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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.30
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10Major new features:
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12* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
13 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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15* On Linux, the gettid function has been added.
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17Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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19* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
20 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
21 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
22 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
23 since glibc 2.17.
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25Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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27* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
28
29 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
30 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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32Security related changes:
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34 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
35 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
36 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
37 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
38 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
39 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
40 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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42The following bugs are resolved with this release:
43
44 [The release manager will add the list generated by
45 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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48Version 2.29
49
50Major new features:
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52* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
53 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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55* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
56 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
57 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
58 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
59 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
60 configured location.
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424c4f60 62* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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64* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
65 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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67* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
68 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
69 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
70 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
71 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
72 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
73 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
74 process actually does not use HTM).
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76* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
77 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
78 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
79 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
80 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
81 of the same name.
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83* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
84 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
85 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 86 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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87 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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89* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
90 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
91 supported:
92 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
93 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
94
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95* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
96 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
97 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
98 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
99 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
100 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
101 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
102
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103* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
104 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
105 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
106
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107Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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109* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
110 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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112* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
113 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
114 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
115 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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117* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
118 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
119 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
120 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
121 structures.
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123* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
124 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
125 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
126 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
127 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
128 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
129
130 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
131 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
132 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
133 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
134 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
135
136 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
137 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
138 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
139
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140Changes to build and runtime requirements:
141
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144* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
145 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
146
147 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
148 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
149
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150Security related changes:
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152 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
153 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
154 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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156 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
157 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
158 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
159 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
160 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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162 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
163 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
164 or command injection issues in applications.
165
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166The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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168 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
169 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
170 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
171 thousands
172 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
173 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
174 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
175 --param options)
176 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
177 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
178 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
179 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
180 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
181 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
182 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
183 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
184 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
185 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
186 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
187 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
188 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
189 pointer argument is non-NULL
190 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
191 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
192 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
193 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
194 multithreads call popen
195 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
196 and pthread_create fails.
197 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
198 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
199 constructor
200 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
201 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
202 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
203 source tree
204 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
205 float
206 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
207 one error
208 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
209 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
210 linker
211 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
212 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
213 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
214 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
215 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
216 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
217 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
218 filesystems
219 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
220 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
221 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
222 functions
223 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
224 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
225 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
226 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
227 have wrong type
228 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
229 wrong type
230 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
231 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
232 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
233 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
234 threads
235 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
236 start.S
237 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
238 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
239 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
240 powerpc64le
241 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
242 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
243 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
244 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
245 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
246 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
247 strftime
248 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
249 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
250 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
251 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
252 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
253 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
254 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
255 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
256 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
257 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
258 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
259 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
260 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
261 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
262 tcache size
263 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
264 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
265 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
266 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
267 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
268 (CVE-2018-19591)
269 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
270 nearest rounding mode
271 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
272 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
273 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
274 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
275 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
276 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
277 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
278 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
279 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
280 error
281 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
282 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
283 using GCC 8
284 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
285 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
286 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
287 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
288 ppc64le
289 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
290 expected result
291 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
292 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
293 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
294 sigaltstack
295 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
296 answers will be rejected)
297 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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300Version 2.28
301
302Major new features:
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304* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
305 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
306 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
307 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
308 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
309 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
310 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
311 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
312 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
313 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
314 archive or binary locales.
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316* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
317 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
318 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
319 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
320 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
321 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
322 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
323 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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324 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
325 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
326 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
327 validated for i686.
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330 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
331 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
332 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
333 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
334 field) to indicate such support is required.
335
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336* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
337 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
338 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
339
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340* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
341 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
342
343 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
344 fMxaddfNx functions.
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346 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
347 fMxsubfNx functions.
348
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349 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
350 fMxmulfNx functions.
351
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352 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
353 fMxdivfNx functions.
354
e607a352 355* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 356 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 357 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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358 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
359 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 361* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 362 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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364* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
365 patches.
366
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367* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
368 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
369 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
370 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
371 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
372 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
373 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
374 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
375
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376* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
377 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
378 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
379 the fstatat64 function.
380
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381* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
382 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
383 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
384 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
385 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
386 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
387 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
388 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
389 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
390
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391* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
392 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
393 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
394 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
395 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
396 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
397 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
398 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
399 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
400 results in a load failure now.
401
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403 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
404 <threads.h>:
405
406 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
407 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
408
409 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
410 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
411
412 - call_once for function call synchronization.
