776 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2777 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2778 of service.
2779
2780 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2781 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2782 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2783
2784 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2785 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2786 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2787 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2788
2789 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2790 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2791 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2792 Qualys.
2793
2794 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2795 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2796 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2797 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2798 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2799
2800 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2801 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2802 current directory.
2803
2804 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2805 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2806 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2807
2808 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2809 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2810 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2811
2812 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2813 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2814 small, instead of NULL.
2815
2816 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2817
2818 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2819 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2820 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2821 locale
2822 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2823 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2824 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2825 cases
2826 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2827 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2828 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2829 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2830 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2831 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2832 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2833 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2834 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2835 "Bangla"
2836 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2837 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2838 width Latin characters
2839 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2840 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2841 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2842 letters
2843 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2844 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2845 (CVE-2009-5064)
2846 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2847 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2848 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2849 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2850 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2851 if malloc succeeded
2852 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2853 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2854 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2855 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2856 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2857 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2858 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2859 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2860 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2861 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2862 U+309A
2863 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2864 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2865 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2866 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2867 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2868 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2869 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2870 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2871 for Nicaragua
2872 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2873 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2874 are not found.
2875 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2876 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2877 access
2878 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2879 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2880 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2881 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2882 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2883 __regcall calling convention
2884 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2885 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2886 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2887 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2888 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2889 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2890 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2891 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2892 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2893 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2894 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2895 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2896 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2897 locale
2898 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2899 protector=all
2900 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2901 wcwidth
2902 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2903 consistency check failures
2904 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2905 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2906 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2907 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2908 PIE
2909 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2910 locales
2911 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2912 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2913 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2914 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2915 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2916 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2917 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2918 on memory allocation failure
2919 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2920 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2921 the suspect)
2922 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2923 default (i386)
2924 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2925 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2926 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2927 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2928 instead of EAI_NODATA
2929 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2930 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2931 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2932 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2933 implementation
2934 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2935 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2936 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2937 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2938 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2939 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2940 allocation in syscall loops)
2941 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2942 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2943 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2944 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2945 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2946 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2947 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2948 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2949 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2950 occur with -O3
2951 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2952 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2953 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2954 amounts)
2955 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2956 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2957 niu_NZ
2958 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2959 checks
2960 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2961 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2962 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2963 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2964 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2965 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2966 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2967 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2968 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2969 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2970 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2971 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2972 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2973 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2974 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2975 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2976 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2977 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2978 parsing after OOM
2979 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2980 object
2981 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2982 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2983 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2984 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2985 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2986 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2987 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2988 ppc64le
2989 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2990 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2991 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2992 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2993 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2994 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2995 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2996 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2997 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2998 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2999 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3000 math_force_eval
3001 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3002 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3003 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3004 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3005 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3006 the svid compat wrapper
3007 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3008 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3009 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3010 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3011 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3012 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3013 --verbose.
3014 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3015 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3016 to 2.26
3017 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3018 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3019 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3020 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3021 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3022 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3023 (CVE-2017-15804)
3024 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3025 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3026 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3027 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3028 failure."
3029 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3030 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3031 -m32
3032 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3033 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3034 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3035 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3036 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3037 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3038 inside the ASCII printable range
3039 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3040 -mlong-double-64
3041 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3042 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3043 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3044 Internet
3045 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3046 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3047 backslash
3048 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3049 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3050 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3051 heaps in an arena
3052 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3053 networking interface
3054 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3055 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3056 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3057 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3058 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3059 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3060 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3061 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3062 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3063 order
3064 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3065 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3066 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3067 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3068 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3069 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3070 same as for Croatian
3071 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3072 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3073 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3074 for initial thread"
3075 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3076 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3077 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3078 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3079 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3080 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3081 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3082 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3083 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3084 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3085 modified in case of success
3086 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3087 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3088 success
3089 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3090 stack-protector=all
3091 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3092 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3093 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3094 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3095 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3096 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3097 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3098 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3099 adding it on top
3100 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3101 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3102 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3103 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3104 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3105 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3106 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3107 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3108 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3109 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3110 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3111 elision and tunables
3112 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3113 "invalid" exception
3114 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3115 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3116 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3117 exception
3118 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3119 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3120 power4
3121 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3122 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3123 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3124 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3125 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3126 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3127 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3128 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3129 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3130
3131 \f
3132 Version 2.26
3133
3134 Major new features:
3135
3136 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3137 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3138 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3139 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3140 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3141 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3142 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3143
3144 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3145 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3146 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3147 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3148 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3149 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3150 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3151
3152 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3153 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3154 Egmont Koblinger.
3155
3156 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3157
3158 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3159 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3160 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3161
3162 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3163 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3164 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3165 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3166 object are still limited to six search domains.
3167
3168 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3169 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3170 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3171
3172 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3173 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3174
3175 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3176 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3177 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3178 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3179
3180 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3181 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3182 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3183 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3184
3185 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3186 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3187 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3188 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3189
3190 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3191 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3192 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3193
3194 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3195 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3196 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3197 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3198
3199 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3200 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3201 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3202 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3203 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3204
3205 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3206 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3207 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3208 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3209 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3210 interfaces should be used instead.
3211
3212 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3213
3214 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3215 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3216 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3217 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3218 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3219 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3220 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3221 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3222
3223 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3224 removed.
3225
3226 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3227 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3228 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3229 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3230
3231 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3232 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3233 default.
3234
3235 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3236 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3237 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3238 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3239 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3240
3241 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3242 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3243 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3244 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3245
3246 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3247 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3248 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3249 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3250
3251 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3252 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3253
3254 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3255 exported by accident.
3256
3257 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3258 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3259 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3260
3261 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3262 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3263 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3264 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3265
3266 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3267
3268 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3269
3270 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3271 free instead.
3272
3273 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3274 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3275
3276 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3277 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3278
3279 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3280 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3281 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3282 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3283 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3284 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3285 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3286 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3287
3288 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3289 synced with the kernel:
3290
3291 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3292 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3293
3294 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3295 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3296 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3297
3298 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3299 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3300
3301 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3302
3303 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3304 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3305 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3306
3307 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3308
3309 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3310 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3311
3312 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3313 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3314 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3315 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3316 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3317
3318 Security related changes:
3319
3320 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3321 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3322
3323 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3324 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3325
3326 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3327 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3328 (CVE-2010-3192).
