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12 * The ISO C23 memset_explicit function has been added.
14 * The ISO C23 memalignment function has been added.
16 * As specified in ISO C23, the assert macro is defined to take variable
17 arguments to support expressions with a comma inside a compound
18 literal initializer not surrounded by parentheses.
20 * For ISO C23, the functions bsearch, memchr, strchr, strpbrk, strrchr,
21 strstr, wcschr, wcspbrk, wcsrchr, wcsstr and wmemchr that return
22 pointers into their input arrays now have definitions as macros that
23 return a pointer to a const-qualified type when the input argument is
24 a pointer to a const-qualified type.
26 * The C23 typedef names long_double_t, _Float32_t, _Float64_t, and (on
27 platforms supporting _Float128) _Float128_t, introduced in TS
28 18661-3:2015, have been added to <math.h>.
30 * On Linux, the mseal function has been added. It allows for sealing
31 memory mappings to prevent further changes during process execution,
32 such as changes to protection permissions, unmapping, relocation to
33 another location, or shrinking the size.
35 * The ISO C23 functions free_sized and free_aligned_sized are now
36 supported in <stdlib.h>.
38 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
40 * Support for dumped heaps has been removed - malloc_set_state() now always
41 returns the error code -1.
43 * The uimaxabs function has been renamed to umaxabs, following a change
44 to the name of that function in ISO C2Y. The old function continues
45 to exist as a compatibility symbol for old binaries.
47 * The fromfp, fromfpx, ufromfp and ufromfpx functions, and the
48 corresponding functions for other floating-point types, now return
49 their result in the same type as their floating-point argument, rather
50 than intmax_t or uintmax_t, in accordance with a change to the
51 definition of these functions in ISO C23. Existing binaries that use
52 the versions returning intmax_t or uintmax_t will continue to work.
54 * The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been removed on all
55 architectures (powerpc, s390x, x86_64).
57 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
59 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
61 Security related changes:
63 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
64 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
66 [The release manager will add the list generated by
67 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
69 The following bugs were resolved with this release:
71 [The release manager will add the list generated by
72 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
78 * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
79 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
80 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
81 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
83 - Power and absolute-value functions: compoundn, pown, powr, rootn,
86 * On Linux, the pthread_gettid_np function has been added.
88 * The ISO C2Y family of unsigned abs functions, i.e. uabs, ulabs,
89 ullabs, and uimaxabs, is now supported.
91 * On Linux, the <termios.h> interface now supports arbitrary baud rates;
92 speed_t is redefined to simply be the baud rate specified as an
93 unsigned int, which matches the kernel interface.
95 * The thread-local cache in malloc (tcache) now supports caching of
96 large blocks. This feature can be enabled by setting the tunable
97 glibc.malloc.tcache_max to a larger value (max 4194304). Tcache is
98 also significantly faster for small sizes.
100 * A new configure option, "--enable-sframe", can be used to enable
101 SFrame support of the GNU C Libraries. SFrame is a new stack trace
102 information format which can be used by backtrace. It requires
103 binutils with a minimum version of 2.45.
105 * Support for lightweight stack guard pages via madvise and the
106 MADV_GUARD_INSTALL flag has been added to pthread_create.
108 * Additional optimized and correctly rounded mathematical functions have
109 been imported from the CORE-MATH project, in particular acospif,
110 asinpif, atanpif, atan2pif, cospif, sinpif, tanpif.
112 * The testsuite has been significantly extended, including coverage of
113 the functionality of the printf and scanf function families in many
116 * The manual has been significantly extended and updated, particularly
117 the threads, terminal, filesystem, resource, and math chapters.
119 * Code has been added to detect the x86-64 Intel Arrow Lake, Panther
120 Lake, Clearwater Forest, and Diamond Rapids microarchitectures.
122 * Regarding S390, support for the new z17 platform has been added.
124 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
126 * The glibc.rtld.execstack tunable now supports a compatibility mode to
127 allow programs that require an executable stack through dynamically
128 loaded shared libraries.
130 * On Linux, the <termio.h> header and the definition of struct termio
131 in <sys/ioctl.h> have been removed. The termio interface has been
132 obsolete since the very first version of POSIX.1 in 1988, replaced
135 * The support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes has been deprecated
136 on all architectures and will be removed in the next release.
138 * On AArch64 Linux targets supporting the Scalable Matrix Extension
139 (SME), setjmp and sigsetjmp will disable the ZA state of SME.
141 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
143 * GCC 12.1 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
145 * GNU Binutils 2.39 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
147 Security related changes:
149 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
150 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
153 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
157 power10: strcmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
158 registers (CVE-2025-5702)
161 power10: strncmp fails to save and restore nonvolatile vector
162 registers (CVE-2025-5745)
165 posix: Fix double-free after allocation failure in regcomp
168 The following bugs were resolved with this release:
170 [5994] stdio: fflush after ungetc on seekable input stream
171 [12724] stdio: fclose violates POSIX 2008 on seekable input streams
172 [25263] dynamic-link: ldd and ld.so fail to resolve $ORIGIN with cross
174 [27880] nptl: Please provide a pthread pid accessor
175 [29190] dynamic-link: Symbols with version hash zero lead to crashes,
176 not matched correctly
177 [29459] stdio: fwrite does not return EPIPE when underlying write
179 [31791] nss: [Regression] nss: memory for >8 elements in nsswitch.conf
181 [32058] libc: qsort leaks memory if C++ exception is thrown from
183 [32269] dynamic-link: RISC-V IFUNC resolver cannot access gp pointer
184 [32369] stdio: fflush(NULL) doesn't properly flush files opened in
186 [32411] math: THREEp96 seems wrong
187 [32412] dynamic-link: Initial DTV is reallocated using main realloc in
189 [32483] locale: ctype.h macros segfault in multithreaded programs with
191 [32529] stdio: fseek failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
193 [32535] stdio: fflush failure on file opened with "rm" mode after
195 [32541] libc: getenv cannot be overridden in static builds
196 [32574] libc: pthread_attr_getstacksize/pthread_attr_getstack return
197 incorrect main stack size
198 [32612] dynamic-link: [aarch64 PAC] _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic can't be
199 unwound through with _Unwind_Backtrace
200 [32626] math: math: log10p1f is not correctly rounded
201 [32627] math: math: sinhf is not correctly rounded
202 [32630] math: math: tanf is not correctly rounded for all rounding
204 [32653] dynamic-link: Review options for improving both security and
205 backwards compatibility of glibc 2.41 dlopen / execstack handling
206 [32694] math: wrong clang version 3.4 prereq checks in bits/floatn.h
207 for __float128 support, should be 3.9
208 [32708] libc: Inclusion of sys/mount.h triggers many gcc warnings
209 using -Wshift-overflow=2 -Wsystem-headers
210 [32711] math: math: remainder incorrect sign of zero result
211 [32717] libc: glibc tests fail when bfd is built with --enable-error-
213 [32723] math: [2.41 Regression] /usr/include/bits/floatn.h doesn't
214 work with Intel SYCL compiler
215 [32763] dynamic-link: Static PIE with more than one PT_LOAD segments
217 [32777] crypt: The performance of the rand() function degradation
218 [32781] libc: Inccorect attribute access for sched_getattr
219 [32782] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation causing crash
220 [32786] nptl: pthread_cond_* symbols should probably have had a
222 [32795] nptl: aio_suspend_time64 confuses CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
224 [32810] dynamic-link: Immediate crash on x86-64 when running with
225 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.hwcaps=-XSAVEC
226 [32823] libc: make[2]: *** [../Rules:248:
227 /home/dave/gnu/glibc/objdir/elf/tst-origin] Error 1
228 [32897] dynamic-link: pthread_getattr_np fails when executable stack
230 [32918] math: math: atanhf triggers UB
231 [32919] math: math: coshf triggers UB
232 [32920] math: math: logf triggers UB
233 [32921] math: math: sinhf triggers UB
234 [32922] math: math: cbrtf triggers UB
235 [32923] math: math: cospif triggers UB
236 [32924] math: math: erfcf triggers UB
237 [32925] math: math: sinpif triggers UB
238 [32932] libc: riscv: __riscv_hwprobe function attributes are incorrect
239 [32947] libc: stdlib: wrong iovec array size on __libc_message_impl
240 [32980] manual: getopt_long_only does not check long options first, as
242 [32981] ports: elf/tst-execstack-prog-static-tunable fails on
244 [32987] libc: New tst-dlopen-sgid test FAILs
245 [32996] malloc: i386 TLS helper functions don't preserve XMM registers
246 [33035] libc: [2.27 regression] Linux: __close_nocancel_nostatus
248 [33056] string: Power 10 strcmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
250 [33059] string: Power 10 memchr clobbers v20
251 [33060] string: Power 10 strncmp clobbers nonvolatile vector registers
253 [33088] dynamic-link: __ehdr_start may need run-time relocation
254 [33089] build: [2.42 Regression] GCC 14.2.1 failed to build glibc
255 [33134] libc: mcount_internal shouldn't use vector/r16-r31 registers
256 nor call memcpy/memset
257 [33139] stdio: %n after static dlopen is unreliable if file
258 descriptors are exhausted
259 [33165] build: [2.42 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
260 [33173] math: Wrong IFUNC selector is used for modf/modff
261 [33185] regex: Double-free after memory allocation failure in regcomp
262 bracket expression parsing (CVE-2025-8058)
263 [33224] dynamic-link: _dl_debug_state hook no longer works (since
264 8329939a37f483a16013dd8af8303cbcb86d92cb)
270 * Support for testing a glibc build with a set of C and C++ compilers
271 different from the C and C++ compilers used to build glibc has been
273 $ ../configure TEST_CC="gcc-6.4.1" TEST_CXX="g++-6.4.1"
275 This includes support for testing the glibc build with Clang, e.g.,
276 $ ../configure TEST_CC="clang" TEST_CXX="clang++"
278 Some run-time failures with Clang are expected.
280 * The glibc test suite has been extended again significantly, with now
281 6232 separate tests compared to 5408 in glibc-2.40.
283 * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS environment variable, option
284 flags can now be prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags.
285 For example, if /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a
286 process running with the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable
287 performs AAAA DNS queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
289 * The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
290 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
291 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
292 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
293 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
294 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
295 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
296 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
297 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
299 * On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr functions have been
300 added, for supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as
303 * The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
304 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
306 * Character encoding, character type info, and transliteration tables
307 have been updated to Unicode 16.0.0.
309 * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
310 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
311 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
312 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
314 - Trigonometric functions: acospi, asinpi, atan2pi, atanpi, cospi,
317 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
318 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features
319 from this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as
320 the draft is under active development, the set of features enabled by
321 this macro is liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled
322 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
324 * Optimized and correctly rounded exp10m1f, exp2m1f, expm1f, log10f,
325 log2p1f, log1pf, log10p1f, cbrtf, erff, erfcf, lgammaf, tgammaf,
326 tanf, acosf, acoshf, asinf, asinhf, atanf, atan2f, atanhf, coshf,
327 sinhf, and tanhf functions have been added from the CORE-MATH
328 project <https://core-math.gitlabpages.inria.fr/>.
330 * A benchtest framework is now in place to track the performance of many
331 (mostly numerical) functions.