413
414 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
415 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
416
417 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
418
419 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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423* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
424 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
425 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
426
427* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
428 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
429 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
430 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
431 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
432 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
433
434* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
435 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
436 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
437 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
438 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
439 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
440 (Bug #1190.)
441
442* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
443 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
444 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
445 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
446 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
447 further explanation.
448
449 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
450 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
451 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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453* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
454
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455* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
456 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
457 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
458
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459* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
460 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
461 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
462 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
463
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464* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
465 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
466 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
467 for this function instead.
468
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470 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
471 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
472
473* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
474 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
475 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
476 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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479 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
480 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
481 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
482 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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485 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
486 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
487 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
488 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
489 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
490 such as libgcrypt.
491
492* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
493 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
494 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
495 enabled.
496
497* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
498 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
499 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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502 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
503 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
504 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
505 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
506 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
507
508 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
509 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
510 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
511 behavior in a future release.
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514
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517Security related changes:
518
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520 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
521 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
522 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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524 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
525 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
526
527 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
528 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
529 Izbyshev.
530
531 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
532 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
533 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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537 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
538 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
539 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
540 when __WORDSIZE != 64
541 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
542 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
543 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
544 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
545 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
546 14651
547 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
548 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
549 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
550 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
551 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
552 conversion is given
553 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
554 date
555 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
556 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
557 scope with -O1 and higher
558 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
559 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
560 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
561 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
562 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
563 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
564 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
565 horrible machine code)
566 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
567 last constant.
568 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
569 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
570 symbols
571 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
572 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
573 defined
574 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
575 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
576 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
577 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
578 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
579 fpscr.c'
580 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
581 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
582 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
583 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
584 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
585 the base address
586 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
587 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
588 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
589 open_verify
590 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
591 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
592 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
593 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
594 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
595 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
596 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
597 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
598 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
599 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
600 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
601 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
602 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
603 dlopen
604 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
605 AT_SECURE=1
606 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
607 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
608 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
609 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
610 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
611 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
612 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
613 for Spanish with CLDR
614 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
615 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
616 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
617 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
618 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
619 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
620 es_BO
621 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
622 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
623 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
624 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
625 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
626 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
627 dlopen failures
628 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
629 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
630 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
631 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
632 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
633 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
634 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
635 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
636 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
637 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
638 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
639 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
640 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
641 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
642 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
643 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
644 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
645 makecontext
646 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
647 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
648 required
649 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
650 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
651 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
652 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
653 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
654 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
655 disabled
656 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
657 failure
658 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
659 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
660 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
661 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
662 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
663 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
664 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
665 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
666 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
667 and libc build with -Os)
668 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
669 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
670 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
671 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
672 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
673 that changes /etc/passwd
674 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
675 (CVE-2018-11237)
676 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
677 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
678 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
679 posix/regcomp.c
680 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
681 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
682 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
683 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
684 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
685 AT_SECURE
686 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
687 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
688 parser.c
689 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
690 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
691 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
692 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
693 directed rounding
694 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
695 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
696 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
697 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
698 lookup
699 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
700 interposition
701 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
702 DSO boundaries.
703 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
704 <linux/time.h>
705 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
706 checking
707 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
708 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
709 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
710 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
711 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
712 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
713 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
714 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
715 processors
716 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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720
721Major new features:
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724 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 725 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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727 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
728 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
729 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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731 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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735 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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738
4cf82d23 739* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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741* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
742 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
743 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
744 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
745 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
746 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
747 from a security and performance perspective.
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750 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
751 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
752 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
753
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756 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
757 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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758 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
759
a23aa5b7 760* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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763 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
764 _Float128.
765
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767 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
768 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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773 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
774 pkey_get.
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778* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
779
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780* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
781 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
782 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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785 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
786 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
787 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
788 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
789 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
790 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
791
792 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
793 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
794 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
795 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
796 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
797 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
798 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
799
800 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
801 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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803 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
804 respectively.
805
806 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
807 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
808 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
809 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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811 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
812 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
813 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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816 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
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820 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
821 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
822
823 - rv64imac lp64
824 - rv64imafdc lp64
825 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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830 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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833 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
834 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
835 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
836 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
837 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
838 fix this.
