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8 Version 2.28.1
9
10 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
11
12 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
13 [22927] libanl: properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed
14 [23400] stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc source tree
15 [23497] readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
16 [23509] CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older linker
17 [23521] nss_files aliases database file stream leak
18 [23538] pthread_cond_broadcast: Fix waiters-after-spinning case
19 [23562] signal: Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t
20 [23578] regex: Fix memory overread in re_compile_pattern
21 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
22 [23606] Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
23 [23614] powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* functions
24 [23679] gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
25 [23709] Fix CPU string flags for Haswell-type CPUs
26 [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9
27 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
28 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
29 [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591)
30 [23972] __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
31
32 Security related changes:
33
34 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
35 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
36 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
37 \f
38 Version 2.28
39
40 Major new features:
41
42 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
43 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
44 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
45 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
46 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
47 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
48 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
49 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
50 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
51 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
52 archive or binary locales.
53
54 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
55 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
56 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
57 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
58 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
59 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
60 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
61 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
62 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
63 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
64 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
65 validated for i686.
66
67 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
68 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
69 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
70 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
71 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
72 field) to indicate such support is required.
73
74 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
75 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
76 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
77
78 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
79 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
80
81 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
82 fMxaddfNx functions.
83
84 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
85 fMxsubfNx functions.
86
87 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
88 fMxmulfNx functions.
89
90 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
91 fMxdivfNx functions.
92
93 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
94 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
95 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
96 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
97 and Kashubian.
98
99 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
100 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
101
102 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
103 patches.
104
105 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
106 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
107 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
108 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
109 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
110 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
111 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
112 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
113
114 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
115 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
116 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
117 the fstatat64 function.
118
119 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
120 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
121 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
122 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
123 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
124 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
125 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
126 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
127 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
128
129 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
130 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
131 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
132 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
133 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
134 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
135 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
136 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
137 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
138 results in a load failure now.
139
140 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
141 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
142 <threads.h>:
143
144 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
145 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
146
147 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
148 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
149
150 - call_once for function call synchronization.
151
152 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
153 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
154
155 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
156
157 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
158
159 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
160
161 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
162 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
163 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
164
165 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
166 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
167 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
168 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
169 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
170 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
171
172 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
173 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
174 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
175 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
176 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
177 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
178 (Bug #1190.)
179
180 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
181 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
182 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
183 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
184 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
185 further explanation.
186
187 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
188 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
189 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
190
191 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
192
193 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
194 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
195 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
196
197 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
198 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
199 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
200 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
201
202 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
203 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
204 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
205 for this function instead.
206
207 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
208 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
209 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
210
211 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
212 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
213 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
214 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
215
216 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
217 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
218 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
219 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
220 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
221
222 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
223 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
224 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
225 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
226 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
227 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
228 such as libgcrypt.
229
230 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
231 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
232 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
233 enabled.
234
235 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
236 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
237 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
238
239 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
240 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
241 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
242 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
243 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
244 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
245
246 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
247 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
248 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
249 behavior in a future release.
250
251 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
252
253 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
254
255 Security related changes:
256
257 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
258 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
259 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
260 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
261
262 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
263 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
264
265 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
266 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
267 Izbyshev.
268
269 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
270 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
271 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
272
273 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
274
275 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
276 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
277 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
278 when __WORDSIZE != 64
279 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
280 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
281 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
282 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
283 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
284 14651
285 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
286 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
287 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
288 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
289 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
290 conversion is given
291 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
292 date
293 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
294 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
295 scope with -O1 and higher
296 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
297 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
298 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
299 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
300 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
301 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
302 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
303 horrible machine code)
304 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
305 last constant.
306 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
307 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
308 symbols
309 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
310 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
311 defined
312 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
313 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
314 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
315 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
316 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
317 fpscr.c'
318 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
319 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
320 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
321 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
322 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
323 the base address
324 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
325 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
326 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
327 open_verify
328 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
329 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
330 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
331 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
332 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
333 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
334 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
335 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
336 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
337 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
338 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
339 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
340 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
341 dlopen
342 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
343 AT_SECURE=1
344 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
345 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
346 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
347 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
348 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
349 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
350 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
351 for Spanish with CLDR
352 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
353 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
354 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
355 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
356 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
357 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
358 es_BO
359 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
360 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
361 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
362 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
363 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
364 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
365 dlopen failures
366 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
367 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
368 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
369 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
370 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
371 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
372 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
373 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
374 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
375 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
376 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
377 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
378 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
379 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
380 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
381 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
382 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
383 makecontext
384 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
385 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
386 required
387 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
388 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
389 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
390 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
391 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
392 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
393 disabled
394 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
395 failure
396 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
397 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
398 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
399 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
400 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
401 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
402 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
403 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
404 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
405 and libc build with -Os)
406 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
407 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
408 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
409 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
410 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
411 that changes /etc/passwd
412 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
413 (CVE-2018-11237)
414 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
415 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
416 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
417 posix/regcomp.c
418 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
419 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
420 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
421 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
422 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
423 AT_SECURE
424 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
425 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
426 parser.c
427 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
428 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
429 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
430 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
431 directed rounding
432 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
433 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
434 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
435 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
436 lookup
437 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
438 interposition
439 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
440 DSO boundaries.
441 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
442 <linux/time.h>
443 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
444 checking
445 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
446 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
447 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
448 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
449 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
450 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
451 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
452 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
453 processors
454 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
455
456 \f
457 Version 2.27
458
459 Major new features:
460
461 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
462 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
463 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
464 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
465 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
466 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
467 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
468 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
469 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
470
471 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
472 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
473 H.J. Lu from Intel.
474
475 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
476
477 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
478
479 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
480 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
481 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
482 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
483 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
484 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
485 from a security and performance perspective.
486
487 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
488 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
489 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
490 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
491
492 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
493 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
494 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
495 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
496 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
497
498 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
499 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
500 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
501 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
502 _Float128.
503
504 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
505 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
506 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
507
508 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
509
510 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
511 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
512 pkey_get.
513
514 * The copy_file_range function was added.
515
516 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
517
518 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
519 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
520 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
521
522 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
523 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
524 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
525 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
526 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
527 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
528 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
529
530 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
531 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
532 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
533 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
534 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
535 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
536 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
537
538 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
539 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
540 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
541 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
542 respectively.
543
544 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
545 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
546 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
547 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
548
549 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
550 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
551 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
552
553 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
554 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
555 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
556
557 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
558 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
559 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
560
561 - rv64imac lp64
562 - rv64imafdc lp64
563 - rv64imafdc lp64d
564
565 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
566
567 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
568 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
569 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
570 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
571 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
572 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
573 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
574 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
575 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
576 fix this.
577
578 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
579 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
580 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
581
582 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
583 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
584 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
585 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
586 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
587 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
588 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
589 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
590 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
591 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
592 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
593 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
594 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
595 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
596 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
597 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
598 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
599 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
600 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
601 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
602 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
603 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
604 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
605 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
606 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
607 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
608
609 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
610 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
611
612 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
613 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
614 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
615 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
616 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
617 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
618 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
619
620 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
621 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
622 exp10l for these functions instead.
623
624 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
625 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
626 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
627
628 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
629 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
630 ignored.
631
632 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
633 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
634 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
635 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
636
637 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
638 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
639
640 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
641 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
642
643 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
644 programs.
645
646 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
647
648 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
649 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
650 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
651 instead.
652
653 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
654 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
655 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
656 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
657 use, but predates the bits convention.
658
659 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
660
661 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
662 subdirectory.
663
664 Security related changes:
665
666 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
667 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
668 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
669 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
670 script.)