333 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.execstack, can be used to control whether an
334 executable stack is allowed from the main program, either implicitly
335 due to a mising GNU_STACK ELF header or explicit explicitly because
336 of the executable bit in GNU_STACK. The default is to allow
339 * Support for the extensible rseq ABI introduced in the Linux kernel
340 version 6.3 has been added. The size and alignment of the rseq area
341 is now determined by auxiliary vector entries when provided by the
342 running kernel. This results in __rseq_size now exposing features
343 past the original ABI which currently include 'node_id' and 'mm_cid'
344 and will also allow exposing new features as they get added to future
347 * The GNU C Library now supports the Guarded Control Stack extension
348 that allows to use shadow stacks on AArch64 systems that support this
349 extension. Building the library with standard branch protection
350 enabled while using a toolchain that supports GCS (binutils 2.44 and
351 GCC 15 or later) will enable GCS support in glibc. There is no
352 special configuration flag. GCS-enabled glibc is compatible with all
353 existing executables and shared libraries and will run with and
354 without GCS support in the system. GCS is opt-in and can be
355 controlled at runtime via the glibc.cpu.aarch64_gcs tunable. By
356 default GCS is disabled. Linux kernel supports this since 6.13.
358 * Significant effort has been put into improving the code generation
359 and speed of mathematical functions in the vector mathematics library
360 on AArch64, with regard to the Scalable Vector Extension (SVE) and
361 Advanced SIMD (Neon) intrinsics.
363 * Support for memory protection keys on AArch64 systems with enabled
364 Stage 1 permission overlays feature as introduced in Armv8.9 / 9.4
367 * On PowerPC64, support for the return-oriented programming protection
368 instructions added in ISA 3.1 (Power10) has been added, as well as
369 function optimizations for Power10.
371 * A new architecture type has been introduced internally to better
372 support Hygon x86-64 processors.
374 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting
377 * abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
378 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use
379 sigsetjmp to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop
380 the process execution.
382 * dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared
383 library requires it, either implicitly because of a missing GNU_STACK
384 ELF header (and default ABI permission having the executable bit set)
385 or explicitly because of the executable bit in GNU_STACK, and the
386 stack is not already executable. Instead, loading such objects will
389 * The nios2*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
391 * The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
393 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
395 * On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does
396 not act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
397 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
399 * Testing the GNU C Library requires GNU awk to be compiled with support
400 for high precision arithmetic via the MPFR library.
402 Security related changes:
404 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
405 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
408 assert: Buffer overflow when printing assertion failure message
411 The following bugs were resolved with this release:
413 [6050] locale: iconv(1) buffers all of stdin in memory
414 [10460] locale: iconv does not support in-place conversion
415 [12683] nptl: Race conditions in pthread cancellation
416 [14147] nptl: Async cancellation left active after longjmp out of
418 [14799] network: RES_OPTIONS cannot disable options enabled in
420 [17703] locale: iconv(1) EFAULTs reading the second non-mmapable input
421 [20632] stdio: Buffer overflow in wchar IO (_IO_wfile_overflow)
422 [23675] stdio: freopen() with "ccs=<charset>" leaves the stream
424 [25847] nptl: pthread_cond_signal failed to wake up pthread_cond_wait
425 due to a bug in undoing stealing
426 [26275] libc: abort(3) is not signal-safe
427 [27543] ports: Inconsistent behavior when handling FPSCR on SH
428 [27821] stdio: double call to ungetc causes uninitialized memory
429 reading. (also: ungetc causes memory leak)
430 [29437] libc: arc4random is too slow
431 [30009] build: unterminated options list in benchtest
432 [30081] network: libresolv: timeout when running in single-request
434 [30220] math: String to double returns incorrectly rounded value for
435 hexadecimal subnormal
436 [30584] libc: initstate and initstate_r crash when the state argument
438 [30647] stdio: scanf functions wrong on nan()
439 [31394] libc: clone on sparc might fail with -EFAULT for no valid
441 [31717] dynamic-link: TLS for library gets reallocated when loaded in
443 [31799] dynamic-link: -static-pie -Wl,-Ttext-segment=0x50000 doesn't
445 [31859] locale: Transliteration rules with two input characters like
446 "ḌḌ" "DDH" do not work.
447 [31890] network: DNS stub resolver ignores header-only error responses
448 [31928] build: glibc doesn't compile if the compiler already define
450 [31968] libc: mremap implementation in C does not handle arguments
452 [31985] dynamic-link: la_objopen not called when ld.so is imported
453 into a private namespace. However, la_objclose is called with an
455 [31997] libc: exit is not thread-safe, even when all atexit handlers
457 [32026] libc: strerror, strsignal TLS not handled correctly for
458 secondary namespaces (dlmopen, LD_AUDIT)
459 [32033] locale: iconv (the program) does not truncate output file if
461 [32040] nptl: CPU affinity test skeleton for sched_setaffinity and
462 pthread_setaffinity_np can fail to report failure.
463 [32042] build: Compilation issue for tst-resolv-short-response.c with
465 [32045] math: nan() / strtod() incorrectly set errno for overflowing
467 [32046] locale: iconv -c fails to report input encoding errors if
468 output buffer is full
469 [32047] libc: Tunables may incorrectly set Prefer_PMINUB_for_stringop
470 [32050] locale: iconv - - < /dev/null fails with Bad file descriptor
471 [32052] libc: stdlib.h's use of 'sz' identifier causes libstdc++ test
473 [32065] dynamic-link: _dl_fini does not call la_objclose for proxy
475 [32066] dynamic-link: dlclose signals la_activity (LA_ACT_DELETE)
476 after la_objclose calls
477 [32078] string: Random __strchrnul_evex512 failures
478 [32124] libc: readdir_r does not relay errors reported by the kernel
479 [32125] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in __syscall_cancel_arch for
480 powerpc64le-linux-gnu
481 [32126] libc: readdir64_r: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
482 [32128] libc: Compat readdir64_r (__old_readdir64_r) does not enforce
484 [32134] stdio: freopen does not clear flags2 (FD_CLOEXEC etc)
485 [32137] libc: libio/tst-stderr-compat, libio/tst-bz24228, math/test-
486 matherr-2, nptl/tst-pthread_kill-exited fails on powerpc-unknown-
488 [32140] stdio: freopen leaks memory on failure
489 [32145] libc: New stdlib/tst-strtod1i, stdlib/tst-strtod3, stdlib/tst-
490 strtod4, stdlib/tst-strtod5i failures on powerpc64le-linux-gnu
491 [32148] stdio: Memory corruption with ancient i386 binaries using
493 [32168] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 16.0.0
494 [32173] libc: sparc: restartable syscalls are broken
495 [32192] build: s390: utf16-utf32-z9.c fails to build w/ -fomit-frame-
497 [32197] locale: FAIL: iconv/tst-iconv_prog-buffer failures
498 [32212] string: x86_64/strcmp caused 25% performance drop by commit
500 [32214] libc: random_bits always returns the same value if getrandom
502 [32215] libc: Signal handlers after fork may encounter missing robust
504 [32228] libc: .preinit_array in /lib/riscv64-linux-gnu/Scrt1.o is not
506 [32231] dynamic-link: ldconfig auxcache format change in 2.36
507 [32233] libc: error calls va_end twice.
508 [32234] hurd: missing va_end call in fcntl.c
509 [32245] build: glibc -Wstringop-overflow= build failure on hppa
510 [32280] localedata: Enable transliteration rules with two input
512 [32283] libc: Compilation issue for tst-syscall-restart.c with GCC
514 [32323] localedata: eo: Incorrect first day of week and first week of
516 [32344] string: Assembler warnings when building strcpy-evex.S and
518 [32350] hurd: function __xpg_strerror_r crashes for specific arguments
519 [32360] stdio: Compilation issue for tst-printf-format-skeleton.c with
521 [32366] malloc: malloc test failures with GCC 15
522 [32380] locale: dcigettext can cause SIGSEGV when domain name is too
524 [32414] libc: [x86_64 regression] tst-strtod5i.c:124:(.text+0x47c):
525 undefined reference to `__copysignf128'
526 [32418] math: __XXX math functions are declared, but not provided
527 [32420] build: GCC 6 can't build glibc 2.41
528 [32440] libc: getrandom() in glibc 2.41 (development) returns EINVAL
529 as retcode instead of errno on powerpc64le
530 [32448] libc: iconv reports failure with successful transliteration
531 [32450] libc: system() does not return -1 if a child process can't be
533 [32465] nss: ./getaddrinfo.c:1884:11: error: variable 'endp' is used
534 uninitialized whenever '||' condition is true [-Werror,-Wsometimes-
536 [32470] dynamic-link: Integer truncation during x86-64 cache size
538 [32488] libc: Glibc failed to build with CET enabled
539 [32492] libc: New test failures
540 [32494] build: Compilation issue with GCC 14.2.1
541 [32508] dynamic-link: ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: cannot execute binary
542 file: Exec format error
543 [32512] dynamic-link: failure to build on loong, undefined reference
545 [32543] build: x32 glibc is miscompiled
546 [32588] libc: [2.41 regression] bash crashes with 'realloc(): invalid
547 pointer' with `env -i PATH=`
553 * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
554 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
555 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
556 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
558 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
559 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
560 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
561 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
562 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
563 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
565 * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
566 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
567 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
568 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
570 - Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1.
572 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
574 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program
575 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
576 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
577 be a security feature.
579 * On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
580 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
582 * The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
583 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
585 * Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
586 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
588 * On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
589 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
590 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
592 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
594 * Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
595 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
596 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
597 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
598 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
599 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
600 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
603 * __rseq_size now denotes the size of the active rseq area (20 bytes
604 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
606 Security related changes:
608 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
609 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
612 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
613 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
616 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
619 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
622 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
623 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
626 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
629 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
631 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
632 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
633 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
634 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
635 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
636 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
638 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
640 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
641 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
642 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
643 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
644 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
646 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
647 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
649 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
650 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
651 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
652 doesn't work with test wrapper
653 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
654 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
655 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
657 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
659 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
660 0 and zero size types
661 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
662 nor with "^# variable"
663 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
665 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
666 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
667 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
668 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
669 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
671 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
672 resolv.conf reloading
673 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
674 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
675 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
676 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
678 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
679 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
680 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
681 triggers segmentation fault
682 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
683 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
684 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
685 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
686 getrandom is not present
687 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
688 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
689 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
690 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
691 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
693 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
694 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
695 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
696 memory/storage conditions
697 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
699 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
701 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
703 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
704 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
705 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
706 parse_tunables_string
707 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
709 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
710 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
711 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
712 backtrace_symbols returns
713 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
714 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
716 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
717 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
718 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
719 [31760] math: Missing math functions
720 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
721 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
722 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
724 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
725 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
726 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
727 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
728 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
729 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
730 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
731 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
732 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
734 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
735 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
737 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
738 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
739 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
740 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
741 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
742 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
743 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
744 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
745 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
746 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
747 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
748 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
749 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
750 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
752 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
753 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
754 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
755 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
756 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
758 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
760 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
761 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
762 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
763 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
765 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
771 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
772 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
773 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
775 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
776 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
778 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
779 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
780 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
781 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
783 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
784 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
785 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
786 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
787 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
789 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
790 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
791 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
792 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
793 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
794 posix_spawn interface.