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841 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
842 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
843
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845 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
846 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
847 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
848 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
849 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
850 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
851 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
852 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
853 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
854 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
855 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
856 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
857 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
858 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
859 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
860 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
861 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
862 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
863 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
864 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
865 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
866 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
867 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
868 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
869 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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872 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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875 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
876 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
877 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
878 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
879 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
880 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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883 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
884 exp10l for these functions instead.
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887 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
888 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
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891 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
892 ignored.
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895 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
896 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
897 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
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900 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
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903 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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906 programs.
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910* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
911 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
912 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
913 instead.
914
915 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
916 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
917 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
918 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
919 use, but predates the bits convention.
920
00cdcf5a
SP
921Changes to build and runtime requirements:
922
1faaf703
JB
923* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
924 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
925
926Security related changes:
927
403143e1
FW
928 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
929 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
930 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
931 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
932 script.)
00cdcf5a 933
822f523b
FW
934 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
935 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
936 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
937 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 938
914c9994
FW
939 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
940 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
941 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
942 of service.
943
15e84c63
AJ
944 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
945 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
946 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
947
37ac8e63
FW
948 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
949 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
950 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
951 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
952
8a0b17e4
FW
953 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
954 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
955 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
956 Qualys.
957
3ff3dfa5
FW
958 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
959 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
960 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
961 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
962 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
963
3e3c904d
AJ
964 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
965 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
966 current directory.
967
52a713fd
DL
968 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
969 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
970 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
971
4590634f
FW
972 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
973 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
974 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
975
71aa429b
FW
976 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
977 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
978 small, instead of NULL.
979
00cdcf5a
SP
980The following bugs are resolved with this release:
981
242cbc90
DL
982 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
983 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
984 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
985 locale
986 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
987 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
988 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
989 cases
990 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
991 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
992 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
993 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
994 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
995 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
996 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
997 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
998 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
999 "Bangla"
1000 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1001 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1002 width Latin characters
1003 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1004 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1005 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1006 letters
1007 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1008 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1009 (CVE-2009-5064)
1010 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1011 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1012 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1013 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1014 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1015 if malloc succeeded
1016 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1017 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1018 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1019 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1020 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1021 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1022 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1023 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1024 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1025 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1026 U+309A
1027 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1028 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1029 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1030 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1031 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1032 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1033 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1034 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1035 for Nicaragua
1036 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1037 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1038 are not found.
1039 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1040 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1041 access
1042 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1043 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1044 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1045 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1046 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1047 __regcall calling convention
1048 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1049 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1050 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1051 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1052 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1053 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1054 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1055 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1056 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1057 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1058 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1059 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1060 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1061 locale
1062 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1063 protector=all
1064 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1065 wcwidth
1066 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1067 consistency check failures
1068 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1069 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1070 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1071 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1072 PIE
1073 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1074 locales
1075 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1076 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1077 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1078 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1079 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1080 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1081 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1082 on memory allocation failure
1083 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1084 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1085 the suspect)
1086 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1087 default (i386)
1088 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1089 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1090 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1091 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1092 instead of EAI_NODATA
1093 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1094 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1095 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1096 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1097 implementation
1098 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1099 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1100 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1101 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1102 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1103 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1104 allocation in syscall loops)
1105 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1106 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1107 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1108 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1109 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1110 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1111 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1112 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1113 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1114 occur with -O3
1115 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1116 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1117 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1118 amounts)
1119 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1120 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1121 niu_NZ
1122 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1123 checks
1124 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1125 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1126 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1127 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1128 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1129 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1130 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1131 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1132 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1133 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1134 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1135 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1136 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1137 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1138 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1139 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1140 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1141 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1142 parsing after OOM
1143 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1144 object
1145 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1146 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1147 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1148 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1149 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1150 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1151 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1152 ppc64le
1153 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1154 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1155 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1156 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1157 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1158 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1159 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1160 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1161 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1162 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1163 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1164 math_force_eval
1165 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1166 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1167 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1168 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1169 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1170 the svid compat wrapper
1171 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1172 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1173 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1174 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1175 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1176 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1177 --verbose.
1178 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1179 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1180 to 2.26
1181 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1182 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1183 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1184 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1185 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1186 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1187 (CVE-2017-15804)
1188 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1189 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1190 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1191 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1192 failure."
