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