796 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
797 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
798 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
800 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
801 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
802 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
803 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
804 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
805 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
807 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
808 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
809 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
812 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
813 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
814 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
815 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
816 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
817 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
818 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
819 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
821 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
822 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
823 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
824 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
825 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
826 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
828 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
830 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
831 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
832 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
834 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
835 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
836 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
837 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
838 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
839 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
840 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
842 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
843 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
844 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
845 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
847 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
848 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
849 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
850 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
853 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
854 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
855 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
856 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
859 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
861 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
863 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
866 Security related changes:
868 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
869 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
872 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
875 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
878 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
882 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
885 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
888 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
891 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
892 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
895 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
898 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
902 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
903 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
906 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
909 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
911 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
912 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
913 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
914 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
915 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
916 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
917 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
918 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
919 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
920 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
921 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
922 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
923 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
925 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
927 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
928 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
929 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
930 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
931 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
932 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
933 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
935 [27601] localedata: License information update in
936 localedata/locales/ast_ES
937 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
939 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
940 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
941 following dlclose with unused TLS
942 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
943 week should be Monday
944 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
945 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
946 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
947 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
948 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
949 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
950 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
952 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
953 encoding name was wrong
954 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
956 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
958 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
959 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
960 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
961 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
962 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
963 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
964 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
965 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
967 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
968 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
969 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
971 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
973 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
974 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
976 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
978 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
980 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
981 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
982 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
984 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
986 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
988 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
990 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
992 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
994 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
995 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
996 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
998 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
999 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
1001 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
1003 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
1004 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
1005 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
1006 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
1007 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
1009 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
1010 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
1011 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
1012 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
1013 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
1015 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
1016 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
1017 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1018 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
1019 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
1020 same as the full month names
1021 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
1022 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
1023 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
1025 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
1031 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
1032 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1033 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
1034 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
1035 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
1036 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
1037 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
1038 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
1039 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
1040 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
1041 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
1043 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
1046 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
1047 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
1048 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
1049 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
1050 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
1051 specified in draft ISO C2X.
1053 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
1054 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
1056 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
1057 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
1061 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
1062 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
1063 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
1064 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
1065 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
1067 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
1068 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
1070 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
1071 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
1072 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
1073 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
1074 original behavior unchanged.
1076 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1078 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
1079 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
1080 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
1081 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
1083 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
1084 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
1085 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
1086 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
1087 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
1088 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
1090 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
1091 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
1092 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
1094 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
1095 feature is now always enabled.
1097 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1099 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
1102 Security related changes:
1104 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
1105 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
1106 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
1107 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
1108 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
1109 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
1111 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1113 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
1114 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
1116 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
1117 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
1118 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
1119 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
1121 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
1122 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
1124 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
1125 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
1126 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
1127 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
1128 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
1129 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
1131 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
1132 symlink for libraries without soname
1133 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
1135 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
1136 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
1137 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
1138 profiling data correctly
1139 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
1140 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
1141 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
1142 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
1144 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
1145 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
1146 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
1148 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
1149 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
1151 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
1152 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
1153 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
1159 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
1160 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
1161 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
1162 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
1164 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1166 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
1167 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
1168 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
1169 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
1171 Security related changes:
1173 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
1174 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
1175 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
1176 portion of the contents of the heap.
1178 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1180 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
1181 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1182 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
1183 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
1184 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
1185 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
1186 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
1188 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
1189 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
1191 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
1192 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
1193 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
1194 gethostbyname and other functions
1195 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
1196 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
1197 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
1199 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
1200 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
1202 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
1203 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
1205 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
1207 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
1208 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1209 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
1210 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
1211 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
1212 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
1213 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
1215 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
1216 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
1217 futexes on qemu-user
1218 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
1220 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
1222 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
1223 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
1224 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
1225 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
1226 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
1228 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
1229 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
1230 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
1231 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
1233 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
1235 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
1236 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
1237 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
1239 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
1241 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
1243 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
1244 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
1245 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
1246 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
1247 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
1248 aux.S: No such file or directory)
1249 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
1250 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
1251 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
1252 coincides with offset change
1253 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
1254 length in fortify mode
1260 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
1261 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
1262 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
1263 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
1264 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
1265 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
1267 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
1268 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
1269 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
1271 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
1272 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
1275 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
1276 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
1277 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
1278 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
1280 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
1281 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
1282 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
1283 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
1284 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
1285 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
1286 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
1287 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
1288 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
1289 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
1290 validation by applications.
1292 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
1293 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
1294 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
1295 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
1298 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
1299 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
1300 unpredictable output.
1302 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
1303 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
1304 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
1305 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1306 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
1307 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
1308 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
1309 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
1311 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
1312 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
1313 quality randomness from the kernel.
1315 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1316 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
1319 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
1321 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
1323 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1325 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1326 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1327 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1329 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
1330 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
1331 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
1332 when libc.so is issued directly.
1334 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
1336 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1338 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
1339 return different result with versioned "foo"
1340 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
1342 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
1343 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
1344 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
1346 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
1347 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
1348 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
1350 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
1352 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
1354 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
1355 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
1356 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
1357 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
1358 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
1359 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
1360 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
1362 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
1364 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
1365 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
1366 (breaks test isolation)
1367 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
1368 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
1369 __convert_scm_timestamps
1370 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
1371 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
1372 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
1374 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
1375 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
1376 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
1377 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
1378 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
1379 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
1380 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
1382 [28936] build: nm: No such file
1383 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
1384 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
1386 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
1388 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
1389 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
1390 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
1392 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
1393 on ENOENT and EACCES
1394 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
1395 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
1396 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
1397 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
1398 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
1399 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
1400 is promoted to global scope
1401 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
1402 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
1403 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
1405 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
1407 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
1409 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
1410 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
1411 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
1412 before '__fortified_attr_access'
1413 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
1414 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
1415 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
1416 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
1417 value for filling after \0
1418 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
1419 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
1420 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
1422 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
1423 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
1424 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
1425 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
1426 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
1427 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
1428 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
1430 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
1431 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
1432 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
1433 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
1434 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
1435 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
1436 missing on microblaze with largefile
1442 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1443 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
1444 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1446 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
1447 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
1449 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
1450 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
1451 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
1452 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
1453 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
1454 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
1455 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
1456 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
1457 glibc, and must be installed.
1459 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
1460 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
1461 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
1463 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
1464 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
1466 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
1467 fMxfmafNx functions.
1469 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
1470 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
1471 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
1472 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
1473 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
1474 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
1476 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
1477 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
1478 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1481 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1482 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1484 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1485 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1487 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1489 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1490 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1491 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1493 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1494 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1495 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1496 object dependency cases.
1498 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1499 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1500 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1501 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
1503 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1504 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1505 return value is only used for its boolean status.
1507 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1508 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1509 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1510 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1511 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1512 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1513 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1514 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1515 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1516 Restartable Sequences.
1518 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1519 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
1521 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1522 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1523 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1524 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1525 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1526 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1527 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1530 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
1531 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
1532 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1533 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1534 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1537 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1538 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1540 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1541 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1544 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1545 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1550 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1551 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1553 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1554 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1555 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1556 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1557 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
1559 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1560 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
1562 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1563 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1564 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
1566 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1567 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1568 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1569 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1572 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
1573 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1575 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1577 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1578 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1579 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
1581 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1582 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1584 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1585 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1587 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
1589 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1591 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1592 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1593 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
1595 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1596 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1597 catching coredumps and backtraces.
1599 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1600 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1601 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1603 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1604 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1605 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
1607 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1608 support prelink PIE binaries.
1610 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1612 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1613 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
1614 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
1615 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
1616 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
1618 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
1619 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
1620 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
1621 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
1623 Security related changes:
1625 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1626 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1627 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
1629 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1630 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1632 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1633 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1634 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1636 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1637 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1638 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1639 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1640 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1642 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1644 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1645 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1646 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1647 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1649 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1650 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1652 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1654 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1655 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1656 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1657 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1658 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1659 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1661 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1662 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1663 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1664 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1665 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1666 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1667 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1668 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1669 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1670 --enable-initfini-array
1671 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1672 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1673 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1674 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1675 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1676 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1678 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1679 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1680 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1682 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1683 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1684 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1686 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1687 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1689 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1690 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1691 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1693 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1694 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1695 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1696 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1697 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1698 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1699 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1701 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1702 only dynamic section
1703 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1704 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1706 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1707 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1708 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1709 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1710 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1711 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1712 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1714 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1715 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1716 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1717 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1718 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1719 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1721 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1722 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1723 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1724 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1725 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1726 spurious NUL character on state reset
1727 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1729 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1730 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1732 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1733 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1735 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1736 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1737 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1738 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1739 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1740 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1742 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1744 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1745 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1746 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1747 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1749 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1750 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1751 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1752 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1753 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1754 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1755 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1756 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1757 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1758 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1759 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1760 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1761 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1762 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1764 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1766 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1767 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1768 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1770 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1771 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1773 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1775 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1776 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1777 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1784 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1785 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1786 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1787 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1788 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1789 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1790 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1791 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1792 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1793 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1794 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1795 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1796 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1797 potentially exposing application bugs.
1799 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1800 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1801 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1802 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1804 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1805 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1806 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1807 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1808 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1811 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1812 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1813 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1815 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1816 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1817 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1818 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1820 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1822 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1823 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1824 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1825 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1826 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1828 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1829 --disable-scv configure option.
1831 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1832 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1833 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1834 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1835 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1836 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1839 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1840 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1841 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1842 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1843 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1844 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1847 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1848 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1850 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1851 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1852 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1853 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1854 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1855 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1856 is currently a GNU extension.
1858 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1859 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1861 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1862 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1863 although it is also present in other systems.
1865 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1866 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1867 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1868 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1870 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1871 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1872 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1874 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1876 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1877 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1880 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1881 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1882 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1884 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1885 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1886 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1888 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1889 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1891 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1893 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1894 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1895 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1896 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1897 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1898 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1899 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1900 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1901 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1902 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1903 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1905 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1906 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1907 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1908 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1909 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1910 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1911 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1912 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1914 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1915 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1916 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1917 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1918 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1919 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1920 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1922 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1923 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1924 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1925 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1926 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1927 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1928 upgrade or downgrade process.
1930 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1931 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1932 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1934 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1935 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1936 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1937 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1939 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1940 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1941 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1942 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1943 this functionality back.
1945 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1946 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1947 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1948 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1950 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1951 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1952 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1953 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1954 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1955 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1956 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1957 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1958 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1960 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1962 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1963 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1964 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1965 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1967 Security related changes:
1969 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1970 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1971 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1972 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1974 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1975 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1976 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1978 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1979 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1980 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1982 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1984 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1985 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1986 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1987 given integer (closefrom)
1988 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1989 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1990 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1991 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1992 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1993 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1994 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1996 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1997 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1998 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1999 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
2000 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
2001 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
2002 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
2004 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
2005 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
2006 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
2007 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
2008 pthread_create and dlopen
2009 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
2010 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
2011 when non-root user changes priority
2012 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
2014 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
2015 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
2016 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
2018 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
2019 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
2021 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
2022 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
2023 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
2024 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
2026 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
2027 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
2028 the right free implementation
2029 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
2030 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
2031 shm_open to pick wrong directory
2032 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
2033 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
2035 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
2036 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
2037 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
2038 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
2039 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
2040 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
2041 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
2043 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
2044 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
2046 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
2047 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
2048 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
2049 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
2050 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
2051 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
2053 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
2054 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
2055 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
2056 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
2057 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
2058 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
2059 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
2060 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
2062 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
2063 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
2065 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
2066 information for the current directory
2067 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
2068 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
2069 dl_runtime_resolve_*
2070 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
2071 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
2073 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
2074 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
2075 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
2076 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
2078 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
2079 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
2080 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
2081 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
2082 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
2083 tries resolving them lazily
2084 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
2086 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
2087 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
2089 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
2090 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
2091 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
2093 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
2095 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
2096 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
2097 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
2099 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
2100 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
2101 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
2102 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
2103 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
2104 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
2105 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
2106 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
2107 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
2108 with n >= 0x80000000
2109 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
2110 thread never allocated anything
2111 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
2112 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
2113 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
2114 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
2115 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
2117 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
2118 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
2119 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
2121 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
2129 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
2130 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
2131 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
2133 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
2134 to change argv[0] string.