1193 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1194 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1195 -m32
1196 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1197 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1198 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1199 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1200 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1201 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1202 inside the ASCII printable range
1203 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1204 -mlong-double-64
1205 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1206 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1207 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1208 Internet
1209 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1210 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1211 backslash
1212 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1213 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1214 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1215 heaps in an arena
1216 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1217 networking interface
1218 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1219 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1220 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1221 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1222 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1223 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1224 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1225 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1226 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1227 order
1228 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1229 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1230 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1231 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1232 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1233 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1234 same as for Croatian
1235 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1236 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1237 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1238 for initial thread"
1239 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1240 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1241 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1242 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1243 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1244 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1245 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1246 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1247 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1248 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1249 modified in case of success
1250 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1251 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1252 success
1253 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1254 stack-protector=all
1255 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1256 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1257 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1258 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1259 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1260 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1261 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1262 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1263 adding it on top
1264 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1265 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1266 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1267 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1268 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1269 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1270 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1271 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1272 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1273 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1274 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1275 elision and tunables
1276 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1277 "invalid" exception
1278 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1279 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1280 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1281 exception
1282 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1283 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1284 power4
1285 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1286 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1287 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1288 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1289 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1290 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1291 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1292 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1293 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1295\f
1296Version 2.26
1297
2b2ccd0c
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1298Major new features:
1299
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1300* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1301 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1302 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1303 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1304 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1305 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1306 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1307
925fac77
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1308* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1309 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1310 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1311 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1312 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1313 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1314 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 1315
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1316* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1317 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1318 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1319
2b2ccd0c 1320* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 1321
7e368000
JM
1322 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1323 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1324 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 1325
7e368000
JM
1326 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1327 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1328 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1329 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1330 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1332 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1333 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1334 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1336* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1337 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1339* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1340 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1341 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1342 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1344* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1345 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1346 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1347 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1349* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1350 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1351 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1352 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1354* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1355 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1356 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1357
2b2ccd0c 1358* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1359 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1360 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1361 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1362
2b2ccd0c 1363 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1364 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1365 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1366 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1367 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1368
1369 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1370 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1371 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1372 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1373 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1374 interfaces should be used instead.
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1376Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1377
1378* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1379 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1380 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1381 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1382 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1383 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1384 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1385 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1386
1387* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1388 removed.
1389
1390* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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1392 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1393 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1394
1395* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1396 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1397 default.
1398
1399 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1400 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1401 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1403 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1405 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1406 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1407 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1408 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1409
1410* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1411 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1412 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1413 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1414
1415* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1416 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1418* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1419 exported by accident.
1420
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1421* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1422 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1423 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1424
1425* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1426 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1427 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1428 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1429
1430* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1431
1432* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1433
1434* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1435 free instead.
1436
1437* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1438 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1439
1440* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1441 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1442
1443* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1444 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1445 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1446 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1447 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1448 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1449 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1450 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1451
1452* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1453 synced with the kernel:
1454
1455 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1456 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1457
1458 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1459 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1460 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1461
1462 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1463 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1464
1465Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1466
1467* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1468 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1469 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1470
7e368000 1471* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1473* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
1474 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1475
1476 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1477 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1478 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1479 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1480 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1482Security related changes:
1483
e14a2772 1484* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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1485 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1486
1487* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1488 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1489
1490* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1491 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1492 (CVE-2010-3192).
1493
1494* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1495 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1497The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1498
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1499 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1500 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1501 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1502 fields
1503 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1504 (CVE-2010-3192)
1505 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1506 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1507 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1508 ld.bfd is available
1509 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1510 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1511 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1512 x86 and other generic code
1513 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1514 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1515 incorrect
1516 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1517 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1518 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1519 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1520 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1521 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1522 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1523 resolver
1524 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1525 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1526 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1527 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1528 chillu characters
1529 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1530 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1531 receiving data
1532 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1533 whitespace
1534 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1535 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1536 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1537 for Peru
1538 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1539 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1540 failures consistently
1541 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1542 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1543 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1544 frame-pointer on i386
1545 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1546 register
1547 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1548 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1549 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1550 generic c code is used
1551 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1552 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1553 around 4000
1554 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1555 (CVE-2017-12133)
1556 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1557 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1558 with -lieee
1559 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1560 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1561 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1562 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1563 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1564 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1565 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1566 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1567 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1568 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1569 remove()
1570 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1571 checked for errors.
