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+Version 2.29
+
+Major new features:
+
+* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
+ used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
+
+* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
+ to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
+ target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
+ 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
+ to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
+ configured location.
+
+* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
+
+* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
+ for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
+
+* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
+ indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
+ (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
+ suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
+ transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
+ each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
+ HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
+ process actually does not use HTM).
+
+* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
+ posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
+ posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
+ directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
+ posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
+ of the same name.
+
+* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
+ Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
+ pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
+ inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
+ In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
+
+* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
+ requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
+ supported:
+ - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
+ - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
+
+Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
+
+* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
+ tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
+
+* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
+ in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
+ the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
+ MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
+
+* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
+ struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
+ defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
+ used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
+ structures.
+
+Changes to build and runtime requirements:
+
+* Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
+
+* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
+ Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
+
+ Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
+ compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
+
+Security related changes:
+
+ CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
+ denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
+ calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
+
+The following bugs are resolved with this release:
+
+ [The release manager will add the list generated by
+ scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
+
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Version 2.28
Major new features:
+* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
+ Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
+ Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
+ collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
+ the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
+ uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
+ expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
+ is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
+ updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
+ collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
+ archive or binary locales.
+
+* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
+ Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
+ with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
+ branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
+ compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
+ feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
+ binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
+ capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
+ Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
+ x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
+ for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
+ validated for i686.
+
* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
(SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
- fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
fMxdivfNx functions.
-* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
- languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Ossetian,
+* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
+ languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
- support abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
+ support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
+ and Kashubian.
-* New locale added: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE), including the support of the
- nominative and genitive month names.
+* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
+ include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
patches.
for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
results in a load failure now.
+* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
+ implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
+ <threads.h>:
+
+ - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
+ thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
+
+ - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
+ mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
+
+ - call_once for function call synchronization.
+
+ - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
+ cnd_wait for conditional variables.
+
+ - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
+
+ Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
+
Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
- [The release manager will add the list generated by
- scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
+ [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
+ [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
+ [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
+ when __WORDSIZE != 64
+ [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
+ [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
+ [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
+ [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
+ [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
+ 14651
+ [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
+ [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
+ [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
+ [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
+ [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
+ conversion is given
+ [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
+ date
+ [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
+ [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
+ scope with -O1 and higher
+ [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
+ [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
+ [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
+ [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
+ [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
+ [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
+ [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
+ horrible machine code)
+ [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
+ last constant.
+ [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
+ [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
+ symbols
+ [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
+ [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
+ defined
+ [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
+ [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
+ [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
+ [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
+ [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
+ fpscr.c'
+ [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
+ idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
+ [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
+ stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
+ [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
+ the base address
+ [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
+ [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
+ [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
+ open_verify
+ [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
+ [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
+ [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
+ [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
+ malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
+ [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
+ [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
+ [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
+ [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
+ [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
+ [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
+ [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
+ [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
+ dlopen
+ [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
+ AT_SECURE=1
+ [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
+ [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
+ puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
+ [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
+ [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
+ [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
+ should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
+ for Spanish with CLDR
+ [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
+ by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
+ [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
+ [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
+ crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
+ [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
+ es_BO
+ [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
+ CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
+ [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
+ [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
+ `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
+ [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
+ dlopen failures
+ [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
+ to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
+ [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
+ through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
+ [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
+ [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
+ [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
+ [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
+ [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
+ [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
+ [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
+ [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
+ [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
+ [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
+ [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
+ [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
+ [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
+ makecontext
+ [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
+ [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
+ required
+ [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
+ [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
+ [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
+ [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
+ [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
+ [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
+ disabled
+ [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
+ failure
+ [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
+ [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
+ [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
+ [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
+ [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
+ [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
+ [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
+ patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
+ [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
+ and libc build with -Os)
+ [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
+ [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
+ [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
+ [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
+ [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
+ that changes /etc/passwd
+ [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
+ (CVE-2018-11237)
+ [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
+ [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
+ [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
+ posix/regcomp.c
+ [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
+ [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
+ [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
+ -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
+ [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
+ AT_SECURE
+ [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
+ [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
+ parser.c
+ [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
+ [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
+ [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
+ [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
+ directed rounding
+ [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
+ [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
+ '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
+ [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
+ lookup
+ [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
+ interposition
+ [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
+ DSO boundaries.
+ [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
+ <linux/time.h>
+ [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
+ checking
+ [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
+ [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
+ [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
+ [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
+ [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
+ [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
+ [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
+ [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
+ processors
+ [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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