2136 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
2137 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
2138 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
2139 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
2140 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
2141 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
2142 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
2143 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
2144 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
2146 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
2147 information and library search path diagnostics.
2149 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
2150 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
2151 larger than fit in an integer.
2153 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
2155 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
2156 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2162 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
2165 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
2166 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
2167 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
2168 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
2171 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2173 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
2176 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
2177 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
2178 Instead, the default implementation is used.
2180 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
2181 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
2182 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
2185 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
2186 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
2187 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
2189 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
2190 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
2191 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2192 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2193 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
2194 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
2196 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
2197 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
2198 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
2199 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
2200 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
2201 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
2204 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2206 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
2207 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
2208 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
2209 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
2210 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
2211 perform any adjustments.
2213 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
2214 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
2215 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
2216 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
2218 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
2220 Security related changes:
2222 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
2223 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
2224 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
2225 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
2226 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
2228 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2229 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
2230 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
2232 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
2233 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
2235 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
2236 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
2238 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2240 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
2241 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
2242 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
2243 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
2245 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
2246 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
2247 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
2248 "haswell" platform subdirectory
2249 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
2251 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
2253 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
2255 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
2256 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
2257 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
2258 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
2259 changing gnuc version
2260 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
2262 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
2264 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
2265 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
2266 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
2267 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
2268 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
2269 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
2270 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
2271 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
2272 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
2273 too much stack space
2274 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
2275 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
2276 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
2278 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
2280 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
2281 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
2283 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
2284 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
2285 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
2286 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
2287 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
2289 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
2290 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
2291 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
2293 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
2294 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
2295 at the end of a memory mapping
2296 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
2297 by the caller to the kernel
2298 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
2299 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
2300 declarations for __sigsetjmp
2301 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
2303 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
2304 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
2305 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
2306 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
2307 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
2308 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
2309 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
2311 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
2312 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
2313 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
2314 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
2316 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
2318 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
2320 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
2321 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
2322 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
2323 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
2325 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
2327 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
2328 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
2329 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
2331 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
2333 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
2335 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
2337 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
2338 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
2339 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
2340 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
2342 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
2344 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
2346 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
2347 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
2348 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
2350 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
2351 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
2352 [27177] dynamic-link:
2353 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
2355 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
2356 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
2357 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
2358 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
2365 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2366 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
2367 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2369 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
2371 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
2372 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
2373 Three ABIs are supported:
2379 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
2380 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
2382 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
2383 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
2385 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
2386 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
2387 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
2390 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
2391 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
2392 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
2394 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
2395 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
2396 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
2398 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
2399 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
2400 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
2401 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
2404 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
2405 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
2406 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
2407 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
2408 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
2409 NULL for an invalid signal number.
2411 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
2412 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2414 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
2415 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
2416 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
2417 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
2418 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
2419 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
2421 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
2422 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
2424 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
2425 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
2426 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
2427 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
2428 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
2429 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
2430 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
2431 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
2432 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
2433 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
2434 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
2437 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2439 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
2440 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
2441 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
2442 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
2443 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
2444 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
2445 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
2447 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
2448 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
2449 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
2450 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
2451 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
2452 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
2453 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
2454 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
2455 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
2457 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2458 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
2459 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
2460 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
2461 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
2463 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
2464 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
2465 was not declared in any header file.
2467 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
2468 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
2469 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
2470 sigaction functions instead.
2472 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
2473 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
2475 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
2476 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2477 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
2478 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2481 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2482 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2483 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
2484 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2485 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2487 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2488 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2489 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2490 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2492 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2493 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2494 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2495 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2496 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2497 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2498 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2500 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2501 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2502 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2503 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2504 flavor of secure RPC.)
2506 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2507 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2508 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2509 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2510 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2511 object, to enable the hooks.
2513 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2514 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2515 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2518 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2520 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2521 long double redirects.
2523 Security related changes:
2525 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2526 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2527 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2529 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2530 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2531 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
2533 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2534 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2536 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2537 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2538 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2541 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2543 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2544 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2545 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2546 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2547 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2548 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2549 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2550 filtee has constructor
2551 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2552 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2553 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2554 character entities for infinity & pi
2555 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2556 segfaults in applications
2557 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
2558 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
2559 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2560 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2561 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2562 function with -mlong-double-64
2563 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2565 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2567 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2568 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2569 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2570 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2571 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2572 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2574 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2575 dynamically loaded dsos
2576 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2577 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2579 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2580 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2581 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2582 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2583 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2584 stale configuration forever
2585 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2587 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2589 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2590 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2592 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2593 on 32 bit and old kernel
2594 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2595 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2597 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2598 amount of sigset_t bytes
2599 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2601 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2602 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2603 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2604 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2605 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2606 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2607 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2608 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2609 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2610 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2612 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2613 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2614 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2615 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2616 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2617 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2618 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2620 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2621 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2623 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2624 exiting detached thread
2625 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2627 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2629 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2630 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2631 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2632 dependencies in audit mode
2633 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2634 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2635 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2636 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2637 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2639 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2640 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2642 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2643 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2645 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2646 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2647 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2648 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2649 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2650 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2651 corruption in memset
2658 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2659 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2660 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2661 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2662 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2663 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
2665 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2666 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2667 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2668 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2670 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
2671 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
2672 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2674 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2676 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2677 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2678 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2679 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2680 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2681 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2682 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2683 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2685 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2687 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2688 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2689 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2690 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2691 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2692 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
2694 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
2695 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2696 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2698 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2699 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2700 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2701 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2703 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2704 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2705 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2706 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2707 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2708 made this no longer practical.
2710 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2711 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2712 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2713 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2716 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2717 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2718 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2720 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2721 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2722 using clock_gettime instead.
2724 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2725 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2726 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2727 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2728 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2730 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2731 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2732 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2733 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2735 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2736 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2737 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2738 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2739 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2740 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2742 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2743 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2744 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2745 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2748 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2749 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2750 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2752 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2755 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2756 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2757 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2758 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2759 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2761 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2762 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2763 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2764 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2765 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2766 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2767 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2768 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2770 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2771 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2773 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2774 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2775 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2776 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2777 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2778 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2780 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2782 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2783 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2784 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2786 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2787 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2788 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2790 Security related changes:
2792 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2793 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2795 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2796 environment variable during program execution after a security
2797 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2798 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2799 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2801 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2803 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2804 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2805 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2806 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2807 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2808 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2809 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2810 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2812 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2813 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2814 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2815 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2816 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2817 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2818 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2819 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2820 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2821 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2823 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2825 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2826 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2827 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2828 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2829 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2830 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2831 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2833 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2835 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2836 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2837 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2838 (stringop-overflow error)
2839 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2840 functions other can lead to crashes
2841 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2842 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2844 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2845 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2846 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2847 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2848 still can fail with an error
2849 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2850 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2851 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2852 initialized correctly
2853 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2855 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2856 value to an unsigned
2857 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2858 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2859 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2861 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2863 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2865 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2867 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2868 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2869 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2871 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2872 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2874 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2875 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2876 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2877 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2878 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2879 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2886 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2887 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2888 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2890 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2891 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2893 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2894 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2895 to the callback function.
2897 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2899 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2900 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2903 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2905 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2906 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2907 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2908 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2909 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2911 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2912 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2913 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2914 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2915 link time reference, is gone.
2917 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2918 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2919 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2920 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2921 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2922 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2923 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2924 the clock choice at initialization time).
2926 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2927 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2928 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2930 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2932 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2933 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2934 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2935 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2936 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2937 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2938 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2939 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2940 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2942 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2943 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2944 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2945 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2948 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2949 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2951 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2952 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2954 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2955 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2957 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2960 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2961 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2962 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2964 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2965 header have been removed.
2967 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2968 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2969 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2970 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2972 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2974 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2976 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2977 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2979 Security related changes:
2981 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2982 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2983 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2984 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2985 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2986 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2987 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2989 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2990 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2991 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2993 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2995 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2996 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2997 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2998 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2999 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
3000 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
3001 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
3002 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
3003 invalid input drops valid char
3004 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
3005 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
3006 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
3007 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
3008 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
3010 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
3011 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
3012 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
3013 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
3015 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
3016 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
3017 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
3018 for long double = double
3019 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
3020 long double = double
3021 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
3022 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
3023 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
3025 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
3026 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
3028 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
3029 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
3030 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
3031 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
3032 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
3033 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
3034 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
3035 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
3036 not the default "nor"
3037 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
3038 false positives, change to modern flexible array
3039 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
3040 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
3042 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
3043 unnecessary librt dependencies
3044 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
3045 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
3046 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
3047 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
3049 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
3050 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
3052 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
3053 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
3054 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3055 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
3056 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
3057 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
3058 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
3059 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
3060 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
3061 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
3062 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
3063 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
3065 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
3067 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
3068 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
3070 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
3071 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
3072 kernels and break testing
3073 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
3074 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
3075 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
3076 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
3077 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
3078 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
3079 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
3081 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
3082 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
3084 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
3086 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
3087 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
3088 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
3089 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
3090 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
3091 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
3092 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
3093 always implemented in the same library
3094 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
3095 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
3096 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
3104 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
3105 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
3107 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
3108 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
3109 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
3110 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
3111 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
3112 configured location.
3114 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
3116 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
3117 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
3119 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
3120 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
3121 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
3122 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
3123 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
3124 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
3125 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
3126 process actually does not use HTM).
3128 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
3129 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
3130 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
3131 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
3132 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
3135 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
3136 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
3137 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
3138 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
3139 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
3141 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
3142 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
3144 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
3145 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
3147 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
3148 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
3149 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
3150 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
3151 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
3152 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
3153 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
3155 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
3156 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
3157 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
3159 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3161 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
3162 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
3164 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
3165 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
3166 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
3167 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
3169 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
3170 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
3171 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
3172 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
3175 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
3176 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
3177 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
3178 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
3179 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
3180 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
3182 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
3183 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
3184 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
3185 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
3186 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
3188 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
3189 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
3190 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
3192 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3194 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
3196 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
3197 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
3199 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3200 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
3202 Security related changes:
3204 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
3205 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
3206 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
3208 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
3209 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
3210 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
3211 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
3212 Reported by H.J. Lu.
3214 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
3215 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
3216 or command injection issues in applications.
3218 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3220 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
3221 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
3222 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
3224 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
3225 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
3226 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
3228 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
3229 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
3230 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
3231 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
3232 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
3233 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
3234 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
3235 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
3236 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
3237 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
3238 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
3239 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
3240 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
3241 pointer argument is non-NULL
3242 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
3243 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
3244 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
3245 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
3246 multithreads call popen
3247 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
3248 and pthread_create fails.