671
672 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
673 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
674 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
675 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
676
677 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
678 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
679 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
680 of service.
681
682 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
683 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
684 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
685
686 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
687 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
688 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
689 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
690
691 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
692 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
693 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
694 Qualys.
695
696 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
697 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
698 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
699 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
700 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
701
702 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
703 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
704 current directory.
705
706 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
707 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
708 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
709
710 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
711 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
712 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
713
714 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
715 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
716 small, instead of NULL.
717
718 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
719
720 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
721 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
722 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
723 locale
724 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
725 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
726 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
727 cases
728 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
729 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
730 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
731 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
732 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
733 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
734 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
735 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
736 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
737 "Bangla"
738 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
739 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
740 width Latin characters
741 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
742 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
743 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
744 letters
745 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
746 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
747 (CVE-2009-5064)
748 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
749 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
750 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
751 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
752 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
753 if malloc succeeded
754 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
755 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
756 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
757 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
758 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
759 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
760 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
761 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
762 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
763 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
764 U+309A
765 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
766 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
767 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
768 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
769 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
770 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
771 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
772 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
773 for Nicaragua
774 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
775 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
776 are not found.
777 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
778 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
779 access
780 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
781 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
782 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
783 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
784 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
785 __regcall calling convention
786 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
787 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
788 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
789 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
790 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
791 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
792 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
793 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
794 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
795 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
796 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
797 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
798 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
799 locale
800 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
801 protector=all
802 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
803 wcwidth
804 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
805 consistency check failures
806 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
807 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
808 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
809 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
810 PIE
811 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
812 locales
813 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
814 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
815 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
816 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
817 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
818 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
819 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
820 on memory allocation failure
821 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
822 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
823 the suspect)
824 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
825 default (i386)
826 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
827 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
828 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
829 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
830 instead of EAI_NODATA
831 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
832 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
833 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
834 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
835 implementation
836 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
837 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
838 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
839 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
840 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
841 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
842 allocation in syscall loops)
843 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
844 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
845 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
846 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
847 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
848 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
849 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
850 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
851 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
852 occur with -O3
853 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
854 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
855 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
856 amounts)
857 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
858 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
859 niu_NZ
860 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
861 checks
862 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
863 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
864 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
865 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
866 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
867 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
868 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
869 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
870 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
871 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
872 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
873 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
874 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
875 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
876 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
877 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
878 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
879 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
880 parsing after OOM
881 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
882 object
883 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
884 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
885 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
886 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
887 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
888 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
889 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
890 ppc64le
891 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
892 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
893 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
894 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
895 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
896 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
897 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
898 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
899 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
900 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
901 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
902 math_force_eval
903 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
904 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
905 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
906 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
907 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
908 the svid compat wrapper
909 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
910 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
911 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
912 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
913 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
914 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
915 --verbose.
916 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
917 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
918 to 2.26
919 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
920 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
921 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
922 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
923 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
924 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
925 (CVE-2017-15804)
926 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
927 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
928 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
929 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
930 failure."
931 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
932 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
933 -m32
934 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
935 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
936 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
937 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
938 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
939 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
940 inside the ASCII printable range
941 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
942 -mlong-double-64
943 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
944 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
945 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
946 Internet
947 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
948 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
949 backslash
950 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
951 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
952 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
953 heaps in an arena
954 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
955 networking interface
956 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
957 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
958 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
959 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
960 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
961 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
962 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
963 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
964 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
965 order
966 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
967 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
968 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
969 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
970 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
971 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
972 same as for Croatian
973 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
974 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
975 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
976 for initial thread"
977 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
978 SC_SSIZE_MAX
979 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
980 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
981 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
982 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
983 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
984 (CVE-2017-1000408)
985 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
986 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
987 modified in case of success
988 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
989 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
990 success
991 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
992 stack-protector=all
993 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
994 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
995 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
996 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
997 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
998 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
999 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1000 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1001 adding it on top
1002 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1003 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1004 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1005 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1006 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1007 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1008 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1009 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1010 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1011 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1012 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1013 elision and tunables
1014 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1015 "invalid" exception
1016 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1017 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1018 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1019 exception
1020 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1021 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1022 power4
1023 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1024 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1025 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1026 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1027 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1028 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1029 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1030 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1031 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
1032
1033 \f
1034 Version 2.26
1035
1036 Major new features:
1037
1038 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1039 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1040 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1041 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1042 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1043 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1044 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1045
1046 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1047 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
1048 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1049 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1050 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1051 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1052 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
1053
1054 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1055 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1056 Egmont Koblinger.
1057
1058 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
1059
1060 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1061 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1062 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
1063
1064 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1065 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1066 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1067 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1068 object are still limited to six search domains.
1069
1070 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1071 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1072 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
1073
1074 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1075 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
1076
1077 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1078 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1079 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1080 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
1081
1082 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1083 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1084 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1085 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
1086
1087 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1088 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1089 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1090 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
1091
1092 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1093 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1094 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
1095
1096 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
1097 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1098 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1099 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
1100
1101 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
1102 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1103 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1104 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1105 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1106
1107 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1108 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1109 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1110 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1111 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1112 interfaces should be used instead.
1113
1114 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1115
1116 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1117 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1118 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1119 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1120 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1121 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1122 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1123 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1124
1125 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1126 removed.
1127
1128 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
1129 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
1130 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1131 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1132
1133 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1134 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1135 default.
1136
1137 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1138 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1139 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
1140 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1141 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
1142
1143 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1144 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1145 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1146 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1147
1148 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1149 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1150 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1151 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1152
1153 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1154 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
1155
1156 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1157 exported by accident.
1158
1159 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1160 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1161 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1162
1163 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1164 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1165 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1166 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1167
1168 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1169
1170 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1171
1172 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1173 free instead.
1174
1175 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1176 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1177
1178 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1179 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1180
1181 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1182 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1183 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1184 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1185 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1186 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1187 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1188 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1189
1190 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1191 synced with the kernel:
1192
1193 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1194 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1195
1196 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1197 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1198 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1199
1200 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1201 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1202
1203 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1204
1205 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1206 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1207 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1208
1209 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
1210
1211 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1212 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
1213
1214 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1215 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1216 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1217 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
1218 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
1219
1220 Security related changes:
1221
1222 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
1223 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1224
1225 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1226 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1227
1228 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1229 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1230 (CVE-2010-3192).
1231
1232 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1233 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
1234
1235 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1236
1237 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1238 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1239 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1240 fields
1241 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1242 (CVE-2010-3192)
1243 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1244 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1245 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1246 ld.bfd is available
1247 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1248 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1249 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1250 x86 and other generic code
1251 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1252 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1253 incorrect
1254 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1255 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1256 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1257 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1258 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1259 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1260 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1261 resolver
1262 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1263 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1264 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1265 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1266 chillu characters
1267 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1268 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1269 receiving data
1270 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1271 whitespace
1272 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1273 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1274 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1275 for Peru
1276 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1277 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1278 failures consistently
1279 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1280 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1281 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1282 frame-pointer on i386
1283 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1284 register
1285 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1286 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1287 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1288 generic c code is used
1289 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1290 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1291 around 4000
1292 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1293 (CVE-2017-12133)
1294 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1295 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1296 with -lieee
1297 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1298 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1299 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1300 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1301 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1302 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1303 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1304 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1305 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1306 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1307 remove()
1308 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1309 checked for errors.