3329
3330 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3331 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3332
3333 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3334
3335 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3336 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3337 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3338 fields
3339 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3340 (CVE-2010-3192)
3341 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3342 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3343 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3344 ld.bfd is available
3345 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3346 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3347 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3348 x86 and other generic code
3349 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3350 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3351 incorrect
3352 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3353 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3354 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3355 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3356 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3357 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3358 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3359 resolver
3360 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3361 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3362 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3363 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3364 chillu characters
3365 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3366 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3367 receiving data
3368 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3369 whitespace
3370 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3371 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3372 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3373 for Peru
3374 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3375 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3376 failures consistently
3377 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3378 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3379 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3380 frame-pointer on i386
3381 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3382 register
3383 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3384 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3385 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3386 generic c code is used
3387 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3388 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3389 around 4000
3390 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3391 (CVE-2017-12133)
3392 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3393 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3394 with -lieee
3395 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3396 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3397 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3398 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3399 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3400 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3401 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3402 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3403 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3404 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3405 remove()
3406 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3407 checked for errors.
3408 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3409 new posix_spawn implementation
3410 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3411 leads to lower CPU frequency
3412 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3413 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3414 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3415 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3416 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3417 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3418 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3419 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3420 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3421 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3422 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3423 not support gethostbyname4_r
3424 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3425 switching
3426 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3427 arenas
3428 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3429 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3430 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3431 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3432 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3433 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3434 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3435 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3436 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3437 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3438 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3439 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3440 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3441 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3442 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3443 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3444 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3445 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3446 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3447 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3448 retry value
3449 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3450 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3451 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3452 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3453 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3454 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3455 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3456 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3457 [21537] libc:
3458 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3459 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3460 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3461 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3462 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3463 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3464 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3465 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3466 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3467 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3468 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3469 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3470 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3471 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3472 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3473 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3474 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3475 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3476 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3477 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3478 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3479 issue on x86-64
3480 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3481 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3482 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3483 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3484 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3485 construction
3486 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3487 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3488 between_2_3
3489 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3490 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3491 conditions
3492 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3493 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3494 Hindi Locale
3495 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3496 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3497 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3498 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3499 locale
3500 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3501 leading to relocation crash
3502 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3503 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3504 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3505 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3506 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3507 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3508 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3509 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3510 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3511 locale
3512 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3513 locale
3514 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3515 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3516 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3517 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3518 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3519 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3520 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3521 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3522 strings
3523 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3524 protector=all
3525 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3526 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3527 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3528 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3529 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3530 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3531 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3532 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3533 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3534 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3535 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3536 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3537 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3538 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3539 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3540 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3541 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3542 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3543 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3544 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3545 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3546 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3547 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3548 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3549 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3550 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3551 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3552 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3553 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3554 with unicode 9.0
3555 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3556 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3557 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3558 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3559 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3560
3561 \f
3562 Version 2.25
3563
3564 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3565 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3566 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3567 Library.
3568
3569 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3570 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3571 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3572 the GNU C Library.
3573
3574 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3575 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3576 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3577 the GNU C Library.
3578
3579 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3580 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3581 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3582 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3583 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3584 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3585 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3586 will not.
3587
3588 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3589 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3590 many years.
3591
3592 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3593 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3594 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3595
3596 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3597 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3598 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3599 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3600 problem.
3601
3602 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3603 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3604 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3605
3606 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3607 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3608 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3609 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3610 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3611 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3612 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3613 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3614 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3615 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3616 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3617 WINT_WIDTH.
3618
3619 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3620
3621 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3622
3623 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3624 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3625 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3626
3627 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3628 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3629
3630 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3631 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3632
3633 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3634
3635 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3636
3637 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3638 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3639
3640 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3641
3642 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3643 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3644
3645 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3646 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3647
3648 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3649 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3650 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3651
3652 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3653 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3654 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3655 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3656 effects of the memory clear).
3657
3658 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3659 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3660 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3661 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3662
3663 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3664 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3665 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3666 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3667 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3668 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3669
3670 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3671 have been added.
3672
3673 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3674 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3675 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3676 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3677 as large as several megabytes.
3678
3679 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3680 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3681 been removed.
3682
3683 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3684 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3685 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3686 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3687 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3688 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3689 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3690
3691 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3692 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3693 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3694 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3695
3696 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3697 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3698 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3699 Internet.
3700
3701 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3702 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3703 They were already unimplemented.
3704
3705 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3706 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3707 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3708 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3709
3710 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3711 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3712 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3713 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3714 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3715
3716 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3717 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3718 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3719 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3720 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3721
3722 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3723 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3724 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3725 did not reflect that.
3726
3727 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3728 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3729 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3730 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3731 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3732 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3733 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3734 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3735
3736 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3737 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3738 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3739 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3740
3741 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3742 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3743 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3744 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3745
3746 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3747 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3748 guarantees.
3749
3750 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3751 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3752 make state changes.
3753
3754 Security related changes:
3755
3756 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3757 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3758 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3759 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3760 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3761
3762 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3763 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3764 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3765 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3766 (CVE-2015-5180)
3767
3768 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3769
3770 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3771 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3772 protector-all
3773 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3774 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3775 before it started waiting
3776 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3777 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3778 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3779 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3780 wrong type
3781 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3782 library linked with pthread
3783 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3784 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3785 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3786 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3787 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3788 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3789 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3790 when it shouldnt
3791 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3792 not
3793 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3794 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3795 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3796 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3797 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3798 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3799 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3800 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3801 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3802 termination
3803 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3804 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3805 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3806 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3807 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3808 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3809 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3810 causes a segmentation fault
3811 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3812 linking
3813 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3814 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3815 uninitialized GOT
3816 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3817 versions
3818 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3819 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3820 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3821 is always true.
3822 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3823 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3824 modes
3825 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3826 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3827 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3828 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3829 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3830 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3831 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3832 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3833 libpthread.a
3834 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3835 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3836 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3837 _res_hconf
3838 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3839 information.
3840 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3841 penalty
3842 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3843 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3844 cause transition penalty
3845 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3846 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3847 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3848 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3849 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3850 mcount.oS)
3851 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3852 Checking
3853 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3854 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3855 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3856 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3857 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3858 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3859 multi-arch
3860 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3861 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3862 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3863 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3864 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3865 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3866 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3867 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3868 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3869 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3870 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3871 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3872 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3873 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3874 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3875 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3876 glibc
3877 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3878 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3879 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3880 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3881 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3882 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3883 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3884 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3885 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3886 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3887 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3888 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3889 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3890 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3891 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3892 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3893 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3894 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3895 RES_USE_INET6
3896 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3897 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3898 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3899 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3900 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3901 wrong condition
3902 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3903 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3904 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3905 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3906 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3907 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3908 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3909 clang
3910 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3911 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3912 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3913 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3914 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3915 \f
3916 Version 2.24
3917
3918 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3919 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3920 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3921 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3922 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3923 architectures.
