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