1310 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1311 new posix_spawn implementation
1312 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1313 leads to lower CPU frequency
1314 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1315 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1316 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1317 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1318 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1319 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1320 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1321 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1322 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1323 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1324 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1325 not support gethostbyname4_r
1326 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1327 switching
1328 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1329 arenas
1330 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1331 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1332 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1333 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1334 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1335 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1336 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1337 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1338 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1339 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1340 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1341 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1342 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1343 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1344 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1345 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1346 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1347 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1348 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1349 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1350 retry value
1351 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1352 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1353 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1354 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1355 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1356 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1357 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1358 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1359 [21537] libc:
1360 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1361 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1362 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1363 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1364 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1365 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1366 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1367 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1368 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1369 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1370 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1371 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1372 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1373 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1374 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1375 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1376 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1377 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1378 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1379 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1380 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1381 issue on x86-64
1382 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1383 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1384 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1385 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1386 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1387 construction
1388 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1389 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1390 between_2_3
1391 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1392 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1393 conditions
1394 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1395 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1396 Hindi Locale
1397 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1398 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1399 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1400 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1401 locale
1402 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1403 leading to relocation crash
1404 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1405 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1406 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1407 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1408 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1409 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1410 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1411 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1412 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1413 locale
1414 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1415 locale
1416 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1417 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1418 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1419 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1420 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1421 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1422 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1423 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1424 strings
1425 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1426 protector=all
1427 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1428 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1429 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1430 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1431 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1432 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1433 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1434 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1435 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1436 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1437 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1438 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1439 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1440 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1441 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1442 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1443 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1444 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1445 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1446 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1447 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1448 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1449 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1450 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1451 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1452 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1453 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1454 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1455 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1456 with unicode 9.0
1457 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1458 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1459 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1460 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1461 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
1462
1463 \f
1464 Version 2.25
1465
1466 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1467 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1468 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1469 Library.
1470
1471 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1472 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1473 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
1474 the GNU C Library.
1475
1476 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1477 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1478 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1479 the GNU C Library.
1480
1481 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1482 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1483 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1484 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1485 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1486 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1487 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1488 will not.
1489
1490 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1491 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1492 many years.
1493
1494 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1495 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1496 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1497
1498 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1499 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1500 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1501 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1502 problem.
1503
1504 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
1505 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1506 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
1507
1508 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1509 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
1510 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1511 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1512 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1513 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1514 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1515 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1516 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1517 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1518 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1519 WINT_WIDTH.
1520
1521 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1522
1523 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1524
1525 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1526 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1527 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
1528
1529 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1530 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1531
1532 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1533 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1534
1535 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1536
1537 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
1538
1539 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1540 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
1541
1542 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1543
1544 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
1545 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
1546
1547 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1548 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1549
1550 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1551 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1552 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1553
1554 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1555 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1556 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1557 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1558 effects of the memory clear).
1559
1560 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1561 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1562 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1563 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1564
1565 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1566 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1567 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1568 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1569 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1570 if they are compiled or used with those options.
1571
1572 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1573 have been added.
1574
1575 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1576 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1577 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1578 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1579 as large as several megabytes.
1580
1581 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1582 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1583 been removed.
1584
1585 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1586 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1587 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1588 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1589 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1590 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1591 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1592
1593 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1594 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1595 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1596 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1597
1598 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
1599 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1600 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1601 Internet.
1602
1603 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1604 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1605 They were already unimplemented.
1606
1607 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1608 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1609 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1610 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1611
1612 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1613 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1614 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1615 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1616 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1617
1618 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1619 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1620 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1621 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1622 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1623
1624 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1625 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1626 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1627 did not reflect that.
1628
1629 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1630 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1631 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1632 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1633 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1634 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1635 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1636 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1637
1638 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1639 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1640 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1641 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1642
1643 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1644 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1645 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1646 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1647
1648 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1649 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1650 guarantees.
1651
1652 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1653 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1654 make state changes.
1655
1656 Security related changes:
1657
1658 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
1659 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1660 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1661 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
1662 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
1663
1664 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1665 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1666 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1667 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1668 (CVE-2015-5180)
1669
1670 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1671
1672 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1673 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1674 protector-all
1675 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1676 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1677 before it started waiting
1678 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1679 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1680 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1681 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1682 wrong type
1683 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1684 library linked with pthread
1685 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1686 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1687 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1688 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1689 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1690 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1691 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1692 when it shouldnt
1693 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1694 not
1695 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1696 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1697 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1698 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1699 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1700 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1701 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1702 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1703 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1704 termination
1705 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1706 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1707 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1708 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1709 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1710 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1711 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1712 causes a segmentation fault
1713 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1714 linking
1715 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1716 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1717 uninitialized GOT
1718 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1719 versions
1720 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1721 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1722 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1723 is always true.
1724 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1725 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1726 modes
1727 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1728 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1729 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1730 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1731 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1732 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1733 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1734 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1735 libpthread.a
1736 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1737 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1738 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1739 _res_hconf
1740 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1741 information.
1742 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1743 penalty
1744 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1745 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1746 cause transition penalty
1747 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1748 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1749 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1750 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1751 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1752 mcount.oS)
1753 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1754 Checking
1755 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1756 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1757 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1758 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1759 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1760 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1761 multi-arch
1762 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1763 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1764 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1765 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1766 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1767 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1768 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1769 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1770 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1771 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1772 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1773 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1774 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1775 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1776 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1777 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1778 glibc
1779 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1780 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1781 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1782 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1783 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1784 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1785 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1786 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1787 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1788 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1789 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1790 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1791 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1792 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1793 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1794 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1795 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1796 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1797 RES_USE_INET6
1798 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1799 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1800 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1801 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1802 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1803 wrong condition
1804 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1805 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1806 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1807 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1808 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1809 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1810 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1811 clang
1812 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1813 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1814 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1815 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1816 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1817 \f
1818 Version 2.24
1819
1820 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1821 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1822 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1823 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1824 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1825 architectures.
1826
1827 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1828 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1829 been included in previous releases.
1830
1831 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1832 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1833
1834 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1835 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1836 instead of “union wait”.
1837
1838 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1839 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1840 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1841 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1842 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1843 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1844 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1845
1846 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1847 API.
1848
1849 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1850 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1851 drop it.
1852
1853 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1854 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1855 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1856 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1857 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1858 extensions.
1859
1860 Security related changes:
1861
1862 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1863 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1864 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1865
1866 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1867 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1868 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1869 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
1870
1871 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1872 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1873 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1874
1875 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1876 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1877 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1878
1879 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1880 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1881 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1882 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1883
1884 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1885
1886 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1887 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1888 of MS-DOS.