3924
3925 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3926 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3927 been included in previous releases.
3928
3929 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3930 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3931
3932 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3933 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3934 instead of “union wait”.
3935
3936 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3937 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3938 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3939 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3940 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3941 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3942 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3943
3944 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3945 API.
3946
3947 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3948 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3949 drop it.
3950
3951 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3952 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3953 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3954 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3955 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3956 extensions.
3957
3958 Security related changes:
3959
3960 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3961 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3962 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3963
3964 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3965 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3966 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3967 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3968
3969 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3970 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3971 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3972
3973 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3974 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3975 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3976
3977 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3978 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3979 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3980 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3981
3982 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3983
3984 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3985 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3986 of MS-DOS.
3987 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3988 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3989 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3990 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3991 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3992 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3993 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3994 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3995 CLDR data
3996 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3997 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3998 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3999 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4000 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4001 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4002 romanisation
4003 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4004 and +/-
4005 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4006 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4007 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4008 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4009 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4010 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4011 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4012 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4013 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4014 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4015 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4016 all locales
4017 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4018 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4019 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4020 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4021 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4022 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4023 execute
4024 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4025 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4026 -Wsystem-headers
4027 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4028 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4029 Romanian locale data
4030 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4031 symbol
4032 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4033 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4034 language
4035 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4036 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4037 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4038 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4039 machine
4040 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4041 description
4042 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4043 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4044 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4045 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4046 when using RTLD_NEXT
4047 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4048 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4049 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4050 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4051 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4052 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4053 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4054 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4055 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4056 Excavator core
4057 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4058 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4059 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4060 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4061 double range
4062 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4063 part zero incorrect
4064 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4065 equality tests
4066 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4067 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4068 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4069 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4070 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4071 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4072 glibc-2.22
4073 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4074 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4075 'tst-numeric.c'
4076 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4077 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4078 low part
4079 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4080 result
4081 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4082 unaligned stack
4083 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4084 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4085 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4086 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4087 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4088 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4089 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4090 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4091 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4092 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4093 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4094 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4095 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4096 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4097 modes
4098 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4099 server addresses
4100 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4101 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4102 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4103 response to getaddrinfo
4104 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4105 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4106 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4107 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4108 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4109 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4110 sometimes incorrect
4111 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4112 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4113 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4114 record types
4115 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4116 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4117 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4118 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4119 (CVE-2016-3075)
4120 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4121 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4122 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4123 resolving symbols
4124 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4125 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4126 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4127 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4128 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4129 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4130 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4131 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4132 gethosts
4133 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4134 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4135 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4136 (CVE-2016-3706)
4137 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4138 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4139 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4140 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4141 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4142 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4143 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4144 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4145 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4146 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4147 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4148 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4149 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4150 executable
4151 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4152 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4153 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4154 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4155 XPG3
4156 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4157 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4158 (CVE-2016-4429)
4159 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4160 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4161 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4162 AS not supporting AVX512
4163 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4164 sNaN argument
4165 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4166 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4167 argument
4168 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4169 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4170 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4171 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4172 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4173 eax=0x80000001
4174 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4175 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4176 subnormals
4177 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4178 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4179 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4180 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4181 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4182 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4183 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4184 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4185 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4186 input
4187 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4188 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4189 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4190 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4191 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4192 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4193 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4194 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4195 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4196 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4197 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4198 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4199 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4200 double rounding
4201 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4202 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4203 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4204 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4205 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4206 (Only arm/linux)
4207 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4208 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4209 fallbacks
4210 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4211 "invalid" exceptions
4212 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4213 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4214 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4215 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4216 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4217 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4218 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4219 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4220 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4221 \f
4222 Version 2.23
4223
4224 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4225 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4226 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4227 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4228 89, 16061, and 18568.
4229
4230 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4231 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4232 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4233 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4234 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4235 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4236 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4237
4238 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4239 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4240 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4241
4242 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4243 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4244 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4245 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4246 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4247 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4248 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4249
4250 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4251 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4252 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4253 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4254 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4255 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4256 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4257 Ericsson.)
4258
4259 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4260 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4261 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4262 independent of the GNU C Library.
4263
4264 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4265 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4266
4267 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4268 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4269 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4270 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4271 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4272 Linux kernel.
4273
4274 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4275 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4276
4277 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4278 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4279 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4280 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4281 defining their own copy.
4282
4283 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4284 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4285 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4286
4287 Security related changes:
4288
4289 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4290 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4291
4292 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4293 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4294 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4295 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4296 (CVE-2015-8777)
4297
4298 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4299 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4300
4301 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4302 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4303
4304 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4305 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4306 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4307
4308 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4309 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4310 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4311 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4312 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4313 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4314 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4315 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4316 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4317 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4318 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4319 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4320 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4321
4322 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4323
4324 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4325 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4326 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4327 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4328 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4329 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4330 use `mkstemp'
4331 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4332 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4333 overflow/underflow errors
4334 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4335 overflow/underflow
4336 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4337 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4338 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4339 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4340 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4341 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4342 are not contiguous
4343 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4344 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4345 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4346 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4347 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4348 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4349 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4350 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4351 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4352 all exceptions
4353 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4354 arguments
4355 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4356 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4357 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4358 should include
4359 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4360 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4361 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4362 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4363 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4364 GNU/Linux
4365 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4366 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4367 arguments
4368 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4369 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4370 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4371 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4372 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4373 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4374 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4375 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4376 rounding results
4377 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4378 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4379 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4380 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4381 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4382 fails
4383 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4384 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4385 block boundary
4386 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4387 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4388 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4389 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4390 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4391 4.7?
4392 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4393 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4394 (related to lock elision)
4395 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4396 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4397 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4398 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4399 (CVE-2015-8779)
4400 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4401 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4402 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4403 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4404 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4405 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4406 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4407 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4408 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4409 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4410 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4411 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4412 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4413 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4414 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4415 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4416 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4417 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4418 contains a vector instruction exception.
4419 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4420 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4421 locales
4422 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4423 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4424 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4425 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4426 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4427 missing break ?