3249 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
3250 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
3252 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
3253 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
3254 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
3256 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
3258 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
3260 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3261 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
3263 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
3264 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
3265 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
3266 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
3267 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
3268 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
3269 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
3271 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
3272 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
3273 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
3275 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
3276 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
3277 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
3278 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
3280 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
3282 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
3283 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
3284 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
3285 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
3287 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
3289 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
3290 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
3291 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
3293 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
3294 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
3295 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
3296 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
3297 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
3298 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
3300 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
3301 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
3302 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
3303 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
3304 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
3305 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
3306 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
3307 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
3308 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
3309 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
3310 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3311 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
3312 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
3313 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
3315 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
3316 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
3317 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
3318 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
3319 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
3321 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
3322 nearest rounding mode
3323 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
3324 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
3325 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
3326 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
3327 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
3328 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
3329 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
3330 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
3331 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
3333 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
3334 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
3336 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
3337 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
3338 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
3339 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
3341 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
3343 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
3345 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
3347 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
3348 answers will be rejected)
3349 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
3356 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
3357 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
3358 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
3359 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
3360 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
3361 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
3362 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
3363 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
3364 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
3365 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
3366 archive or binary locales.
3368 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
3369 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
3370 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
3371 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
3372 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
3373 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
3374 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
3375 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
3376 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
3377 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
3378 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
3381 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
3382 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
3383 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
3384 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
3385 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
3386 field) to indicate such support is required.
3388 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3389 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
3390 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3392 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
3393 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
3395 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
3396 fMxaddfNx functions.
3398 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
3399 fMxsubfNx functions.
3401 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
3402 fMxmulfNx functions.
3404 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
3405 fMxdivfNx functions.
3407 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
3408 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
3409 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
3410 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
3413 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
3414 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
3416 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
3419 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
3420 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
3421 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
3422 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
3423 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
3424 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
3425 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
3426 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
3428 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
3429 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
3430 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
3431 the fstatat64 function.
3433 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
3434 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
3435 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
3436 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
3437 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
3438 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
3439 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
3440 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
3441 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
3443 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
3444 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
3445 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
3446 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
3447 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
3448 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
3449 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
3450 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
3451 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
3452 results in a load failure now.
3454 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
3455 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
3458 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
3459 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
3461 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
3462 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
3464 - call_once for function call synchronization.
3466 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
3467 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
3469 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
3471 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
3473 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3475 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
3476 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
3477 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
3479 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3480 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3481 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3482 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3483 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3484 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3486 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3487 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3488 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3489 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3490 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3491 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3494 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3495 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3496 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3497 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3498 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3499 further explanation.
3501 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3502 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3503 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
3505 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3507 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3508 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3509 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3511 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3512 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3513 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3514 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3516 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3517 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3518 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3519 for this function instead.
3521 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3522 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3523 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3525 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3526 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3527 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3528 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3530 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3531 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3532 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3533 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3534 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3536 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3537 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3538 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3539 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3540 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3541 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3544 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3545 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3546 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3549 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3550 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3551 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3553 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3554 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3555 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3556 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3557 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3558 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3560 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3561 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3562 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3563 behavior in a future release.
3565 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3567 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
3569 Security related changes:
3571 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3572 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3573 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3574 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
3576 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3577 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3579 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3580 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3583 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3584 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3585 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3587 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3589 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3590 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3591 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3592 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3593 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3594 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3595 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3596 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3597 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3599 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3600 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3601 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3602 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3603 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3605 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3607 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3608 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3609 scope with -O1 and higher
3610 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3611 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3612 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3613 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3614 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3615 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3616 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3617 horrible machine code)
3618 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3620 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3621 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3623 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3624 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3626 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3627 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3628 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3629 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3630 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3632 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3633 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3634 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3635 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3636 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3638 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3639 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3640 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3642 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3643 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3644 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3645 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3646 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3647 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3648 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3649 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3650 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3651 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3652 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3653 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3654 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3656 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3658 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3659 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3660 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3661 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3662 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3663 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3664 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3665 for Spanish with CLDR
3666 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3667 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3668 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3669 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3670 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3671 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3673 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3675 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3676 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3677 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3678 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3680 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3681 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3682 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3683 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3684 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3685 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3686 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3687 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3688 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3689 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3690 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3691 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3692 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3693 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3694 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3695 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3696 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3698 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3699 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3701 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3702 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3703 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3704 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3705 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3706 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3708 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3710 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3711 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3712 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3713 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3714 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3715 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3716 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3717 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3718 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3719 and libc build with -Os)
3720 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3721 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3722 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3723 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3724 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3725 that changes /etc/passwd
3726 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3728 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3729 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3730 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3732 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3733 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3734 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3735 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3736 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3738 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3739 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3741 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3742 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3743 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3744 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3746 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3747 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3748 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3749 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3751 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3753 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3755 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3757 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3759 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3760 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3761 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3762 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3763 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3764 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3765 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3766 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3768 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3775 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3776 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3777 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3778 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3779 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3780 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3781 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3782 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3783 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3785 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3786 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3789 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3791 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3793 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3794 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3795 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3796 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3797 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3798 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3799 from a security and performance perspective.
3801 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3802 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3803 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3804 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3806 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3807 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3808 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3809 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3810 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3812 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3813 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3814 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3815 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3818 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3819 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3820 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3822 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3824 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3825 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3828 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3830 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3832 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3833 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3834 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3836 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3837 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3838 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3839 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3840 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3841 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3842 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3844 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3845 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3846 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3847 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3848 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3849 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3850 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3852 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3853 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3854 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3855 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3858 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3859 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3860 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3861 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3863 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3864 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3865 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3867 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3868 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3869 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3871 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3872 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3873 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3879 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3881 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3882 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3883 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3884 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3885 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3886 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3887 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3888 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3889 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3892 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3893 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3894 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3896 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3897 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3898 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3899 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3900 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3901 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3902 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3903 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3904 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3905 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3906 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3907 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3908 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3909 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3910 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3911 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3912 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3913 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3914 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3915 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3916 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3917 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3918 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3919 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3920 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3921 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3923 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3924 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3926 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3927 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3928 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3929 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3930 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3931 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3932 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3934 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3935 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3936 exp10l for these functions instead.
3938 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3939 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3940 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3942 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3943 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3946 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3947 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3948 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3949 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3951 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3952 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3954 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3955 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3957 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3960 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3962 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3963 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3964 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3967 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3968 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3969 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3970 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3971 use, but predates the bits convention.
3973 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3975 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3978 Security related changes:
3980 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3981 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3982 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3983 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3986 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3987 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3988 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3989 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3991 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3992 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3993 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3996 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3997 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3998 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
4000 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4001 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
4002 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
4003 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
4005 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
4006 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
4007 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
4010 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
4011 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
4012 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
4013 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
4014 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
4016 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
4017 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
4020 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
4021 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
4022 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
4024 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
4025 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
4026 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
4028 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
4029 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
4030 small, instead of NULL.
4032 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4034 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
4035 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
4036 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
4038 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
4039 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
4040 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
4042 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4043 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
4044 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
4045 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
4046 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
4047 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
4048 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
4049 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
4050 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
4052 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
4053 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
4054 width Latin characters
4055 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
4056 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
4057 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
4059 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
4060 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
4062 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
4063 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
4064 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
4065 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
4066 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
4068 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
4069 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
4070 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
4071 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
4072 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
4073 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
4074 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
4075 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
4076 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
4077 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
4079 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
4080 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
4081 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
4082 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
4083 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
4084 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
4085 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
4086 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
4088 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
4089 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
4091 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
4092 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
4094 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
4095 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
4096 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
4097 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
4098 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
4099 __regcall calling convention
4100 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
4101 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
4102 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
4103 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
4104 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
4105 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
4106 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
4107 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
4108 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
4109 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
4110 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
4111 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
4112 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4114 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
4116 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
4118 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
4119 consistency check failures
4120 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
4121 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
4122 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
4123 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
4125 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
4127 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
4128 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
4129 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
4130 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
4131 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
4132 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
4133 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
4134 on memory allocation failure
4135 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
4136 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
4138 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
4140 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
4141 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
4142 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
4143 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
4144 instead of EAI_NODATA
4145 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
4146 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
4147 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
4148 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
4150 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
4151 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
4152 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
4153 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
4154 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
4155 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
4156 allocation in syscall loops)
4157 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
4158 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
4159 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
4160 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
4161 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
4162 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
4163 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
4164 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
4165 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
4167 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
4168 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4169 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
4171 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
4172 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
4174 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
4176 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
4177 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
4178 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
4179 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
4180 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
4181 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
4182 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
4183 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
4184 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
4185 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
4186 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
4187 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
4188 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
4189 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
4190 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
4191 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
4192 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
4193 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
4195 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
4197 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
4198 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
4200 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
4201 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
4202 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
4203 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
4205 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
4206 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
4207 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
4208 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
4209 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
4210 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
4211 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
4212 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
4213 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
4214 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
4215 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
4217 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
4218 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
4219 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
4220 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
4221 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
4222 the svid compat wrapper
4223 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
4224 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
4225 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
4226 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
4227 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
4228 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
4230 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
4231 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
4233 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
4234 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
4235 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
4236 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
4237 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
4238 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
4240 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4241 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
4242 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
4243 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
4245 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
4246 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
4248 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
4249 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
4250 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
4251 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
4252 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
4253 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
4254 inside the ASCII printable range
4255 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
4257 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
4258 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
4259 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
4261 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
4262 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
4264 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
4265 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
4266 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
4268 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
4269 networking interface
4270 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
4271 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
4272 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
4273 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
4274 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
4275 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
4276 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
4277 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
4278 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
4280 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4281 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4282 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4283 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4284 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
4285 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
4286 same as for Croatian
4287 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
4288 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
4289 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
4291 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
4293 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
4294 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
4295 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4296 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
4297 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
4299 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
4300 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
4301 modified in case of success
4302 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
4303 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
4305 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
4307 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
4308 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
4309 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
4310 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
4311 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
4312 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
4313 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
4314 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
4316 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
4317 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
4318 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
4319 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
4320 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
4321 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
4322 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
4323 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
4324 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
4326 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
4327 elision and tunables
4328 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
4330 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
4331 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
4332 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
4334 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4335 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
4337 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
4338 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
4339 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
4340 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
4341 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
4342 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
4343 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
4344 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
4345 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
4352 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
4353 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
4354 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
4355 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
4356 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
4357 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
4358 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
4360 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4361 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
4362 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4363 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
4364 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
4365 are rendered with pango, see for example:
4366 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
4368 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
4369 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
4372 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
4374 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
4375 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
4376 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
4378 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
4379 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
4380 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
4381 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
4382 object are still limited to six search domains.
4384 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
4385 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
4386 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
4388 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
4389 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
4391 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
4392 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
4393 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
4394 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
4396 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
4397 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
4398 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
4399 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
4401 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
4402 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
4403 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
4404 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
4406 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
4407 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
4408 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
4410 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
4411 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
4412 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
4413 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
4415 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
4416 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
4417 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
4418 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
4419 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
4421 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
4422 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
4423 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
4424 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
4425 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
4426 interfaces should be used instead.
4428 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
4430 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
4431 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
4432 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
4433 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
4434 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
4435 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
4436 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
4437 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
4439 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
4442 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
4443 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
4444 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
4445 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
4447 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
4448 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
4451 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
4452 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
4453 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
4454 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
4455 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
4457 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
4458 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
4459 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
4460 name service modules, to be built and installed.
4462 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
4463 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
4464 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
4465 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
4467 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
4468 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
4470 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
4471 exported by accident.