1889 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1890 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1891 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1892 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1893 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1894 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1895 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1896 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1897 CLDR data
1898 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1899 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1900 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1901 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1902 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1903 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1904 romanisation
1905 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1906 and +/-
1907 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1908 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1909 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1910 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1911 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1912 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1913 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1914 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1915 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1916 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1917 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1918 all locales
1919 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1920 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1921 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1922 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1923 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1924 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1925 execute
1926 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1927 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1928 -Wsystem-headers
1929 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1930 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1931 Romanian locale data
1932 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1933 symbol
1934 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1935 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1936 language
1937 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1938 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1939 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1940 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1941 machine
1942 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1943 description
1944 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1945 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1946 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1947 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1948 when using RTLD_NEXT
1949 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1950 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1951 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1952 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1953 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1954 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1955 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1956 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1957 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1958 Excavator core
1959 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1960 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1961 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1962 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1963 double range
1964 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1965 part zero incorrect
1966 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1967 equality tests
1968 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1969 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1970 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1971 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1972 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1973 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1974 glibc-2.22
1975 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1976 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1977 'tst-numeric.c'
1978 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1979 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1980 low part
1981 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1982 result
1983 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1984 unaligned stack
1985 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1986 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1987 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1988 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1989 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1990 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1991 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1992 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1993 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1994 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1995 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1996 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1997 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1998 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1999 modes
2000 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2001 server addresses
2002 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2003 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2004 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2005 response to getaddrinfo
2006 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2007 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2008 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2009 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2010 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2011 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2012 sometimes incorrect
2013 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2014 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2015 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2016 record types
2017 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2018 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2019 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2020 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2021 (CVE-2016-3075)
2022 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2023 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2024 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2025 resolving symbols
2026 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2027 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2028 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2029 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2030 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2031 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2032 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2033 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2034 gethosts
2035 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2036 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2037 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2038 (CVE-2016-3706)
2039 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2040 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2041 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2042 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2043 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2044 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2045 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2046 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2047 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2048 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2049 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2050 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2051 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2052 executable
2053 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2054 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2055 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2056 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2057 XPG3
2058 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2059 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2060 (CVE-2016-4429)
2061 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2062 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2063 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2064 AS not supporting AVX512
2065 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2066 sNaN argument
2067 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2068 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2069 argument
2070 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2071 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2072 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2073 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2074 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2075 eax=0x80000001
2076 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2077 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2078 subnormals
2079 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2080 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2081 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2082 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2083 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2084 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2085 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2086 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2087 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2088 input
2089 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2090 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2091 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2092 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2093 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2094 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2095 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2096 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2097 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2098 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2099 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2100 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2101 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2102 double rounding
2103 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2104 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2105 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2106 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2107 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2108 (Only arm/linux)
2109 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2110 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2111 fallbacks
2112 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2113 "invalid" exceptions
2114 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2115 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2116 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2117 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2118 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2119 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2120 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2121 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2122 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
2123 \f
2124 Version 2.23
2125
2126 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2127 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2128 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2129 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2130 89, 16061, and 18568.
2131
2132 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2133 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2134 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2135 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2136 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2137 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2138 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2139
2140 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2141 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2142 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2143
2144 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2145 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2146 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2147 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2148 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2149 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2150 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2151
2152 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2153 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2154 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2155 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2156 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
2157 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
2158 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2159 Ericsson.)
2160
2161 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2162 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2163 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2164 independent of the GNU C Library.
2165
2166 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2167 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
2168
2169 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2170 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2171 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2172 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2173 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2174 Linux kernel.
2175
2176 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2177 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
2178
2179 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2180 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2181 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2182 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2183 defining their own copy.
2184
2185 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2186 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2187 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2188
2189 Security related changes:
2190
2191 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2192 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2193
2194 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2195 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2196 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2197 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2198 (CVE-2015-8777)
2199
2200 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2201 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2202
2203 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2204 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2205
2206 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2207 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
2208 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
2209
2210 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2211 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2212 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2213 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2214 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2215 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2216 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2217 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2218 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2219 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2220 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2221 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2222 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2223
2224 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2225
2226 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2227 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2228 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2229 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2230 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2231 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2232 use `mkstemp'
2233 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2234 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2235 overflow/underflow errors
2236 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2237 overflow/underflow
2238 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2239 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2240 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2241 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2242 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2243 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2244 are not contiguous
2245 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2246 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2247 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2248 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2249 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2250 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2251 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2252 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2253 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2254 all exceptions
2255 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2256 arguments
2257 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2258 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2259 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2260 should include
2261 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2262 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2263 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2264 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2265 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2266 GNU/Linux
2267 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2268 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2269 arguments
2270 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2271 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2272 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2273 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2274 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2275 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2276 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2277 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2278 rounding results
2279 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2280 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2281 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2282 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2283 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2284 fails
2285 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2286 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2287 block boundary
2288 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2289 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2290 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2291 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2292 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2293 4.7?
2294 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2295 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2296 (related to lock elision)
2297 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2298 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2299 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2300 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2301 (CVE-2015-8779)
2302 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2303 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2304 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2305 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2306 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2307 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2308 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2309 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2310 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2311 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2312 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2313 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2314 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2315 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2316 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2317 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2318 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2319 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2320 contains a vector instruction exception.
2321 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2322 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2323 locales
2324 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2325 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2326 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2327 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2328 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2329 missing break ?
2330 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2331 32bit processes
2332 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2333 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2334 infinity
2335 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2336 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2337 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2338 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2339 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2340 be forced unloaded
2341 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2342 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2343 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2344 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2345 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2346 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2347 statically too large
2348 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2349 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2350 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2351 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2352 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2353 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2354 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2355 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2356 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2357 FUTEX_SHARED
2358 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2359 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2360 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2361 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2362 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2363 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2364 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2365 opendir()
2366 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2367 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2368 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2369 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2370 signgam
2371 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2372 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2373 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2374 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2375 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2376 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2377 dependencies
2378 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2379 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2380 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2381 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2382 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2383 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2384 (CVE-2015-8776)
2385 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2386 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2387 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2388 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2389 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2390 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2391 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2392 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2393 contention
2394 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2395 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2396 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2397 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2398 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2399 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2400 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2401 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2402 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2403 rounding modes
2404 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2405 ILP32
2406 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2407 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2408 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2409 threshold
2410 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2411 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2412 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2413 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2414 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2415 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2416 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2417 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2418 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2419 pthread_setaffinity_np
2420 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2421 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2422 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2423 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2424 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2425 prelink
2426 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2427 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2428 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2429 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2430 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2431 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2432 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2433 bits/mathcalls.h
2434 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2435 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2436 for C99-based standards
2437 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2438 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2439 math-only
2440 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2441 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2442 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2443 disabled
2444 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2445 "inexact" exceptions
2446 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2447 arguments
2448 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2449 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2450 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2451 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2452 rules
2453 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2454 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2455 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2456 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2457 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2458 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2459 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2460 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2461 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2462 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2463 from 32bit
2464 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2465 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2466 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2467 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2468 subnormals
2469 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2470 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2471 error on 32-bit architectures
2472 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2473 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2474 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2475 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2476 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2477 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2478 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2479 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2480 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2481 -Os
2482 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2483 CPU's.
2484 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2485 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2486 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2487 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2488 architectures
2489 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
2490 \f
2491 Version 2.22
2492
2493 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2494
2495 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
2496 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2497 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2498 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2499 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2500 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2501 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2502 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2503 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2504 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2505 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2506 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2507 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2508 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2509 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2510 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2511 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2512 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
2513 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2514 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2515
2516 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2517 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2518
2519 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2520 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2521 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2522 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2523 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2524 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
2525
2526 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2527 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2528 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2529 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2530 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2531
2532 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2533 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2534 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2535
2536 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2537 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2538 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2539 17998.
2540
2541 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2542 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2543 condition in some applications.
2544
2545 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
2546 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2547 pow, powf.
2548 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2549 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
2550 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2551 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
2552 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
2553
2554 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2555 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2556 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2557 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
2558
2559 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2560 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2561 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
2562
2563 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2564 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2565
2566 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2567 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2568 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2569
2570 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2571 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2572 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
2573 \f
2574 Version 2.21
2575
2576 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2577
2578 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
2579 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2580 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2581 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2582 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2583 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2584 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2585 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2586 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2587 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2588 17892.
2589
2590 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2591 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2592 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2593 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2594 intended.
2595
2596 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2597 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2598 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2599 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2600 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2601 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
2602
2603 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2604
2605 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2606 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
2607 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
2608
2609 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2610 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2611 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2612 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2613 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2614 effects being visible outside transactions.
2615
2616 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2617 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2618
2619 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2620
2621 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2622 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
2623 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
2624 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2625 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
2626
2627 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2628 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2629
2630 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2631 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2632 format.