4428 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4429 32bit processes
4430 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4431 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4432 infinity
4433 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4434 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4435 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4436 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4437 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4438 be forced unloaded
4439 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4440 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4441 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4442 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4443 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4444 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4445 statically too large
4446 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4447 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4448 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4449 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4450 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4451 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4452 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4453 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4454 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4455 FUTEX_SHARED
4456 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4457 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4458 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4459 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4460 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4461 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4462 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4463 opendir()
4464 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4465 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4466 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4467 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4468 signgam
4469 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4470 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4471 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4472 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4473 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4474 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4475 dependencies
4476 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4477 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4478 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4479 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4480 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4481 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4482 (CVE-2015-8776)
4483 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4484 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4485 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4486 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4487 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4488 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4489 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4490 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4491 contention
4492 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4493 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4494 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4495 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4496 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4497 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4498 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4499 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4500 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4501 rounding modes
4502 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4503 ILP32
4504 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4505 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4506 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4507 threshold
4508 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4509 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4510 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4511 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4512 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4513 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4514 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4515 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4516 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4517 pthread_setaffinity_np
4518 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4519 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4520 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4521 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4522 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4523 prelink
4524 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4525 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4526 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4527 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4528 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4529 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4530 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4531 bits/mathcalls.h
4532 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4533 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4534 for C99-based standards
4535 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4536 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4537 math-only
4538 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4539 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4540 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4541 disabled
4542 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4543 "inexact" exceptions
4544 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4545 arguments
4546 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4547 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4548 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4549 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4550 rules
4551 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4552 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4553 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4554 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4555 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4556 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4557 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4558 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4559 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4560 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4561 from 32bit
4562 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4563 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4564 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4565 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4566 subnormals
4567 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4568 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4569 error on 32-bit architectures
4570 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4571 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4572 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4573 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4574 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4575 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4576 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4577 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4578 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4579 -Os
4580 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4581 CPU's.
4582 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4583 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4584 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4585 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4586 architectures
4587 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4588 \f
4589 Version 2.22
4590
4591 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4592
4593 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4594 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4595 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4596 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4597 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4598 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4599 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4600 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4601 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4602 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4603 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4604 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4605 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4606 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4607 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4608 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4609 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4610 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4611 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4612 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4613
4614 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4615 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4616
4617 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4618 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4619 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4620 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4621 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4622 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4623
4624 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4625 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4626 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4627 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4628 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4629
4630 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4631 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4632 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4633
4634 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4635 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4636 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4637 17998.
4638
4639 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4640 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4641 condition in some applications.
4642
4643 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4644 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4645 pow, powf.
4646 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4647 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4648 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4649 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4650 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4651
4652 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4653 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4654 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4655 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4656
4657 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4658 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4659 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4660
4661 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4662 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4663
4664 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4665 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4666 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4667
4668 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4669 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4670 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4671 \f
4672 Version 2.21
4673
4674 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4675
4676 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4677 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4678 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4679 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4680 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4681 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4682 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4683 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4684 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4685 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4686 17892.
4687
4688 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4689 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4690 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4691 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4692 intended.
4693
4694 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4695 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4696 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4697 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4698 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4699 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4700
4701 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4702
4703 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4704 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4705 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4706
4707 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4708 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4709 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4710 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4711 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4712 effects being visible outside transactions.
4713
4714 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4715 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4716
4717 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4718
4719 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4720 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4721 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4722 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4723 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4724
4725 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4726 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4727
4728 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4729 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4730 format.
4731
4732 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4733 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4734 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4735
4736 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4737 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4738
4739 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4740
4741 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4742 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4743 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4744 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4745
4746 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4747 with newer versions of bison.
4748
4749 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4750 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4751 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4752 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4753 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4754 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4755 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4756 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4757 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4758 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4759 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4760 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4761 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4762
4763 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4764 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4765 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4766 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4767 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4768 \f
4769 Version 2.20
4770
4771 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4772
4773 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4774 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4775 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4776 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4777 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4778 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4779 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4780 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4781 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4782 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4783 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4784 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4785 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4786 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4787 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4788
4789 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4790 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4791 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4792 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4793 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4794 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4795 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4796 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4797 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4798 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4799
4800 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4801 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4802 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4803 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4804 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4805
4806 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4807
4808 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4809 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4810
4811 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4812 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4813 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4814 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4815 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4816 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4817
4818 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4819 from ports.
4820
4821 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4822 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4823 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4824 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4825 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4826 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4827 test macros defined.
4828
4829 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4830
4831 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4832 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4833 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4834 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4835 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4836 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4837 is not built.
4838
4839 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4840 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4841 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4842 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4843 invocation.
4844
4845 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4846 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4847 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4848
4849 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4850 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4851 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4852 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4853
4854 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4855 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4856 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4857 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4858 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4859 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4860 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4861 additional checks.
4862
4863 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4864 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4865 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4866 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4867 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4868 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4869 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4870 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4871 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4872
4873 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4874 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4875 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4876 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4877 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4878 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4879
4880 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4881 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4882 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4883 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4884 \f
4885 Version 2.19
4886
4887 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4888
4889 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4890 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4891 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4892 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4893 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4894 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4895 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4896 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4897 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4898 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4899 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4900 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4901 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4902 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4903 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4904 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4905 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4906 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4907
4908 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4909 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4910
4911 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4912 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4913 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4914 extension which uses __block.
4915
4916 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4917 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4918 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4919 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4920 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4921
4922 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4923 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4924 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4925 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4926 if malloc fails.
4927
4928 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4929 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4930 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4931 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4932 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4933
4934 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4935 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4936 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4937
4938 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4939 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4940 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4941 #15856, #15857).
4942
4943 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4944 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4945
4946 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4947 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4948
4949 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4950
4951 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4952 supported locales.
4953
4954 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4955
4956 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4957
4958 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4959 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4960 for which the C library was built.
4961
4962 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4963 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4964 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4965 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4966 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4967 in the following circumstances:
4968
4969 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4970
4971 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4972 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4973
4974 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4975 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4976
4977 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4978 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4979
4980 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4981
4982 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4983 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4984
4985 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4986
4987 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4988
4989 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4990
4991 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4992 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4993 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4994 disable some of those declarations.
4995
4996 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4997 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4998 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4999
5000 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5001 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5002
5003 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5004 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5005 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5006 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5007 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5008 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5009 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5010 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5011 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5012 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5013 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5014 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5015 require recompilation.
5016 \f
5017 Version 2.18
5018
5019 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5020
5021 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5022 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5023 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5024 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5025 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5026 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5027 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5028 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5029 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5030 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5031 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5032 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5033 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5034 15755, 15759.
