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