2633
2634 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2635 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2636 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2637
2638 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2639 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2640
2641 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
2642
2643 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2644 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2645 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2646 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
2647
2648 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2649 with newer versions of bison.
2650
2651 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2652 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2653 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2654 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2655 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2656 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2657 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2658 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2659 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2660 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2661 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2662 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2663 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2664
2665 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2666 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2667 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2668 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2669 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
2670 \f
2671 Version 2.20
2672
2673 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2674
2675 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2676 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2677 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2678 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2679 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2680 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2681 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2682 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2683 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2684 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2685 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2686 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2687 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2688 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2689 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
2690
2691 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2692 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2693 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2694 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2695 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
2696 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
2697 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2698 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2699 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2700 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2701
2702 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2703 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2704 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2705 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2706 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
2707
2708 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2709
2710 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2711 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2712
2713 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2714 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2715 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2716 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2717 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2718 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2719
2720 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2721 from ports.
2722
2723 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2724 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2725 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2726 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2727 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2728 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2729 test macros defined.
2730
2731 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2732
2733 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2734 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2735 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2736 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2737 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2738 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2739 is not built.
2740
2741 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2742 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2743 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2744 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2745 invocation.
2746
2747 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2748 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2749 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
2750
2751 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2752 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2753 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2754 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
2755
2756 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2757 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2758 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2759 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2760 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2761 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2762 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2763 additional checks.
2764
2765 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2766 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2767 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2768 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2769 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2770 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2771 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2772 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2773 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
2774
2775 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2776 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2777 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2778 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2779 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
2780 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
2781
2782 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2783 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2784 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2785 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
2786 \f
2787 Version 2.19
2788
2789 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2790
2791 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2792 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2793 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2794 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2795 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2796 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2797 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2798 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2799 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2800 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
2801 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2802 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2803 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2804 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2805 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
2806 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2807 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2808 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
2809
2810 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2811 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2812
2813 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2814 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2815 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
2816 extension which uses __block.
2817
2818 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2819 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2820 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2821 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2822 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2823
2824 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2825 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2826 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2827 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2828 if malloc fails.
2829
2830 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2831 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2832 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2833 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2834 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
2835
2836 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2837 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2838 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2839
2840 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2841 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2842 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2843 #15856, #15857).
2844
2845 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2846 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2847
2848 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
2849 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
2850
2851 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2852
2853 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2854 supported locales.
2855
2856 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
2857
2858 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2859
2860 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2861 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2862 for which the C library was built.
2863
2864 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2865 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2866 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2867 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2868 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2869 in the following circumstances:
2870
2871 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2872
2873 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2874 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2875
2876 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2877 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2878
2879 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2880 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
2881
2882 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2883
2884 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2885 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2886
2887 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
2888
2889 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
2890
2891 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
2892
2893 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2894 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2895 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2896 disable some of those declarations.
2897
2898 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
2899 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2900 that did nothing) has also been removed.
2901
2902 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2903 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
2904
2905 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2906 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2907 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2908 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2909 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2910 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2911 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2912 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2913 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2914 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2915 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2916 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2917 require recompilation.
2918 \f
2919 Version 2.18
2920
2921 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2922
2923 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
2924 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2925 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
2926 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2927 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2928 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2929 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2930 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2931 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2932 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2933 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2934 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2935 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2936 15755, 15759.
2937
2938 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2939 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2940 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2941 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2942 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2943 understands and accepts the risks.
2944
2945 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2946 #15078).
2947
2948 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2949 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2950
2951 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2952 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2953 destructor calls to glibc.
2954
2955 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2956 output.
2957
2958 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2959 non-x86 architectures.
2960
2961 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2962
2963 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2964
2965 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2966 Richard Henderson.
2967
2968 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2969
2970 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2971 Richard Henderson.
2972
2973 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2974 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2975
2976 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2977
2978 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2979 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2980
2981 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2982 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2983
2984 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2985 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2986 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2987
2988 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2989 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2990 attributes of a process.
2991
2992 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2993 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2994 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2995 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2996 mutexes.
2997
2998 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2999 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3000
3001 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3002 \f
3003 Version 2.17
3004
3005 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3006
3007 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
3008 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3009 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3010 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3011 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3012 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3013 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3014 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3015 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3016 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3017 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3018 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3019 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3020 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3021 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
3022
3023 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3024
3025 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3026 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
3027
3028 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3029 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3030
3031 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3032
3033 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3034 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3035 zEnterprise z196.
3036 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3037
3038 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3039 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3040 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3041
3042 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3043 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3044
3045 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3046 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3047
3048 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3049 can be used with is 2.6.16.
3050
3051 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3052 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3053
3054 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3055 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
3056 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3057 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3058
3059 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3060 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3061
3062 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
3063 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
3064 default.
3065
3066 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3067 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3068 information in --help and --version output.
3069
3070 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3071 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3072 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3073
3074 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3075 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3076 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3077 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3078 when the mode is enabled.
3079
3080 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3081 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3082 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3083 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3084 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3085 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3086 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
3087
3088 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3089 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
3090 \f
3091 Version 2.16
3092
3093 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3094
3095 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3096 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3097 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3098 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3099 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3100 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3101 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3102 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3103 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3104 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3105 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3106 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3107 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3108 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3109 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3110 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3111 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3112 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3113 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3114 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3115 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3116 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3117 14277, 14278.
3118
3119 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3120 configuring glibc with:
3121 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3122 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3123 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3124
3125 * ISO C11 support:
3126
3127 + define static_assert
3128
3129 + do not declare gets
3130
3131 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3132
3133 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3134 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3135 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3136 implementation.
3137
3138 + timespec_get added
3139
3140 + uchar.h support added
3141
3142 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3143
3144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3145
3146 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
3147
3148 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
3149
3150 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3152
3153 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3154 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3155
3156 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3157 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3158 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3159 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3160 existing applications.
3161
3162 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
3163 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3164 before 2.6.
3165
3166 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3167 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3168 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3169
3170 * New locales: mag_IN
3171
3172 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3173 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3174 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3175 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3176 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
3177
3178 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3179
3180 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3181 and Will Schmidt.
3182
3183 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3184
3185 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3186 without a previously built glibc.
3187
3188 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3189 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3190
3191 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3192 now supported for ARM processors.
3193
3194 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3195 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3196 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3197
3198 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
3199
3200 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3201 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3202 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3203 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
3204
3205 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3206 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3207 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3208 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3209
3210 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3211 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3212 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3213 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3214 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3215
3216 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3217 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3218 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3219 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
3220 \f
3221 Version 2.15
3222
3223 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3224
3225 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3226 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3227 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3228 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3229 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3230 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3231 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
3232
3233 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3234 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3235
3236 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3237 and support for initgroups lookups.
3238 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3239
3240 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3241 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3242
3243 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3244 Contributed by HJ Lu.
3245
3246 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3247 on x86-32 and x86-64.
3248 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3249
3250 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
3251 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3252
3253 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3254 for x86-64 and x86-32.