5035
5036 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5037 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5038 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5039 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5040 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5041 understands and accepts the risks.
5042
5043 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5044 #15078).
5045
5046 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5047 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5048
5049 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5050 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5051 destructor calls to glibc.
5052
5053 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5054 output.
5055
5056 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5057 non-x86 architectures.
5058
5059 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5060
5061 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5062
5063 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5064 Richard Henderson.
5065
5066 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5067
5068 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5069 Richard Henderson.
5070
5071 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5072 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5073
5074 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5075
5076 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5077 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5078
5079 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5080 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5081
5082 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5083 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5084 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5085
5086 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5087 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5088 attributes of a process.
5089
5090 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5091 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5092 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5093 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5094 mutexes.
5095
5096 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5097 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5098
5099 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5100 \f
5101 Version 2.17
5102
5103 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5104
5105 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5106 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5107 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5108 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5109 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5110 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5111 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5112 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5113 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5114 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5115 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5116 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5117 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5118 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5119 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5120
5121 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5122
5123 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5124 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5125
5126 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5127 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5128
5129 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5130
5131 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5132 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5133 zEnterprise z196.
5134 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5135
5136 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5137 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5138 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5139
5140 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5141 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5142
5143 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5144 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5145
5146 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5147 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5148
5149 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5150 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5151
5152 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5153 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5154 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5155 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5156
5157 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5158 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5159
5160 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5161 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5162 default.
5163
5164 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5165 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5166 information in --help and --version output.
5167
5168 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5169 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5170 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5171
5172 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5173 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5174 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5175 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5176 when the mode is enabled.
5177
5178 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5179 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5180 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5181 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5182 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5183 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5184 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5185
5186 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5187 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
5188 \f
5189 Version 2.16
5190
5191 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5192
5193 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5194 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5195 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5196 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5197 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5198 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5199 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5200 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5201 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5202 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5203 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5204 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5205 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5206 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5207 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5208 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5209 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5210 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5211 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5212 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5213 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5214 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5215 14277, 14278.
5216
5217 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5218 configuring glibc with:
5219 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5220 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5221 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5222
5223 * ISO C11 support:
5224
5225 + define static_assert
5226
5227 + do not declare gets
5228
5229 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5230
5231 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5232 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5233 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5234 implementation.
5235
5236 + timespec_get added
5237
5238 + uchar.h support added
5239
5240 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5241
5242 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5243
5244 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5245
5246 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5247
5248 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5249 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5250
5251 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5253
5254 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5255 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5256 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5257 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5258 existing applications.
5259
5260 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5261 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5262 before 2.6.
5263
5264 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5265 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5266 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5267
5268 * New locales: mag_IN
5269
5270 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5271 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5272 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5273 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5274 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5275
5276 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5277
5278 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5279 and Will Schmidt.
5280
5281 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5282
5283 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5284 without a previously built glibc.
5285
5286 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5287 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5288
5289 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5290 now supported for ARM processors.
5291
5292 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5293 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5294 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5295
5296 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5297
5298 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5299 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5300 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5301 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5302
5303 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5304 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5305 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5306 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5307
5308 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5309 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5310 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5311 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5312 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5313
5314 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5315 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5316 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5317 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5318 \f
5319 Version 2.15
5320
5321 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5322
5323 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5324 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5325 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5326 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5327 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5328 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5329 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5330
5331 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5332 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5333
5334 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5335 and support for initgroups lookups.
5336 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5337
5338 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5339 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5340
5341 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5342 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5343
5344 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5345 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5346 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5347
5348 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5349 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5350
5351 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5352 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5353 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5354
5355 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5356 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5357
5358 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5360
5361 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5363
5364 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5366
5367 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5368 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5369
5370 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5372
5373 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5374
5375 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5376 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5377
5378 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5379 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5380
5381 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5382 \f
5383 Version 2.14
5384
5385 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5386
5387 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5388 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5389 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5390 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5391 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5392 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5393 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5394 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5395 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5396 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5397
5398 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5399 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5400 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5401 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5402
5403 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5404 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5405 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5407
5408 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5409 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5410
5411 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5412 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5413
5414 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5415
5416 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5417 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5418
5419 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5420 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5421 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5422 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5423 \f
5424 Version 2.13
5425
5426 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5427
5428 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5429 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5430 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5431 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5432 12378, 12394, 12397
5433
5434 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5435
5436 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5437
5438 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5439 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5441 \f
5442 Version 2.12
5443
5444 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5445
5446 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5447 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5448 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5449 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5450 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5451 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5452 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5453 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5454
5455 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5456
5457 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5458
5459 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5460
5461 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5462 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5464
5465 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5466 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5467 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5468 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5470
5471 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5472 \f
5473 Version 2.11
5474
5475 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5476
5477 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5478 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5479 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5480 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5481 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5482 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5483
5484 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5485 mkostemps64
5486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5487
5488 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5489 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5490
5491 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5492 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5493
5494 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5495
5496 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5497 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5498 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5499 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5500
5501 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5503
5504 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5505 strstr, strcasestr.
5506 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5507
5508 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5509 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5510
5511 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5512 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5513
5514 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5516
5517 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5518 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5519 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5520 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5521 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5522 necessity is every process again.
5523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5524
5525 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5526 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5527
5528 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5529 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5530
5531 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5532 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5534
5535 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5536 \f
5537 Version 2.10
5538
5539 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5540
5541 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5542 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5543 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5544 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5545 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5546
5547 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5549
5550 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5551 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5552
5553 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5554 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5555
5556 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5557 now in POSIX.
5558
5559 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5561
5562 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5564
5565 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5566 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5567
5568 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5569 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5570
5571 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5572 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5573 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5574
5575 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5576
5577 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5578 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5579
5580 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5581 and extend existing format specifiers.
