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+Version 2.26
+
+[Add important changes here]
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+Security related changes:
+
+ [Add security related changes here]
+
+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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+\f
+Version 2.25
+
+* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
+ 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
+ TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
+ Library.
+
+* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
+ 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
+ from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
+ the GNU C Library.
+
+* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
+ 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
+ from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
+ the GNU C Library.
+
+* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
+ now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
+ Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
+ will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
+ mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
+ see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
+ just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
+ will not.
+
+ Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
+ defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
+ many years.
+
+* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
+ means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
+ will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
+
+ These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
+ collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
+ 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
+ presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
+ problem.
+
+* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
+ fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
+ femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
+
+* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
+ CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
+ UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
+ <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
+ INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
+ UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
+ INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
+ UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
+ UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
+ UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
+ UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
+ WINT_WIDTH.
+
+* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
+
+ - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
+
+ - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
+ fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
+ fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
+
+ - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
+ FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
+
+ - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
+ fminmagf, fminmagl.
+
+ - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
+
+ - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
+
+ - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
+ totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
+
+ - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
+
+ - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
+ setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
+
+* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
+ are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
+
+* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
+ It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
+ Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
+
+* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
+ intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
+ the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
+ are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
+ effects of the memory clear).
+
+* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
+ to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
+ that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
+ libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
+
+* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
+ float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
+ and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
+ the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
+ affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
+ if they are compiled or used with those options.
+
+* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
+ have been added.
+
+* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
+ bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
+ file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
+ network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
+ as large as several megabytes.
+
+* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
+ for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
+ been removed.
+
+* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
+ Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
+ get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
+ as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
+ will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
+ Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
+ be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
+
+* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
+ corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
+ “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
+ “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
+
+* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
+ flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
+ backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
+ Internet.
+
+* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
+ RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
+ They were already unimplemented.
+
+* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
+ _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
+ removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
+ 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
+
+* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
+ <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
+ decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
+ only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
+ is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
+
+* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
+ ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
+ <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
+ meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
+ thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
+
+* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
+ and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
+ The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
+ did not reflect that.
+
+* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
+ been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
+ that correct debugging information is generated for functions
+ selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
+ configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
+ enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
+ variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
+ 'gcc/config.gcc'.
+
+* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
+ structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
+ printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
+ using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
+
+* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
+ program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
+ flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
+ instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
+
+* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
+ the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
+ guarantees.
+
+* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
+ scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
+ make state changes.
+
+Security related changes:
+
+* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
+ have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
+ missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
+ (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
+ by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
+
+* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
+ dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
+ was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
+ question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
+ (CVE-2015-5180)
+
+The following bugs are resolved with this release:
+
+ [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
+ [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
+ protector-all
+ [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
+ [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
+ before it started waiting
+ [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
+ [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
+ [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
+ [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
+ wrong type
+ [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
+ library linked with pthread
+ [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
+ "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
+ [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
+ [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
+ [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
+ after being __libc_memalign()'d
+ [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
+ when it shouldnt
+ [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
+ not
+ [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
+ PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
+ [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
+ type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
+ [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
+ [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
+ [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
+ [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
+ [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
+ termination
+ [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
+ [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
+ [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
+ "implement"/"implementation" in several places
+ [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
+ [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
+ [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
+ causes a segmentation fault
+ [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
+ linking
+ [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
+ [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
+ uninitialized GOT
+ [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
+ versions
+ [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
+ [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
+ [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
+ is always true.
+ [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
+ [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
+ modes
+ [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
+ (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
+ [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
+ [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
+ [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
+ in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
+ [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
+ [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
+ libpthread.a
+ [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
+ [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
+ [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
+ _res_hconf
+ [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
+ information.
+ [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
+ penalty
+ [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
+ [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
+ cause transition penalty
+ [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
+ [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
+ [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
+ [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
+ [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
+ mcount.oS)
+ [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
+ Checking
+ [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
+ [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
+ <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
+ [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
+ [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
+ [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
+ multi-arch
+ [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
+ (RES_USEBSTRING)
+ [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
+ assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
+ [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
+ [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
+ -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
+ [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
+ [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
+ [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
+ [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
+ [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
+ [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
+ [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
+ [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
+ [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
+ glibc
+ [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
+ __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
+ [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
+ [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
+ [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
+ [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
+ [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
+ [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
+ [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
+ U+20AC), not same as GBK
+ [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
+ [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
+ [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
+ [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
+ [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
+ [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
+ [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
+ [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
+ RES_USE_INET6
+ [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
+ [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
+ [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
+ [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
+ [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
+ wrong condition
+ [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
+ [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
+ [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
+ [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
+ [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
+ [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
+ [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
+ clang
+ [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
+ [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
+ [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
+ subprocesses with AT_SECURE
+ [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
+\f
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