3255 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3256
3257 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3258 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3259
3260 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3262
3263 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3265
3266 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3268
3269 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3270 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3271
3272 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3273 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3274
3275 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
3276
3277 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3278 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3279
3280 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3281 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
3282
3283 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
3284 \f
3285 Version 2.14
3286
3287 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3288
3289 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
3290 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3291 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
3292 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
3293 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3294 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3295 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
3296 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3297 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
3298 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
3299
3300 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3301 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3302 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
3303 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
3304
3305 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
3306 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3307 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
3308 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3309
3310 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
3311 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
3312
3313 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
3314 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
3315
3316 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
3317
3318 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3320
3321 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3322 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3323 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3324 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
3325 \f
3326 Version 2.13
3327
3328 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3329
3330 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3331 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3332 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3333 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3334 12378, 12394, 12397
3335
3336 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
3337
3338 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
3339
3340 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3341 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
3342 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3343 \f
3344 Version 2.12
3345
3346 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3347
3348 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3349 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3350 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3351 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
3352 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3353 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3354 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
3355 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
3356
3357 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
3358
3359 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3360
3361 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3362
3363 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3364 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3366
3367 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3368 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3369 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3370 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3372
3373 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
3374 \f
3375 Version 2.11
3376
3377 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3378
3379 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3380 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3381 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3382 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3383 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3384 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3385
3386 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3387 mkostemps64
3388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3389
3390 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
3391 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3392
3393 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3394 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3395
3396 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3397
3398 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
3399 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
3400 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
3401 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3402
3403 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
3404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3405
3406 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3407 strstr, strcasestr.
3408 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3409
3410 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3411 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3412
3413 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3414 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3415
3416 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3417 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3418
3419 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3420 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3421 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3422 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3423 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3424 necessity is every process again.
3425 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3426
3427 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3428 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3429
3430 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3431 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3432
3433 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3434 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3435 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3436
3437 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
3438 \f
3439 Version 2.10
3440
3441 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3442
3443 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3444 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3445 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3446 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3447 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3448
3449 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
3450 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3451
3452 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
3453 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3454
3455 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
3456 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
3457
3458 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3459 now in POSIX.
3460
3461 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
3462 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3463
3464 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3466
3467 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3468 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3469
3470 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3471 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3472
3473 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3474 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3475 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3476
3477 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
3478
3479 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
3480 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3481
3482 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3483 and extend existing format specifiers.
3484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3485
3486 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3488
3489 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3490 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3491 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3492 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3493 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3495 \f
3496 Version 2.9
3497
3498 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3499
3500 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3501 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3502 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3503 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3504 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3505
3506 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
3507 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3508
3509 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3510 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
3511
3512 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3514
3515 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3516 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3518
3519 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3520 Implemented by Eric Blake.
3521
3522 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
3523
3524 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
3525 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3526
3527 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3528 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3529 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3531
3532 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3533 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3534
3535 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3536 Sinhala)
3537 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3538
3539 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
3540 \f
3541 Version 2.8
3542
3543 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3544
3545 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3546 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3547 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3548 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3549 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3550 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3551 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3552
3553 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
3554
3555 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
3556
3557 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3558 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3559
3560 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3561
3562 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3564
3565 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3566 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3567
3568 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3569 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3570 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3571
3572 * Faster memset for x86-64.
3573 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3574
3575 * Faster memcpy on x86.
3576 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3577
3578 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3580
3581 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
3582 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3583 \f
3584 Version 2.7
3585
3586 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3587
3588 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3589 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3590 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3591 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3592 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3593
3594 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3595 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3596
3597 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3598
3599 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3600 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3601 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3602
3603 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3604 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3605
3606 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
3607 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3608
3609 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3610
3611 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3612 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3613
3614 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3615 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3616
3617 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3618 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3619
3620 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3621
3622 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3623 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3624
3625 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3626 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3627 yo_NG.
3628
3629 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3630 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3631 \f
3632 Version 2.6
3633
3634 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3635
3636 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3637 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3638 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3639 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3640 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3641 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3642 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3643 4702, 4858
3644
3645 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
3646
3647 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3648
3649 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3650 \f
3651 Version 2.5
3652
3653 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3654
3655 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3656 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3657 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3658 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3659 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3660 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3661 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3662 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3663 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3664
3665 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
3666 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3667 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3668
3669 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3671
3672 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
3673
3674 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
3675
3676 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3677 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3678 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
3679 site might have problems with the default behavior.
3680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3681
3682 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
3683 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3684 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3686
3687 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3688 Ulrich Drepper.
3689
3690 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3691
3692 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3693 Ulrich Drepper.
3694
3695 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3696
3697 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3698 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
3699 \f
3700 Version 2.4
3701
3702 * More overflow detection functions.
3703
3704 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3705 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
3706
3707 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3708 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3709 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3710 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3711 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3712 by Masahide Washizawa.
3713
3714 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3715 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3716
3717 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3718 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3719 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3720 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
3721
3722 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3723 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3724
3725 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3726
3727 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3728 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3729 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3730
3731 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3732 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3733
3734 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3735 for compatibility with some other systems.
3736
3737 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
3738 \f
3739 Version 2.3.6
3740
3741 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3742
3743 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3744 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3745 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3746 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3747 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3748 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3749
3750 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3751
3752 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3753
3754 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
3755 \f
3756 Version 2.3.5
3757
3758 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3759
3760 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3761 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3762 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3763 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3764
3765 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3766 \f
3767 Version 2.3.4
3768
3769 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3770 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3771
3772 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3773 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3775
3776 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3777 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3778
3779 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
3780 efficiently.
3781 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3782
3783 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3784 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3785 handling data.
3786
3787 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3788 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
3789 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3790
3791 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
3792 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3793
3794 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3795 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3796 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3797 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3798
3799 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3800 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3801 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
3802 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3803
3804 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3805 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3806 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3807 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3808 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
3809 \f
3810 Version 2.3.3
3811
3812 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3813 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3814
3815 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3816 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
3817
3818 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
3819 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3820
3821 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3822 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3823
3824 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3825 by Roland McGrath.
3826
3827 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
3828 and Ulrich Drepper.
3829
3830 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3831 RFC 3484.
3832 \f
3833 Version 2.3.2
3834
3835 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3836 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3837 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3838 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3839 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3840 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3841 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3842 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3843 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3844
3845 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3846 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3847 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3848
3849 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
3850
3851 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3852 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
3853
3854 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3855 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3856
3857 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
3858
3859 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3860 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
3861
3862 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3863 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3864 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3865 of weak definition in ld.so.
3866
3867 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3868 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3869
3870 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3871 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
3872 \f
3873 Version 2.3
3874
3875 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3876 charsets.
3877
3878 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3879 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
3880
3881 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
3882 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
3883
3884 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3885 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
3886
3887 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
3888 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3889 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3890
3891 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3892 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3893
3894 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3895 implementation of regex.
3896
3897 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3898 Unicode 3.2.
3899
3900 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3901 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
3902
3903 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3904 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3905 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
3906
3907 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
3908 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
3909
3910 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3911 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3912 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
3913
3914 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3915 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3916
3917 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3918 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3919 and Ulrich Drepper.
3920
3921 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3922 \f
3923 Version 2.2.6
3924
3925 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3926 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3927
3928 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3929 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
3930 \f
3931 Version 2.2.5
3932
3933 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3934 128-bit long double format.
3935
3936 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3937 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
3938
3939 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
3940
3941 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3942
3943 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3944 as well.
3945
3946 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3947 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3948
3949 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3950 \f
3951 Version 2.2.4
3952
3953 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3954 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3955
3956 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3957 support Unicode 3.1.
3958
3959 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3960 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3961
3962 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3963
3964 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3965 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3966 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3967
3968 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3969 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3970
3971 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3972 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3973
3974 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3975 \f
3976 Version 2.2.3
3977
3978 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3979 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3980 in float, double, and long double format.
3981
3982 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3983 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3984 128-bit long double format.
3985
3986 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3987 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3988 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3989 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3990
3991 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3992 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3993 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3994
3995 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3996 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3997
3998 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3999 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
4000
4001 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4002 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4003 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
4004
4005 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4006 family of functions for Linux/S390.
4007
4008 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4009 of functions for Linux/x86.
4010
4011 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
4012 \f
4013 Version 2.2.2
4014
4015 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
4016 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4017 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4018 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4019 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4020 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4021 other headers.