5582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5583
5584 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5585 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5586
5587 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5588 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5589 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5590 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5591 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5593 \f
5594 Version 2.9
5595
5596 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5597
5598 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5599 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5600 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5601 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5602 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5603
5604 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5605 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5606
5607 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5608 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5609
5610 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5611 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5612
5613 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5614 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5616
5617 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5618 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5619
5620 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5621
5622 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5623 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5624
5625 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5626 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5627 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5628 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5629
5630 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5631 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5632
5633 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5634 Sinhala)
5635 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5636
5637 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5638 \f
5639 Version 2.8
5640
5641 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5642
5643 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5644 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5645 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5646 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5647 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5648 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5649 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5650
5651 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5652
5653 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5654
5655 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5656 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5657
5658 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5659
5660 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5662
5663 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5664 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5665
5666 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5667 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5668 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5669
5670 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5671 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5672
5673 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5674 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5675
5676 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5678
5679 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5680 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5681 \f
5682 Version 2.7
5683
5684 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5685
5686 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5687 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5688 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5689 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5690 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5691
5692 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5693 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5694
5695 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5696
5697 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5698 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5699 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5700
5701 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5702 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5703
5704 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5705 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5706
5707 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5708
5709 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5710 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5711
5712 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5713 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5714
5715 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5716 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5717
5718 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5719
5720 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5721 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5722
5723 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5724 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5725 yo_NG.
5726
5727 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5729 \f
5730 Version 2.6
5731
5732 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5733
5734 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5735 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5736 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5737 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5738 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5739 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5740 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5741 4702, 4858
5742
5743 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5744
5745 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5746
5747 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5748 \f
5749 Version 2.5
5750
5751 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5752
5753 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5754 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5755 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5756 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5757 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5758 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5759 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5760 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5761 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5762
5763 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5764 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5766
5767 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5769
5770 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5771
5772 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5773
5774 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5775 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5776 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5777 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5778 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5779
5780 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5781 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5782 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5783 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5784
5785 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5786 Ulrich Drepper.
5787
5788 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5789
5790 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5791 Ulrich Drepper.
5792
5793 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5794
5795 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5796 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5797 \f
5798 Version 2.4
5799
5800 * More overflow detection functions.
5801
5802 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5803 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5804
5805 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5806 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5807 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5808 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5809 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5810 by Masahide Washizawa.
5811
5812 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5813 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5814
5815 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5816 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5817 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5818 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5819
5820 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5821 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5822
5823 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5824
5825 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5826 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5827 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5828
5829 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5830 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5831
5832 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5833 for compatibility with some other systems.
5834
5835 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5836 \f
5837 Version 2.3.6
5838
5839 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5840
5841 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5842 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5843 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5844 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5845 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5846 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5847
5848 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5849
5850 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5851
5852 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5853 \f
5854 Version 2.3.5
5855
5856 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5857
5858 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5859 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5860 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5861 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5862
5863 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5864 \f
5865 Version 2.3.4
5866
5867 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5868 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5869
5870 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5871 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5873
5874 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5875 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5876
5877 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5878 efficiently.
5879 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5880
5881 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5882 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5883 handling data.
5884
5885 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5886 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5887 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5888
5889 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5890 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5891
5892 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5893 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5894 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5895 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5896
5897 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5898 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5899 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5900 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5901
5902 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5903 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5904 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5905 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5906 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5907 \f
5908 Version 2.3.3
5909
5910 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5911 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5912
5913 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5914 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5915
5916 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5917 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5918
5919 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5920 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5921
5922 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5923 by Roland McGrath.
5924
5925 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5926 and Ulrich Drepper.
5927
5928 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5929 RFC 3484.
5930 \f
5931 Version 2.3.2
5932
5933 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5934 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5935 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5936 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5937 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5938 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5939 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5940 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5941 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5942
5943 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5944 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5945 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5946
5947 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5948
5949 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5950 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5951
5952 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5953 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5954
5955 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5956
5957 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5958 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5959
5960 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5961 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5962 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5963 of weak definition in ld.so.
5964
5965 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5966 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5967
5968 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5969 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5970 \f
5971 Version 2.3
5972
5973 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5974 charsets.
5975
5976 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5977 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5978
5979 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5980 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5981
5982 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5983 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5984
5985 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5986 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5987 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5988
5989 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5990 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5991
5992 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5993 implementation of regex.
5994
5995 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5996 Unicode 3.2.
5997
5998 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5999 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6000
6001 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6002 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6003 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6004
6005 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6006 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6007
6008 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6009 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6010 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6011
6012 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6013 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6014
6015 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6016 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6017 and Ulrich Drepper.
6018
6019 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6020 \f
6021 Version 2.2.6
6022
6023 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6024 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6025
6026 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6027 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6028 \f
6029 Version 2.2.5
6030
6031 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6032 128-bit long double format.
6033
6034 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6035 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6036
6037 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6038
6039 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6040
6041 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6042 as well.
6043
6044 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6045 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6046
6047 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6048 \f
6049 Version 2.2.4
6050
6051 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6052 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6053
6054 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6055 support Unicode 3.1.
6056
6057 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6058 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6059
6060 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6061
6062 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6063 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6064 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6065
6066 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6067 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6068
6069 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6070 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6071
6072 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6073 \f
6074 Version 2.2.3
6075
6076 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6077 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6078 in float, double, and long double format.
6079
6080 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6081 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6082 128-bit long double format.
6083
6084 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6085 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6086 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6087 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6088
6089 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6090 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6091 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6092
6093 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6094 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6095
6096 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6097 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6098
6099 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6100 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6101 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6102
6103 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6104 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6105
6106 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6107 of functions for Linux/x86.
6108
6109 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6110 \f
6111 Version 2.2.2
6112
6113 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6114 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6115 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6116 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6117 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6118 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6119 other headers.
6120
6121 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6122 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6123
6124 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6125 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6126 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6127 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6128
6129 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6130 locales. While
6131
6132 locale -a
6133
6134 only lists the names of the supported locales
6135
6136 locale -a --verbose
6137
6138 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6139 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6140 \f
6141 Version 2.2.1
6142
6143 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6144 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6145 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6146 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6147 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6148
6149 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6150
6151 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6152
6153 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6154
6155 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6156 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6157 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6158
6159 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6160 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6161
6162 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6163 changed from the default "C" locale.
6164
6165 * The usual bug fixes.
6166 \f
6167 Version 2.2
6168
6169 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6170 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6171 is in progress.
6172
6173 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6174
6175 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6176
6177 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6178 obviously requires a database library being available.
6179
6180 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6181
6182 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6183
6184 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6185 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6186
6187 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6188
6189 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6190 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6191 and Mark Kettenis.
6192
6193 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6194 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6195 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6196
6197 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6198 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6199
6200 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6201 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6202 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6203
6204 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6205 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6206 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6207 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6208
6209 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6210 structures for the wide character tables.
6211
6212 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6213
6214 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6215
6216 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6217
6218 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6219 and Yutaka Niibe.
6220
6221 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6222
6223 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6224
6225 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6226
6227 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6228
6229 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6230
6231 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6232 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6233 implemented for Linux.
