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