4022
4023 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4024 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4025
4026 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4027 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4028 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4029 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4030
4031 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4032 locales. While
4033
4034 locale -a
4035
4036 only lists the names of the supported locales
4037
4038 locale -a --verbose
4039
4040 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4041 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4042 \f
4043 Version 2.2.1
4044
4045 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4046 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4047 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4048 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4049 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4050
4051 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4052
4053 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4054
4055 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
4056
4057 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4058 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4059 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
4060
4061 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4062 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4063
4064 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4065 changed from the default "C" locale.
4066
4067 * The usual bug fixes.
4068 \f
4069 Version 2.2
4070
4071 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4072 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4073 is in progress.
4074
4075 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4076
4077 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
4078
4079 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4080 obviously requires a database library being available.
4081
4082 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4083
4084 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
4085
4086 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4087 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4088
4089 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4090
4091 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4092 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4093 and Mark Kettenis.
4094
4095 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4096 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4097 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
4098
4099 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
4100 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4101
4102 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4103 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4104 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4105
4106 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4107 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4108 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4109 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4110
4111 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4112 structures for the wide character tables.
4113
4114 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4115
4116 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
4117
4118 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4119
4120 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4121 and Yutaka Niibe.
4122
4123 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4124
4125 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4126
4127 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4128
4129 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4130
4131 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4132
4133 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4134 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4135 implemented for Linux.
4136
4137 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4138 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4139 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4140 versions.
4141
4142 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4143 Masahide Washizawa.
4144
4145 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
4146 \f
4147 Version 2.1.3
4148
4149 * bug fixes
4150
4151 \f
4152 Version 2.1.2
4153
4154 * bug fixes
4155
4156 \f
4157 Version 2.1.1
4158
4159 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4160
4161 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4162
4163 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
4164
4165 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4166
4167 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
4168
4169 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
4170
4171 * Update timezone data files.
4172
4173 * lots of charmaps corrections
4174
4175 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
4176
4177 \f
4178 Version 2.1
4179
4180 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4181 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4182 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4183 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4184 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4185 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4186
4187 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
4188 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4189
4190 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
4191 symbol level.
4192
4193 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4194 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
4195
4196 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
4197
4198 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
4199 numbers.
4200
4201 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
4202
4203 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4204 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
4205
4206 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4207 library.
4208
4209 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
4210 functions from ISO C 9X.
4211
4212 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4213 real valued functions.
4214
4215 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
4216
4217 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4218
4219 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
4220
4221 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
4222
4223 * Optimized string functions have been added.
4224
4225 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
4226
4227 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4228
4229 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4230 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4231
4232 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4233 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4234
4235 user system wall
4236
4237 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
4238
4239 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
4240
4241 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
4242
4243 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4244
4245 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4246
4247 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
4248
4249 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4250 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
4251 horribly slow.
4252
4253 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4254 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
4255
4256 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
4257
4258 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
4259
4260 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4261 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4262
4263 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
4264
4265 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4266 Bambrough.
4267
4268 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4269 latest draft standards.
4270
4271 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4272
4273 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4274 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4275 addseverity NEW: Unix98
4276 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
4277 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4278 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4279 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4280 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4281 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4282 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4283 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4284 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4285 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4286 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
4287 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4288 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4289 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
4290 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4291 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4292 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4293 cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4294 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4295 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4296 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4297 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4298 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4299 capget NEW: kernel
4300 capset NEW: kernel
4301 carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4302 cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4303 cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4304 casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4305 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4306 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4307 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4308 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4309 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4310 catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4311 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4312 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4313 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4314 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4315 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4316 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4317 ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4318 ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4319 ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4320 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4321 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4322 ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4323 cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4324 cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4325 cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4326 cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4327 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4328 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4329 clearerr_locked REMOVED
4330 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4331 clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4332 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4333 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4334 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4335 clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4336 clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4337 conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4338 conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4339 conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4340 cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4341 cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4342 cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4343 cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4344 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4345 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4346 creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4347 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4348 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4349 creat64 NEW: LFS
4350 csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4351 csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4352 csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4353 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4354 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4355 csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4356 csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4357 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4358 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4359 ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4360 ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4361 ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4362 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4363 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4364 ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4365 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4366 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
4367 endutxent NEW: Unix98
4368 exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4369 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4370 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4371 exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4372 exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4373 exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4374 fattach NEW: STREAMS
4375 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4376 fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4377 fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4378 fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4379 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4380 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4381 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4382 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4383 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4384 feof_locked REMOVED
4385 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4386 ferror_locked REMOVED
4387 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4388 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4389 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4390 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4391 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4392 fflush_locked REMOVED
4393 ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4394 ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4395 fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4396 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4397 fileno_locked REMOVED
4398 fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4399 fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4400 fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4401 fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4402 fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4403 fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4404 fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4405 fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4406 fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
4407 fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
4408 fopen64 NEW: LFS
4409 fputc_locked REMOVED
4410 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4411 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4412 freopen64 NEW: LFS
4413 fseeko NEW: Unix98
4414 fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4415 fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4416 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4417 fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4418 ftello NEW: Unix98
4419 ftello64 NEW: LFS
4420 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4421 ftw64 NEW: LFS
4422 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4423 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4424 gamma_r REMOVED
4425 gammaf_r REMOVED
4426 gammal_r REMOVED
4427 getchar_locked REMOVED
4428 getdate NEW: Unix98
4429 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4430 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4431 getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4432 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
4433 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
4434 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4435 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4436 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4437 getutxent NEW: Unix98
4438 getutxid NEW: Unix98
4439 getutxline NEW: Unix98
4440 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4441 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4442 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4443 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4444 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4445 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4446 iconv NEW: iconv
4447 iconv_close NEW: iconv
4448 iconv_open NEW: iconv
4449 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4450 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4451 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4452 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4453 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4454 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4455 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4456 isastream NEW: STREAMS
4457 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
4458 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4459 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4460 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4461 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4462 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4463 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4464 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4465 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4466 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
4467 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4468 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4469 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4470 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4471 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4472 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4473 log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4474 log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4475 log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4476 lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4477 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4478 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4479 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4480 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4481 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4482 lseek64 NEW: LFS
4483 makecontext NEW: Unix98
4484 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4485 mmap64 NEW: LFS
4486 moncontrol REMOVED
4487 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4488 nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4489 nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4490 nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4491 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4492 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4493 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4494 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4495 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
4496 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4497 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4498 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
4499 nftw NEW: Unix98
4500 nftw64 NEW: LFS
4501 open64 NEW: LFS
4502 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
4503 pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4504 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4505 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4506 pread NEW: Unix98
4507 pread64 NEW: LFS
4508 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4509 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4510 profil_counter REMOVED
4511 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4512 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4513 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4514 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4515 putc_locked REMOVED
4516 putchar_locked REMOVED
4517 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4518 putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4519 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4520 pututxline NEW: Unix98
4521 pwrite NEW: Unix98
4522 pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4523 readdir64 NEW: LFS
4524 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4525 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4526 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4527 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4528 round NEW: ISO C 9x
4529 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4530 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4531 rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4532 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4533 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4534 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4535 scandir64 NEW: LFS
4536 sendfile NEW: kernel
4537 setcontext NEW: Unix98
4538 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
4539 setutxent NEW: Unix98
4540 sighold NEW: Unix98
4541 sigignore NEW: Unix98
4542 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4543 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4544 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4545 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4546 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4547 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4548 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4549 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4550 statfs64 NEW: LFS
4551 statvfs NEW: Unix98
4552 statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4553 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
4554 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4555 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4556 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
4557 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
4558 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4559 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4560 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4561 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4562 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4563 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4564 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4565 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4566 tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4567 trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4568 truncate64 NEW: LFS
4569 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4570 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4571 umount2 NEW: kernel
4572 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4573 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
4574 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
4575 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
4576 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
4577 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
4578 waitid NEW: Unix98
4579 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4580 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4581 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4582 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4583 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4584 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4585 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4586 wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4587 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4588 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4589 write_profiling REMOVED
4590 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4591 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4592 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4593 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4594 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4595 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4596 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4597 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4598 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4599 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4600 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4601 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4602 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
4603 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
4604 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4605 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
4606 \f
4607 Version 2.0.6
4608
4609 * more bug fixes
4610
4611 \f
4612 Version 2.0.5
4613
4614 * more bug fixes
4615
4616 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4617
4618 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4619
4620 * rewrite of cbrt function
4621
4622 * update of timezone data
4623 \f
4624 Version 2.0.4
4625
4626 * more bug fixes
4627 \f
4628 Version 2.0.3
4629
4630 * more bug fixes
4631 \f
4632 Version 2.0.2
4633
4634 * more bug fixes
4635
4636 * add atoll function
4637
4638 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
4639
4640 * fix math functions
4641 \f
4642 Version 2.0.1
4643
4644 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4645
4646 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
4647
4648 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4649 the ELF dynamic loader.