6234
6235 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6236 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6237 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6238 versions.
6239
6240 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6241 Masahide Washizawa.
6242
6243 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6244 \f
6245 Version 2.1.3
6246
6247 * bug fixes
6248
6249 \f
6250 Version 2.1.2
6251
6252 * bug fixes
6253
6254 \f
6255 Version 2.1.1
6256
6257 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6258
6259 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6260
6261 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6262
6263 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6264
6265 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6266
6267 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6268
6269 * Update timezone data files.
6270
6271 * lots of charmaps corrections
6272
6273 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6274
6275 \f
6276 Version 2.1
6277
6278 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6279 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6280 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6281 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6282 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6283 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6284
6285 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6286 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6287
6288 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6289 symbol level.
6290
6291 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6292 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6293
6294 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6295
6296 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6297 numbers.
6298
6299 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6300
6301 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6302 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6303
6304 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6305 library.
6306
6307 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6308 functions from ISO C 9X.
6309
6310 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6311 real valued functions.
6312
6313 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6314
6315 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6316
6317 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6318
6319 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6320
6321 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6322
6323 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6324
6325 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6326
6327 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6328 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6329
6330 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6331 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6332
6333 user system wall
6334
6335 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6336
6337 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6338
6339 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6340
6341 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6342
6343 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6344
6345 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6346
6347 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6348 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6349 horribly slow.
6350
6351 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6352 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6353
6354 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6355
6356 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6357
6358 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6359 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6360
6361 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6362
6363 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6364 Bambrough.
6365
6366 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6367 latest draft standards.
6368
6369 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6370
6371 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6372 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6373 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6374 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6375 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6376 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6377 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6378 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6379 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6380 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6381 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6382 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6383 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6384 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6385 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6386 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6387 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6388 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6389 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6390 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6391 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6392 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6393 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6394 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6395 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6396 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6397 capget NEW: kernel
6398 capset NEW: kernel
6399 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6400 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6401 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6402 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6403 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6404 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6405 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6406 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6407 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6408 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6409 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6410 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6411 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6412 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6413 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6414 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6415 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6416 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6417 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6418 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6419 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6420 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6421 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6422 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6423 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6424 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6425 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6426 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6427 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6428 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6429 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6430 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6431 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6432 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6433 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6434 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6435 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6436 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6437 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6438 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6439 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6440 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6441 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6442 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6443 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6444 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6445 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6446 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6447 creat64 NEW: LFS
6448 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6449 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6450 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6451 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6452 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6453 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6454 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6455 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6456 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6457 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6458 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6459 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6460 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6461 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6462 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6463 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6464 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6465 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6466 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6467 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6468 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6469 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6470 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6471 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6472 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6473 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6474 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6475 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6476 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6477 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6478 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6479 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6480 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6481 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6482 feof_locked REMOVED
6483 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6484 ferror_locked REMOVED
6485 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6486 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6487 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6488 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6489 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6490 fflush_locked REMOVED
6491 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6492 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6493 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6494 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6495 fileno_locked REMOVED
6496 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6497 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6498 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6499 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6500 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6501 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6502 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6503 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6504 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
6505 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
6506 fopen64 NEW: LFS
6507 fputc_locked REMOVED
6508 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6509 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6510 freopen64 NEW: LFS
6511 fseeko NEW: Unix98
6512 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6513 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6514 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6515 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6516 ftello NEW: Unix98
6517 ftello64 NEW: LFS
6518 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6519 ftw64 NEW: LFS
6520 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6521 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6522 gamma_r REMOVED
6523 gammaf_r REMOVED
6524 gammal_r REMOVED
6525 getchar_locked REMOVED
6526 getdate NEW: Unix98
6527 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6528 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6529 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6530 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6531 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6532 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6533 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6534 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6535 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6536 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6537 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6538 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6539 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6540 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6541 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6542 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6543 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6544 iconv NEW: iconv
6545 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6546 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6547 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6548 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6549 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6550 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6551 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6552 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6553 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6554 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6555 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6556 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6557 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6558 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6559 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6560 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6561 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6562 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6563 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6564 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6565 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6566 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6567 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6568 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6569 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6570 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6571 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6572 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6573 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6574 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6575 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6576 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6577 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6578 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6579 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6580 lseek64 NEW: LFS
6581 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6582 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6583 mmap64 NEW: LFS
6584 moncontrol REMOVED
6585 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6586 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6587 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6588 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6589 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6590 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6591 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6592 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6593 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6594 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6595 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6596 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6597 nftw NEW: Unix98
6598 nftw64 NEW: LFS
6599 open64 NEW: LFS
6600 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6601 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6602 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6603 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6604 pread NEW: Unix98
6605 pread64 NEW: LFS
6606 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6607 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6608 profil_counter REMOVED
6609 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6610 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6611 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6612 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6613 putc_locked REMOVED
6614 putchar_locked REMOVED
6615 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6616 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6617 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6618 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6619 pwrite NEW: Unix98
6620 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6621 readdir64 NEW: LFS
6622 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6623 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6624 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6625 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6626 round NEW: ISO C 9x
6627 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6628 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6629 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6630 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6631 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6632 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6633 scandir64 NEW: LFS
6634 sendfile NEW: kernel
6635 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6636 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6637 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6638 sighold NEW: Unix98
6639 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6640 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6641 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6642 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6643 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6644 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6645 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6646 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6647 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6648 statfs64 NEW: LFS
6649 statvfs NEW: Unix98
6650 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6651 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6652 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6653 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6654 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6655 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6656 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6657 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6658 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6659 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6660 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6661 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6662 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6663 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6664 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6665 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6666 truncate64 NEW: LFS
6667 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6668 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6669 umount2 NEW: kernel
6670 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6671 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6672 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6673 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6674 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6675 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6676 waitid NEW: Unix98
6677 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6678 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6679 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6680 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6681 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6682 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6683 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6684 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6685 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6686 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6687 write_profiling REMOVED
6688 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6689 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6690 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6691 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6692 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6693 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6694 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6695 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6696 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6697 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6698 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6699 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6700 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6701 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6702 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6703 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6704 \f
6705 Version 2.0.6
6706
6707 * more bug fixes
6708
6709 \f
6710 Version 2.0.5
6711
6712 * more bug fixes
6713
6714 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6715
6716 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6717
6718 * rewrite of cbrt function
6719
6720 * update of timezone data
6721 \f
6722 Version 2.0.4
6723
6724 * more bug fixes
6725 \f
6726 Version 2.0.3
6727
6728 * more bug fixes
6729 \f
6730 Version 2.0.2
6731
6732 * more bug fixes
6733
6734 * add atoll function
6735
6736 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6737
6738 * fix math functions
6739 \f
6740 Version 2.0.1
6741
6742 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6743
6744 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6745
6746 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6747 the ELF dynamic loader.