4473 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
4474 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
4475 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
4477 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
4478 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
4479 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4480 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4482 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4484 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4486 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4489 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4490 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4492 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4493 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4495 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4496 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4497 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4498 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4499 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4500 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4501 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4502 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4504 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4505 synced with the kernel:
4507 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4508 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4510 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4511 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4512 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4514 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4515 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4517 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4519 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4520 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4523 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
4525 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4526 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
4528 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
4529 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4530 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4531 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
4532 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
4534 Security related changes:
4536 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
4537 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4539 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4540 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4542 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4543 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4546 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4547 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
4549 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4551 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4552 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4553 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4555 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4557 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4558 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4559 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4561 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4562 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4563 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4564 x86 and other generic code
4565 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4566 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4568 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4569 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4570 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4571 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4572 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4573 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4574 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4576 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4577 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4578 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4579 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4581 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4582 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4584 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4586 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4587 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4588 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4590 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4591 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4592 failures consistently
4593 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4594 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4595 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4596 frame-pointer on i386
4597 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4599 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
4600 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4601 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4602 generic c code is used
4603 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4604 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4606 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4608 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4609 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4611 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4612 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4613 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4614 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4615 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4616 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4617 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4618 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4619 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4620 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4622 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4624 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4625 new posix_spawn implementation
4626 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4627 leads to lower CPU frequency
4628 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4629 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4630 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4631 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4632 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4633 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4634 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4635 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4636 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4637 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4638 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4639 not support gethostbyname4_r
4640 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4642 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4644 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4645 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4646 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4647 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4648 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4649 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4650 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4652 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4653 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4654 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4655 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4656 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4657 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4658 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4659 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4660 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4661 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4662 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4663 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4665 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4666 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4667 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4668 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4669 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4670 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4671 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4672 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4674 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4675 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4676 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4677 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4678 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4679 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4680 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4681 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4682 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4683 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4684 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4685 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4686 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4687 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4688 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4689 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4690 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4691 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4692 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4693 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4694 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4696 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4697 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4698 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4699 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4700 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4702 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4703 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4705 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4706 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4708 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4709 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4711 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4712 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4713 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4714 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4716 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4717 leading to relocation crash
4718 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4719 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4720 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4721 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4722 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4723 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4724 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4725 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4726 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4728 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4730 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4731 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4732 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4733 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4734 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4735 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4736 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4737 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4739 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4741 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4743 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4744 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4745 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4746 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4747 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4748 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4749 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4750 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4751 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4752 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4753 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4754 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4755 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4756 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4757 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4758 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4759 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4760 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4761 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4762 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4763 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4764 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4765 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4766 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4767 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4768 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4769 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4771 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4772 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4773 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4774 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4775 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4780 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4781 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4782 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4785 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4786 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4787 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4790 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4791 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4792 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4795 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4796 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4797 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4798 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4799 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4800 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4801 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4804 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4805 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4808 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4809 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4810 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4812 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4813 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4814 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4815 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4818 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4819 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4820 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4822 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4823 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4824 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4825 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4826 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4827 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4828 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4829 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4830 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4831 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4832 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4835 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4837 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4839 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4840 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4841 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4843 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4844 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4846 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4849 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4851 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4853 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4854 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4856 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4858 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4859 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4861 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4862 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4864 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4865 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4866 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4868 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4869 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4870 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4871 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4872 effects of the memory clear).
4874 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4875 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4876 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4877 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4879 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4880 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4881 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4882 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4883 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4884 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4886 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4889 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4890 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4891 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4892 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4893 as large as several megabytes.
4895 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4896 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4899 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4900 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4901 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4902 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4903 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4904 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4905 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4907 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4908 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4909 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4910 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4912 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4913 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4914 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4917 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4918 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4919 They were already unimplemented.
4921 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4922 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4923 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4924 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4926 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4927 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4928 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4929 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4930 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4932 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4933 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4934 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4935 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4936 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4938 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4939 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4940 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4941 did not reflect that.
4943 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4944 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4945 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4946 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4947 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4948 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4949 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4952 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4953 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4954 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4955 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4957 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4958 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4959 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4960 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4962 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4963 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4966 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4967 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4970 Security related changes:
4972 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4973 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4974 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4975 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4976 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4978 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4979 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4980 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4981 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4984 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4986 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4987 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4989 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4990 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4991 before it started waiting
4992 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4993 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4994 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4995 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4997 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4998 library linked with pthread
4999 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
5000 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
5001 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
5002 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
5003 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
5004 after being __libc_memalign()'d
5005 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
5007 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
5009 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
5010 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
5011 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
5012 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
5013 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
5014 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
5015 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
5016 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
5017 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
5019 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
5020 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
5021 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
5022 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
5023 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
5024 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
5025 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
5026 causes a segmentation fault
5027 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
5029 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
5030 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
5032 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
5034 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
5035 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
5036 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
5038 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
5039 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
5041 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
5042 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
5043 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
5044 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
5045 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
5046 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
5047 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
5048 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
5050 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
5051 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
5052 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
5054 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
5056 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
5058 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
5059 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
5060 cause transition penalty
5061 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
5062 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
5063 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
5064 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
5065 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
5067 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
5069 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
5070 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
5071 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
5072 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
5073 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
5074 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
5076 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
5078 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
5079 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
5080 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
5081 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
5082 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
5083 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
5084 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
5085 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
5086 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
5087 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
5088 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
5089 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
5090 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
5091 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
5093 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
5094 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
5095 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
5096 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
5097 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
5098 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
5099 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
5100 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
5101 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
5102 U+20AC), not same as GBK
5103 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
5104 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
5105 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
5106 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
5107 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
5108 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
5109 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
5110 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
5112 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5113 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
5114 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
5115 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
5116 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
5118 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
5119 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
5120 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
5121 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
5122 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
5123 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
5124 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
5126 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
5127 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
5128 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
5129 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
5130 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5134 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5135 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
5136 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
5137 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
5138 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
5141 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
5142 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
5143 been included in previous releases.
5145 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
5146 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
5148 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
5149 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
5150 instead of “union wait”.
5152 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
5153 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
5154 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
5155 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
5156 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
5157 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
5158 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
5160 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
5163 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
5164 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
5167 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
5168 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
5169 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
5170 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
5171 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
5174 Security related changes:
5176 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
5177 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
5178 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
5180 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
5181 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
5182 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
5183 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
5185 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
5186 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
5187 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
5189 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
5190 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
5191 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
5193 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
5194 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
5195 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
5196 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
5198 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5200 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
5201 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
5203 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
5204 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
5205 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
5206 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
5207 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
5208 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
5209 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
5210 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
5212 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
5213 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
5214 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
5215 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
5216 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
5217 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
5219 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
5221 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
5222 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
5223 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
5224 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
5225 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
5226 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
5227 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
5228 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
5229 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
5230 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
5231 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
5233 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
5234 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
5235 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
5236 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
5237 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
5238 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
5240 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
5241 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
5243 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
5244 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
5245 Romanian locale data
5246 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
5248 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
5249 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
5251 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
5252 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
5253 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
5254 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
5256 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
5258 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
5259 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
5260 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
5261 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
5262 when using RTLD_NEXT
5263 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
5264 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
5265 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
5266 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
5267 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
5268 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
5269 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
5270 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
5271 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
5273 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5274 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5275 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5276 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
5278 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
5280 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
5282 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
5283 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
5284 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
5285 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
5286 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
5287 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
5289 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
5290 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
5292 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
5293 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
5295 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
5297 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
5299 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
5300 pointers and lengths in error-case.
5301 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
5302 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
5303 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
5304 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
5305 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
5306 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
5307 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
5308 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
5309 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
5310 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
5311 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
5312 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
5314 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
5316 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
5317 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
5318 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
5319 response to getaddrinfo
5320 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
5321 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
5322 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
5323 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
5324 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
5325 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
5327 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
5328 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
5329 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
5331 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
5332 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
5333 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
5334 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
5336 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
5337 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
5338 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
5340 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
5341 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
5342 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
5343 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
5344 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
5345 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
5346 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
5347 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
5349 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
5350 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
5351 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
5353 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
5354 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
5355 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
5356 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
5357 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
5358 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
5359 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
5360 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
5361 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
5362 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
5363 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
5364 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
5365 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
5367 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
5368 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
5369 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
5370 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
5372 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
5373 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
5375 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
5376 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
5377 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
5378 AS not supporting AVX512
5379 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
5381 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5382 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
5384 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
5385 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
5386 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
5387 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
5388 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
5390 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
5391 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
5393 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
5394 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
5395 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
5396 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5397 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5398 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
5399 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5400 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
5401 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
5403 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5404 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5405 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5406 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5407 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5408 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
5409 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
5410 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
5411 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
5412 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
5413 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
5414 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
5415 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
5417 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
5418 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
5419 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
5420 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
5421 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
5423 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
5424 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
5426 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
5427 "invalid" exceptions
5428 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
5429 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
5430 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
5431 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
5432 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
5433 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
5434 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
5435 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
5436 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
5440 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
5441 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
5442 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
5443 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
5444 89, 16061, and 18568.
5446 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
5447 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
5448 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
5449 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
5450 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
5451 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
5452 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
5454 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
5455 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
5456 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
5458 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
5459 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
5460 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
5461 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
5462 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
5463 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
5464 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
5466 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
5467 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
5468 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
5469 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
5470 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
5471 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
5472 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
5475 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
5476 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
5477 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
5478 independent of the GNU C Library.
5480 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5481 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
5483 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5484 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5485 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5486 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5487 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5490 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5491 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
5493 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5494 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5495 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5496 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5497 defining their own copy.
5499 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5500 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5501 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5503 Security related changes:
5505 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5506 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5508 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5509 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5510 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5511 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5514 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5515 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5517 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5518 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5520 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5521 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
5522 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
5524 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5525 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5526 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5527 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5528 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5529 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5530 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5531 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5532 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5533 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5534 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5535 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5536 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5538 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5540 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5541 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5542 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5543 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5544 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5545 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5547 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
5548 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
5549 overflow/underflow errors
5550 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5552 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5553 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5554 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5555 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5556 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5557 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5559 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5560 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5561 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5562 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5563 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5564 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5565 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5566 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5567 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5569 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5571 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5572 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5573 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5575 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5576 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5577 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5578 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5579 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5581 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5582 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5584 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5585 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5586 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5587 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5588 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5589 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5590 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5591 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5593 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5594 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5595 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5596 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5597 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5599 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5600 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5602 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5603 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5604 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5605 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5606 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5608 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5609 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5610 (related to lock elision)
5611 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5612 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5613 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5614 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5616 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5617 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5618 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5619 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5620 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5621 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5622 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5623 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5624 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5625 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5626 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5627 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5628 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5629 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5630 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5631 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5632 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5633 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5634 contains a vector instruction exception.