4650
4651 * support for parallel builds is improved
4652 \f
4653 Version 2.0
4654
4655 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4656 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4657 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4658
4659 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4660 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4661 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4662 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
4663 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4664 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
4665 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4666 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4667 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
4668 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4669 files in the ELF format.
4670
4671 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4672 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4673
4674 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
4675 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4676 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4677 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4678 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4679 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4680 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4681 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
4682 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4683 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4684 about dynamically linked binaries.
4685
4686 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4687 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
4688 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4689 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4690 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
4691
4692 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
4693 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4694 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4695 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4696 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4697
4698 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
4699
4700 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4701 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
4702 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4703 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4704 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4705 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4706 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4707 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4708 NSS services available.
4709
4710 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4711 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4712 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4713
4714 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4715 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4716 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4717
4718 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4719 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4720 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4721 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4722
4723 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4724 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4725 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4726
4727 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4728 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4729 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4730
4731 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4732 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4733
4734 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
4735 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
4736 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
4737 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4738
4739 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4740 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4741 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
4742
4743 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
4744 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4745 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4746 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
4747 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4748 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
4749 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
4750 the header file <printf.h> for details.
4751
4752 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4753 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4754 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4755 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4756 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4757 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4758 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
4759
4760 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4761 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4762 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4763 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4764 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4765 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4766
4767 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4768 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4769
4770 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4771 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4772 NSS scheme used in glibc.
4773
4774 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4775
4776 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4777 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4778 their use is discouraged.
4779
4780 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4781 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
4782
4783 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4784 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
4785
4786 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4787 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4788
4789 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4790 see <dirent.h>.
4791
4792 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4793 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
4794 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4795 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4796 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
4797
4798 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4799 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4800 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4801 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
4802
4803 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4804 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4805
4806 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4807 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4808 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4809 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4810 number generator.
4811
4812 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4813 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4814
4815 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4816 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4817
4818 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
4819 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
4820 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4821 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
4822
4823 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4824
4825 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4826 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4827 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4828
4829 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4830 for arithmetic and string handling.
4831
4832 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
4833 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4834 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4835 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4836
4837 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4838 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4839 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4840 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4841 programs already written to use it.)
4842
4843 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4844 constants.
4845
4846 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4847 with 4.4 BSD.
4848
4849 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4850 a given effective group ID.
4851
4852 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4853 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4854 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4855 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4856
4857 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
4858 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
4859 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4860 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4861 doing the same thing.
4862
4863 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4864 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4865
4866 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
4867 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
4868
4869 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4870
4871 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4872 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4873 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
4874 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
4875 `-ldb' to get these functions.
4876
4877 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4878 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
4879
4880 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
4881 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4882 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4883 function.
4884
4885 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4886
4887 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4888 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4889 strings.
4890
4891 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4892 and writing the utmp file.
4893
4894 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4895 Thorsten Kukuk.
4896
4897 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4898 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4899 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4900
4901 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4902 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4903
4904 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4905 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4906 specification.
4907
4908 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4909 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4910 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4911 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4912
4913 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4914 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4915 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4916
4917 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4918 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4919 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4920 expression matcher.
4921
4922 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4923 functionality.
4924
4925 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4926 by Ulrich Drepper.
4927
4928 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4929
4930 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4931 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4932 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
4933 \f
4934 Version 1.09
4935
4936 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4937
4938 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4939 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4940
4941 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4942 want to put themselves in the background.
4943
4944 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4945 run without an operating system.
4946
4947 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4948 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4949
4950 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4951 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4952
4953 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4954
4955 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4956 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4957 have YP (aka NIS).
4958
4959 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4960 conventions.
4961
4962 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4963 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4964 \f
4965 Version 1.08
4966
4967 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4968 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4969 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4970
4971 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4972 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4973
4974 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4975 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4976
4977 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4978
4979 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4980
4981 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4982 compatibility.
4983
4984 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4985 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4986 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4987
4988 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4989
4990 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4991 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4992 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4993
4994 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4995 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4996 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4997 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4998 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4999 on a block).
5000
5001 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5002 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5003 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5004 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5005 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5006 cross-compiler.
5007
5008 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5009 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5010 \f
5011 Version 1.07
5012
5013 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5014 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5015
5016 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5017 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5018 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5019
5020 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5021 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5022 address of the last character written.
5023
5024 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5025 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5026
5027 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5028 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5029
5030 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5031 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5032 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5033 you dereference this pointer.
5034
5035 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5036 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5037
5038 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5039 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5040 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5041 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5042
5043 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5044 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5045 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5046 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5047 \f
5048 Version 1.06
5049
5050 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5051 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5052 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5053 in Emacs or the `info' program.
5054 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
5055
5056 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5057
5058 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5059
5060 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5061 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5062
5063 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5064 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5065
5066 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5067 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5068
5069 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5070 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5071 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5072 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5073 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5074
5075 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5076 to the error code in `errno'.
5077
5078 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5079 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5080 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5081 malloc'd string.
5082
5083 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5084 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5085 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5086
5087 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5088 uniquely-named temporary file.
5089 \f
5090 Version 1.05
5091
5092 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5093 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5094 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5095
5096 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5097 characters.
5098
5099 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5100 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5101
5102 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5103 \f
5104 Version 1.04
5105
5106 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5107 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5108 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5109 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5110
5111 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5112 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5113 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5114
5115 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5116 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5117
5118 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5119 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5120 made itself into a shared library.
5121
5122 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5123 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5124
5125 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5126 with limited length.
5127
5128 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5129
5130 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5131
5132 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5133
5134 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5135 function for traversing a directory tree.
5136
5137 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5138 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5139 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5140 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5141
5142 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5143 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5144
5145 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5146
5147 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5148 things to your strings.
5149
5150 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5151
5152 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5153 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5154 supporting those systems.
5155
5156 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5157 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5158 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5159 configuration files.
5160
5161 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5162 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5163
5164 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
5165 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5166 in <strings.h>.)
5167
5168 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5169 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5170 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5171 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5172 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5173 required storage is not available.
5174
5175 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5176 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
5177
5178 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5179 latest files released from Berkeley.
5180 \f
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5183
5184 Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5185
5186 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5187 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5188 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5189 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5190
5191 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5192 of this document, or of portions of it,
5193 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5194 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5195 \f
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