6748
6749 * support for parallel builds is improved
6750 \f
6751 Version 2.0
6752
6753 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6754 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6755 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6756
6757 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6758 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6759 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6760 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6761 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6762 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6763 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6764 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6765 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6766 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6767 files in the ELF format.
6768
6769 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6770 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6771
6772 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6773 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6774 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6775 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6776 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6777 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6778 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6779 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6780 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6781 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6782 about dynamically linked binaries.
6783
6784 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6785 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6786 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6787 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6788 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6789
6790 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6791 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6792 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6793 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6794 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6795
6796 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6797
6798 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6799 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6800 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6801 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6802 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6803 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6804 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6805 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6806 NSS services available.
6807
6808 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6809 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6810 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6811
6812 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6813 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6814 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6815
6816 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6817 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6818 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6819 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6820
6821 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6822 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6823 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6824
6825 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6826 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6827 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6828
6829 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6830 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6831
6832 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6833 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6834 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6835 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6836
6837 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6838 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6839 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6840
6841 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6842 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6843 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6844 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6845 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6846 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6847 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6848 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6849
6850 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6851 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6852 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6853 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6854 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6855 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6856 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6857
6858 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6859 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6860 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6861 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6862 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6863 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6864
6865 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6866 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6867
6868 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6869 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6870 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6871
6872 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6873
6874 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6875 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6876 their use is discouraged.
6877
6878 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6879 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6880
6881 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6882 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6883
6884 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6885 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6886
6887 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6888 see <dirent.h>.
6889
6890 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6891 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6892 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6893 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6894 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6895
6896 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6897 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6898 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6899 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6900
6901 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6902 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6903
6904 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6905 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6906 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6907 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6908 number generator.
6909
6910 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6911 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6912
6913 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6914 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6915
6916 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6917 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6918 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6919 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6920
6921 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6922
6923 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6924 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6925 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6926
6927 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6928 for arithmetic and string handling.
6929
6930 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6931 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6932 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6933 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6934
6935 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6936 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6937 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6938 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6939 programs already written to use it.)
6940
6941 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6942 constants.
6943
6944 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6945 with 4.4 BSD.
6946
6947 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6948 a given effective group ID.
6949
6950 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6951 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6952 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6953 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6954
6955 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6956 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6957 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6958 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6959 doing the same thing.
6960
6961 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6962 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6963
6964 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6965 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6966
6967 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6968
6969 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6970 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6971 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6972 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6973 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6974
6975 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6976 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6977
6978 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6979 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6980 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6981 function.
6982
6983 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6984
6985 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6986 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6987 strings.
6988
6989 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6990 and writing the utmp file.
6991
6992 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6993 Thorsten Kukuk.
6994
6995 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6996 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6997 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6998
6999 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7000 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7001
7002 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7003 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7004 specification.
7005
7006 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7007 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7008 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7009 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7010
7011 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7012 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7013 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7014
7015 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7016 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7017 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7018 expression matcher.
7019
7020 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7021 functionality.
7022
7023 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7024 by Ulrich Drepper.
7025
7026 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7027
7028 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7029 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7030 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7031 \f
7032 Version 1.09
7033
7034 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7035
7036 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7037 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7038
7039 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7040 want to put themselves in the background.
7041
7042 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7043 run without an operating system.
7044
7045 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7046 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7047
7048 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7049 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7050
7051 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7052
7053 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7054 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7055 have YP (aka NIS).
7056
7057 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7058 conventions.
7059
7060 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7061 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7062 \f
7063 Version 1.08
7064
7065 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7066 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7067 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7068
7069 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7070 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7071
7072 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7073 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7074
7075 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7076
7077 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7078
7079 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7080 compatibility.
7081
7082 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7083 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7084 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7085
7086 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7087
7088 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7089 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7090 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7091
7092 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7093 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7094 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7095 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7096 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7097 on a block).
7098
7099 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7100 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7101 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7102 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7103 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7104 cross-compiler.
7105
7106 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7107 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7108 \f
7109 Version 1.07
7110
7111 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7112 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7113
7114 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7115 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7116 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7117
7118 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7119 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7120 address of the last character written.
7121
7122 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7123 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7124
7125 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7126 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7127
7128 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7129 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7130 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7131 you dereference this pointer.
7132
7133 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7134 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7135
7136 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7137 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7138 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7139 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7140
7141 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7142 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7143 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7144 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7145 \f
7146 Version 1.06
7147
7148 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7149 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7150 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7151 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7152 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7153
7154 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7155
7156 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7157
7158 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7159 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7160
7161 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7162 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7163
7164 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7165 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7166
7167 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7168 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7169 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7170 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7171 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7172
7173 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7174 to the error code in `errno'.
7175
7176 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7177 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7178 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7179 malloc'd string.
7180
7181 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7182 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7183 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7184
7185 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7186 uniquely-named temporary file.
7187 \f
7188 Version 1.05
7189
7190 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7191 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7192 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7193
7194 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7195 characters.
7196
7197 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7198 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7199
7200 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7201 \f
7202 Version 1.04
7203
7204 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7205 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7206 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7207 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7208
7209 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7210 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7211 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7212
7213 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7214 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7215
7216 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7217 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7218 made itself into a shared library.
7219
7220 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7221 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7222
7223 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7224 with limited length.
7225
7226 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7227
7228 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7229
7230 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7231
7232 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7233 function for traversing a directory tree.
7234
7235 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7236 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7237 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7238 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7239
7240 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7241 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7242
7243 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7244
7245 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7246 things to your strings.
7247
7248 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7249
7250 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7251 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7252 supporting those systems.
7253
7254 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7255 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7256 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7257 configuration files.
7258
7259 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7260 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7261
7262 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7263 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7264 in <strings.h>.)
7265
7266 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7267 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7268 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7269 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7270 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7271 required storage is not available.
7272
7273 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7274 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7275
7276 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7277 latest files released from Berkeley.
7278 \f
7279 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
7280 Copying conditions:
7281
7282 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7283 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7284 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7285 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7286
7287 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7288 of this document, or of portions of it,
7289 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7290 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7291 \f
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7293 version-control: never
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