5635 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5636 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5638 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5639 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5640 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5641 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5642 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5644 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5646 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5647 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5649 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5650 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5651 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5652 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5653 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5655 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5656 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5657 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5658 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5659 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5660 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5661 statically too large
5662 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5663 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5664 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5665 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5666 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5667 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5668 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5669 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5670 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5672 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5673 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5674 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5675 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5676 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5677 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5678 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5680 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5681 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5682 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5683 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5685 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5686 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5687 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5688 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5689 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5690 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5692 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5693 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5694 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5695 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5696 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5697 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5699 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5700 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5701 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5702 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5703 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5704 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5705 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5706 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5708 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5709 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5710 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5711 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5712 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5713 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5714 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5715 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5716 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5718 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5720 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5721 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5722 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5724 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5725 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5726 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
5727 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
5728 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5729 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5730 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5731 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5732 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5733 pthread_setaffinity_np
5734 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5735 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5736 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5737 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5738 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5740 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5741 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5742 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5743 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5744 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5745 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5746 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5748 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5749 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5750 for C99-based standards
5751 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5752 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5754 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5755 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5756 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5758 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5759 "inexact" exceptions
5760 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5762 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5763 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5764 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5765 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5767 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5768 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5769 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5770 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5771 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5772 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5773 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5774 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5775 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5776 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5778 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5779 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5780 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5781 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5783 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5784 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5785 error on 32-bit architectures
5786 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5787 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5788 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5789 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5790 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5791 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5792 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5793 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5794 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5796 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5798 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5799 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5800 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5801 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5803 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5807 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5809 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5810 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5811 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5812 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5813 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5814 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5815 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5816 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5817 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5818 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5819 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5820 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5821 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5822 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5823 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5824 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5825 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5826 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5827 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5828 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5830 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5831 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5833 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5834 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5835 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5836 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5837 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5838 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5840 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5841 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5842 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5843 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5844 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5846 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5847 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5848 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5850 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5851 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5852 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5855 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5856 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5857 condition in some applications.
5859 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5860 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5862 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5863 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5864 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5865 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5866 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5868 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5869 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5870 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5871 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5873 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5874 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5875 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5877 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5878 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5880 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5881 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5882 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5884 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5885 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5886 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5890 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5892 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5893 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5894 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5895 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5896 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5897 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5898 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5899 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5900 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5901 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5904 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5905 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5906 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5907 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5910 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5911 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5912 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5913 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5914 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5915 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5917 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5919 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5920 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5921 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5923 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5924 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5925 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5926 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5927 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5928 effects being visible outside transactions.
5930 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5931 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5933 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5935 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5936 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5937 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5938 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5939 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5941 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5942 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5944 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5945 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5948 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5949 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5950 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5952 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5953 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5955 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5957 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5958 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5959 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5960 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5962 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5963 with newer versions of bison.
5965 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5966 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5967 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5968 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5969 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5970 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5971 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5972 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5973 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5974 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5975 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5976 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5977 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5979 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5980 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5981 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5982 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5983 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5987 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5989 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5990 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5991 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5992 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5993 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5994 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5995 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5996 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5997 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5998 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5999 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
6000 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
6001 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
6002 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
6003 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
6005 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6006 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
6007 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
6008 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
6009 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
6010 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
6011 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
6012 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
6013 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
6014 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
6016 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
6017 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
6018 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
6019 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
6020 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
6022 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
6024 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6025 can be used with is 2.6.32.
6027 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
6028 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
6029 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
6030 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
6031 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
6032 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
6034 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
6037 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
6038 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
6039 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
6040 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
6041 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
6042 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
6043 test macros defined.
6045 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
6047 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
6048 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
6049 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
6050 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
6051 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
6052 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
6055 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
6056 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
6057 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
6058 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
6061 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
6062 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
6063 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
6065 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
6066 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
6067 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
6068 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
6070 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
6071 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
6072 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
6073 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
6074 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
6075 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
6076 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
6079 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
6080 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
6081 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
6082 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
6083 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
6084 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
6085 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
6086 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
6087 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
6089 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
6090 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
6091 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
6092 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
6093 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
6094 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
6096 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
6097 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
6098 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
6099 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6103 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6105 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
6106 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
6107 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
6108 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
6109 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
6110 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
6111 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
6112 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
6113 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
6114 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
6115 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
6116 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
6117 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
6118 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
6119 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
6120 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
6121 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
6122 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
6124 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
6125 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
6127 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
6128 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
6129 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
6130 extension which uses __block.
6132 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
6133 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
6134 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
6135 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
6136 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
6138 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
6139 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
6140 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
6141 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
6144 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
6145 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
6146 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
6147 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
6148 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
6150 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
6151 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
6152 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
6154 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
6155 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
6156 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
6159 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
6160 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
6162 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
6163 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
6165 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
6167 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
6170 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
6172 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
6174 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
6175 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
6176 for which the C library was built.
6178 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
6179 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
6180 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
6181 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
6182 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
6183 in the following circumstances:
6185 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
6187 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
6188 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
6190 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
6191 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
6193 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
6194 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
6196 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
6198 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
6199 transcendental functions have been introduced.
6201 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
6203 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
6205 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
6207 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
6208 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
6209 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
6210 disable some of those declarations.
6212 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
6213 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
6214 that did nothing) has also been removed.
6216 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
6217 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
6219 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
6220 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
6221 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
6222 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
6223 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
6224 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
6225 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
6226 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
6227 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
6228 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
6229 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
6230 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
6231 require recompilation.
6235 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6237 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
6238 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
6239 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
6240 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
6241 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
6242 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
6243 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
6244 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
6245 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
6246 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
6247 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
6248 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
6249 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
6252 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
6253 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
6254 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
6255 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
6256 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
6257 understands and accepts the risks.
6259 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
6262 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
6263 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
6265 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
6266 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
6267 destructor calls to glibc.
6269 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
6272 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
6273 non-x86 architectures.
6275 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
6277 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
6279 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
6282 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6284 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
6287 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
6288 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6290 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
6292 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
6293 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
6295 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
6296 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
6298 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
6299 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
6300 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
6302 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
6303 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
6304 attributes of a process.
6306 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
6307 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
6308 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
6309 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
6312 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
6313 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6315 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
6319 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6321 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
6322 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
6323 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
6324 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
6325 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
6326 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
6327 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
6328 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
6329 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
6330 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
6331 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
6332 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
6333 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
6334 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
6335 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
6337 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
6339 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
6340 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
6342 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
6343 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
6345 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
6347 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
6348 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
6350 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6352 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
6353 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
6354 the internal function __secure_getenv.
6356 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
6357 Implemented by Gary Benson.
6359 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
6360 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
6362 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6363 can be used with is 2.6.16.
6365 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
6366 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
6368 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
6369 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
6370 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
6371 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
6373 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
6374 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
6376 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
6377 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
6380 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
6381 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
6382 information in --help and --version output.
6384 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
6385 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
6386 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
6388 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
6389 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
6390 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
6391 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
6392 when the mode is enabled.
6394 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
6395 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
6396 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
6397 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
6398 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
6399 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
6400 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
6402 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
6407 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6409 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
6410 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
6411 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
6412 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
6413 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
6414 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
6415 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
6416 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
6417 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
6418 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
6419 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
6420 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
6421 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
6422 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
6423 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
6424 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
6425 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
6426 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
6427 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
6428 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
6429 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
6430 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
6433 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
6434 configuring glibc with:
6435 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
6436 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
6437 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6441 + define static_assert
6443 + do not declare gets
6445 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
6447 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
6448 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
6449 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
6452 + timespec_get added
6454 + uchar.h support added
6456 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
6458 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6460 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
6462 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
6464 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
6465 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6467 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
6468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6470 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
6471 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
6472 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
6473 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
6474 existing applications.
6476 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
6477 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6480 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6481 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6482 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6484 * New locales: mag_IN
6486 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6487 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6488 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6489 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6490 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
6492 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6494 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6497 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6499 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6500 without a previously built glibc.
6502 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6503 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6505 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6506 now supported for ARM processors.
6508 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6509 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6510 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6512 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
6514 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6515 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6516 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6517 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
6519 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6520 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6521 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6522 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6524 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6525 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6526 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6527 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6528 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6530 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6531 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6532 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6533 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
6537 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6539 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6540 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6541 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6542 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6543 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6544 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6545 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
6547 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6550 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6551 and support for initgroups lookups.
6552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6554 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6555 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6557 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6558 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6560 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6561 on x86-32 and x86-64.
6562 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6564 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
6565 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6567 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6568 for x86-64 and x86-32.
6569 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6571 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6572 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6574 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6575 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6577 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6578 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6580 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6581 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6583 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6584 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6586 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6587 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6589 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
6591 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6594 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6595 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
6597 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
6601 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6603 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
6604 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
6605 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
6606 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
6607 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
6608 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6609 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
6610 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6611 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
6612 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
6614 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6615 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6616 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6617 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
6619 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
6620 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6621 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
6622 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6624 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
6625 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
6627 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
6628 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
6630 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
6632 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6635 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6636 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6637 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6638 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
6642 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6644 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6645 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6646 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6647 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6650 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
6652 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
6654 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6655 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
6656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6660 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6662 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6663 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6664 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6665 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
6666 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6667 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6668 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
6669 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
6671 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
6673 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6675 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6677 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6678 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6681 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6682 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6683 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6684 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6687 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
6691 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6693 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6694 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6695 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6696 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6697 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6698 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6700 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6704 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
6705 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6707 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6708 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6710 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6712 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
6713 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
6714 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
6715 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6717 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
6718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6720 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6722 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6724 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6725 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6727 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6728 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6730 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6733 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6734 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6735 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6736 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6737 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6738 necessity is every process again.
6739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6741 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6742 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6744 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6745 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6747 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6748 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6751 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6755 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6757 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6758 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6759 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6760 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6761 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6763 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6764 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6766 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6767 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6769 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6770 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6772 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6775 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6776 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6778 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6779 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6781 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6782 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6784 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6785 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6787 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6788 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6791 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6793 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6794 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6796 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6797 and extend existing format specifiers.
6798 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6800 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6803 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6804 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6805 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6806 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6807 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6812 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6814 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6815 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6816 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6817 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6818 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6820 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6821 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6823 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6824 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6826 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6827 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6829 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6830 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6833 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6834 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6836 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6838 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6839 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6841 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6842 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6843 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6846 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6847 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6849 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6851 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6853 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6857 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6859 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6860 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6861 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6862 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6863 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6864 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6865 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6867 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6869 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6871 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6872 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6874 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6876 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6879 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6882 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6883 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6884 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6886 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6887 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6889 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6890 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6892 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6893 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6895 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6896 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6900 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6902 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6903 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6904 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6905 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6906 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6908 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6909 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6911 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6913 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6914 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6915 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6917 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6918 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6920 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6921 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6923 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6925 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6926 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6928 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6929 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6931 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6932 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6934 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6936 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6939 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6940 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6943 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6944 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6948 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6950 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6951 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6952 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6953 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6954 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6955 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6956 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6959 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6961 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6963 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6967 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6969 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6970 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6971 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6972 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6973 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6974 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6975 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6976 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6977 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6979 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6980 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6981 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6983 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6984 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6986 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6988 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6990 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6991 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6992 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6993 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6996 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6997 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6998 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6999 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7001 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
7004 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7006 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
7009 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
7011 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
7012 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
7016 * More overflow detection functions.
7018 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
7019 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
7021 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
7022 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
7023 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
7024 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
7025 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
7026 by Masahide Washizawa.
7028 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
7029 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7031 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
7032 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
7033 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
7034 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
7036 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
7037 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
7039 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
7041 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
7042 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
7043 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
7045 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
7046 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
7048 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
7049 for compatibility with some other systems.
7051 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
7055 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7057 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
7058 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
7059 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
7060 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
7061 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
7062 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
7064 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
7066 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
7068 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
7072 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
7074 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
7075 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
7076 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
7077 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
7079 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
7083 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
7084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7086 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
7087 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
7088 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7090 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
7091 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
7093 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
7095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7097 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
7098 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
7101 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
7102 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
7103 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7105 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
7106 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7108 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
7109 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
7110 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
7111 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7113 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
7114 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
7115 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
7116 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
7118 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
7119 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
7120 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
7121 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
7122 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
7126 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
7127 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
7129 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
7130 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
7132 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
7133 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
7135 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
7136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7138 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
7141 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
7144 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
7149 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
7150 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
7151 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
7152 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
7153 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
7154 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
7155 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
7156 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
7157 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
7159 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
7160 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
7161 and are now also available on the Hurd.
