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