7163 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
7165 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
7166 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
7168 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
7169 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
7171 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
7173 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
7174 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
7176 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
7177 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
7178 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
7179 of weak definition in ld.so.
7181 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
7182 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
7184 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
7185 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
7189 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
7192 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
7193 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
7195 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
7196 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
7198 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
7199 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
7201 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
7202 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
7203 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7205 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
7206 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
7208 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
7209 implementation of regex.
7211 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
7214 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
7215 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
7217 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
7218 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
7219 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
7221 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
7222 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
7224 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
7225 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
7226 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
7228 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
7229 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
7231 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
7232 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
7235 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
7239 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
7240 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
7242 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
7243 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
7247 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
7248 128-bit long double format.
7250 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
7251 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
7253 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
7255 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
7257 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
7260 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
7261 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
7263 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7267 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
7268 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
7270 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
7271 support Unicode 3.1.
7273 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
7274 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
7276 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
7278 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
7279 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
7280 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7282 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
7283 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
7285 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
7286 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
7288 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
7292 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
7293 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
7294 in float, double, and long double format.
7296 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
7297 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
7298 128-bit long double format.
7300 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
7301 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
7302 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
7303 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
7305 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
7306 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
7307 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7309 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
7310 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
7312 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
7313 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
7315 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
7316 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
7317 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
7319 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
7320 family of functions for Linux/S390.
7322 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
7323 of functions for Linux/x86.
7325 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
7329 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
7330 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
7331 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
7332 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
7333 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
7334 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
7337 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
7338 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
7340 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
7341 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
7342 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
7343 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7345 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
7350 only lists the names of the supported locales
7354 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
7355 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
7359 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
7360 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
7361 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
7362 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
7363 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
7365 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
7367 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
7369 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
7371 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
7372 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
7373 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
7375 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
7376 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
7378 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
7379 changed from the default "C" locale.
7381 * The usual bug fixes.
7385 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
7386 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
7389 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
7391 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
7393 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
7394 obviously requires a database library being available.
7396 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7398 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
7400 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
7401 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
7403 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
7405 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
7406 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
7409 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
7410 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
7411 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
7413 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
7414 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
7416 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
7417 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
7418 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
7420 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
7421 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
7422 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
7423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7425 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
7426 structures for the wide character tables.
7428 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7430 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
7432 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
7434 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
7437 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
7439 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
7441 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7443 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
7445 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
7447 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
7448 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
7449 implemented for Linux.
7451 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
7452 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
7453 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
7456 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
7459 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
7473 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
7475 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
7477 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
7479 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7481 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
7483 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
7485 * Update timezone data files.
7487 * lots of charmaps corrections
7489 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
7494 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7495 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7496 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7497 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7498 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7499 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7501 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
7502 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7504 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
7507 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
7508 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
7510 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
7512 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
7515 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
7517 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7518 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
7520 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7523 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
7524 functions from ISO C 9X.
7526 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7527 real valued functions.
7529 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
7531 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7533 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
7535 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
7537 * Optimized string functions have been added.
7539 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
7541 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7543 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7544 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7546 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7547 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7551 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
7553 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
7555 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
7557 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7559 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7561 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
7563 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7564 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
7567 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7568 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
7570 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
7572 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
7574 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7575 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7577 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
7579 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7582 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7583 latest draft standards.
7585 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7587 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7588 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7589 addseverity NEW: Unix98
7590 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
7591 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7592 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7593 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7594 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7595 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7596 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7597 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7598 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7599 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7600 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
7601 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7602 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7603 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
7604 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7605 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7606 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7608 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7609 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7610 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7611 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7612 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7619 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7620 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7621 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7622 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7623 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7625 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7626 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7627 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7628 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7629 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7630 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7634 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7635 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7641 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7642 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7643 clearerr_locked REMOVED
7644 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7646 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7647 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7648 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7658 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7659 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7661 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7662 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7667 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7668 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7671 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7672 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7676 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7677 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7679 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7680 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7681 endutxent NEW: Unix98
7683 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7684 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7688 fattach NEW: STREAMS
7689 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7693 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7694 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7695 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7696 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7697 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7699 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7700 ferror_locked REMOVED
7701 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7702 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7703 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7704 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7705 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7706 fflush_locked REMOVED
7710 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7711 fileno_locked REMOVED
7723 fputc_locked REMOVED
7724 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7725 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7730 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7734 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7736 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7737 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7741 getchar_locked REMOVED
7743 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7744 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7746 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7747 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7748 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7749 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7750 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7751 getutxent NEW: Unix98
7752 getutxid NEW: Unix98
7753 getutxline NEW: Unix98
7754 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7755 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7756 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7757 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7758 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7759 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7761 iconv_close NEW: iconv
7762 iconv_open NEW: iconv
7763 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7764 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7765 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7766 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7767 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7768 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7769 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7770 isastream NEW: STREAMS
7771 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7772 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7773 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7774 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7775 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7776 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7777 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7778 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7779 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7780 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7781 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7782 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7783 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7784 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7785 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7786 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7791 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7792 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7793 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7794 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7795 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7797 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7798 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7801 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7805 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7806 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7807 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7808 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7809 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7810 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7811 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7812 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7816 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7818 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7819 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7822 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7823 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7824 profil_counter REMOVED
7825 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7826 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7827 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7828 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7830 putchar_locked REMOVED
7831 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7833 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7834 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7838 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7839 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7840 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7841 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7843 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7844 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7846 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7847 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7848 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7850 sendfile NEW: kernel
7851 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7852 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7853 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7855 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7856 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7857 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7858 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7859 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7860 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7861 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7862 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7863 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7867 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7868 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7869 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7870 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7871 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7872 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7873 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7874 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7875 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7876 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7877 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7878 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7879 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7883 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7884 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7886 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7887 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7888 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7889 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7890 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7891 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7893 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7894 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7895 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7896 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7897 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7898 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7899 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7901 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7902 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7903 write_profiling REMOVED
7904 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7905 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7906 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7907 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7908 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7909 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7910 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7911 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7912 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7913 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7914 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7915 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7916 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7917 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7918 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7919 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7930 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7932 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7934 * rewrite of cbrt function
7936 * update of timezone data
7950 * add atoll function
7952 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7954 * fix math functions
7958 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7960 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7962 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7963 the ELF dynamic loader.
7965 * support for parallel builds is improved
7969 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7970 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7973 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7974 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7975 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7976 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7977 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7978 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7979 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7980 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7981 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7982 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7983 files in the ELF format.
7985 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7986 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7988 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7989 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7990 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7991 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7992 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7993 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7994 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7995 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7996 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7997 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7998 about dynamically linked binaries.
8000 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
8001 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
8002 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
8003 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
8004 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
8006 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
8007 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
8008 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
8009 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
8010 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
8012 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
8014 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
8015 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
8016 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
8017 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
8018 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
8019 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
8020 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
8021 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
8022 NSS services available.
8024 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
8025 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
8026 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
8028 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
8029 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
8030 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
8032 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
8033 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
8034 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
8035 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
8037 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
8038 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
8039 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
8041 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
8042 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
8043 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
8045 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
8046 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
8048 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
8049 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
8050 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
8051 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
8053 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
8054 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
8055 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
8057 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
8058 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
8059 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
8060 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
8061 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
8062 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
8063 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
8064 the header file <printf.h> for details.
8066 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
8067 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
8068 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
8069 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
8070 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
8071 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
8072 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
8074 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
8075 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
8076 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
8077 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
8078 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
8079 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
8081 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
8082 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8084 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
8085 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
8086 NSS scheme used in glibc.
8088 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
8090 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
8091 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
8092 their use is discouraged.
8094 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
8095 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
8097 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
8098 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
8100 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
8101 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
8103 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
8106 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
8107 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
8108 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
8109 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
8110 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
8112 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
8113 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
8114 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
8115 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
8117 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
8118 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
8120 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
8121 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
8122 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
8123 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
8126 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
8127 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
8129 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
8130 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
8132 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
8133 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
8134 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
8135 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
8137 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
8139 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
8140 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
8141 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
8143 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
8144 for arithmetic and string handling.
8146 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
8147 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
8148 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
8149 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
8151 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
8152 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
8153 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
8154 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
8155 programs already written to use it.)
8157 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
8160 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
8163 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
8164 a given effective group ID.
8166 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
8167 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
8168 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
8169 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
8171 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
8172 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
8173 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
8174 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
8175 doing the same thing.
8177 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
8178 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
8180 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
8181 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
8183 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
8185 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
8186 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
8187 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
8188 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
8189 `-ldb' to get these functions.
8191 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
8192 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
8194 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
8195 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
8196 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
8199 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
8201 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
8202 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
8205 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
8206 and writing the utmp file.
8208 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
8211 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
8212 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
8213 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
8215 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
8216 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
8218 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
8219 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
8222 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
8223 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
8224 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
8225 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
8227 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
8228 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
8229 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
8231 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
8232 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
8233 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
8236 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
8239 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
8242 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
8244 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
8245 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
8246 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
8250 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
8252 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
8253 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
8255 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
8256 want to put themselves in the background.
8258 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
8259 run without an operating system.
8261 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
8262 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
8264 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
8265 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
8267 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
8269 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
8270 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
8273 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
8276 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
8277 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
8281 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
8282 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
8283 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
8285 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
8286 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
8288 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
8289 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
8291 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
8293 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
8295 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
8298 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
8299 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
8300 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
8302 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
8304 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
8305 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
8306 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
8308 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
8309 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
8310 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
8311 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
8312 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
8315 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
8316 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
8317 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
8318 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
8319 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
8322 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
8323 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
8327 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
8328 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
8330 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
8331 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
8332 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
8334 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
8335 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
8336 address of the last character written.
8338 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
8339 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
8341 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
8342 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
8344 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
8345 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
8346 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
8347 you dereference this pointer.
8349 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
8350 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
8352 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
8353 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
8354 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
8355 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
8357 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
8358 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
8359 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
8360 EAGAIN in every system call function.
8364 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
8365 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
8366 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
8367 in Emacs or the `info' program.
8368 Please send comments on the manual to libc-alpha@sourceware.org.
8370 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
8372 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
8374 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
8375 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
8377 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
8378 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
8380 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
8381 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
8383 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
8384 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
8385 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
8386 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
8387 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
8389 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
8390 to the error code in `errno'.
8392 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
8393 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
8394 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
8397 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
8398 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
8399 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
8401 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
8402 uniquely-named temporary file.
8406 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
8407 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
8408 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
8410 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
8413 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
8414 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
8416 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
8420 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
8421 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
8422 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
8423 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
8425 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
8426 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
8427 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
8429 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
8430 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
8432 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
8433 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
8434 made itself into a shared library.
8436 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
8437 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
8439 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
8440 with limited length.
8442 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
8444 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
8446 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
8448 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
8449 function for traversing a directory tree.
8451 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
8452 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
8453 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
8454 formatted output directly to an obstack.
8456 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
8457 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
8459 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
8461 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
8462 things to your strings.
8464 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
8466 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
8467 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
8468 supporting those systems.
8470 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
8471 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
8472 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
8473 configuration files.
8475 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
8476 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
8478 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
8479 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8482 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8483 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8484 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8485 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8486 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8487 required storage is not available.
8489 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8490 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
8492 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8493 latest files released from Berkeley.
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