1572 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1573 new posix_spawn implementation
1574 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1575 leads to lower CPU frequency
1576 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1577 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1578 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1579 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1580 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1581 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1582 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1583 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1584 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1585 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1586 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1587 not support gethostbyname4_r
1588 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1589 switching
1590 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1591 arenas
1592 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1593 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1594 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1595 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1596 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1597 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1598 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1599 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1600 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1601 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1602 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1603 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1604 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1605 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1606 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1607 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1608 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1609 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1610 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1611 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1612 retry value
1613 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1614 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1615 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1616 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1617 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1618 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1619 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1620 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1621 [21537] libc:
1622 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1623 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1624 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1625 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1626 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1627 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1628 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1629 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1630 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1631 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1632 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1633 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1634 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1635 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1636 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1637 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1638 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1639 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1640 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1641 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1642 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1643 issue on x86-64
1644 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1645 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1646 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1647 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1648 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1649 construction
1650 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1651 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1652 between_2_3
1653 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1654 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1655 conditions
1656 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1657 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1658 Hindi Locale
1659 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1660 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1661 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1662 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1663 locale
1664 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1665 leading to relocation crash
1666 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1667 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1668 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1669 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1670 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1671 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1672 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1673 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1674 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1675 locale
1676 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1677 locale
1678 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1679 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1680 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1681 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1682 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1683 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1684 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1685 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1686 strings
1687 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1688 protector=all
1689 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1690 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1691 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1692 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1693 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1694 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1695 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1696 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1697 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1698 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1699 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1700 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1701 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1702 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1703 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1704 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1705 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1706 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1707 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1708 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1709 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1710 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1711 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1712 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1713 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1714 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1715 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1716 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1717 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1718 with unicode 9.0
1719 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1720 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1721 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1722 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1723 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1728* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1729 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1730 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1731 Library.
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1734 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1735 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1737
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1738* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1739 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1740 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1741 the GNU C Library.
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1743* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1744 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1745 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1746 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1747 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1748 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1749 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1750 will not.
1751
1752 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1753 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1754 many years.
1755
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1757 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1758 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1759
1760 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1761 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1762 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1763 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1764 problem.
1765
ec94343f 1766* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1767 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1768 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1770* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1771 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1772 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1773 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1774 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1775 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1776 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1777 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1778 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1779 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1780 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1781 WINT_WIDTH.
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1783* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1784
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1785 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1786
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1787 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1788 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1789 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1790
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1791 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1792 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1793
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1794 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1795 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1796
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1797 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1798
29cb9293 1799 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1801 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1802 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1803
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1804 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1805
eb3c12c7 1806 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1807 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1809* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1810 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1811
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1812* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1813 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1814 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1815
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1816* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1817 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1818 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1819 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1820 effects of the memory clear).
1821
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1822* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1823 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1824 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1825 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1826
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1827* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1828 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1829 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1830 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1831 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1832 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1834* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1835 have been added.
1836
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1837* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1838 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1839 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1840 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1841 as large as several megabytes.
1842
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1843* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1844 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1845 been removed.
1846
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1847* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1848 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1849 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1850 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1851 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1852 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1853 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1854
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1855* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1856 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1857 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1858 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1859
099191b1 1860* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1861 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1862 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1863 Internet.
1864
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1865* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1866 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1867 They were already unimplemented.
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1869* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1870 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1871 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1872 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1873
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1874* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1875 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1876 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1877 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1878 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1879
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1880* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1881 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1882 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1883 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1884 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1885
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1886* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1887 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1888 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1889 did not reflect that.
1890
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1891* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1892 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1893 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1894 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1895 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1896 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1897 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1898 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1899
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1900* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1901 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1902 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1903 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1904
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1905* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1906 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1907 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1908 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1909
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1910* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1911 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1912 guarantees.
1913
1914* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1915 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1916 make state changes.
1917
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1918Security related changes:
1919
fc82b0a2 1920* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1921 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1922 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1923 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1924 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1926* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1927 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1928 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1929 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1930 (CVE-2015-5180)
1931
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1932The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1933
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1934 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1935 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1936 protector-all
1937 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1938 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1939 before it started waiting
1940 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1941 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1942 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1943 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1944 wrong type
1945 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1946 library linked with pthread
1947 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1948 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1949 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1950 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1951 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1952 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1953 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1954 when it shouldnt
1955 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1956 not
1957 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1958 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1959 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1960 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1961 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1962 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1963 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1964 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1965 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1966 termination
1967 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1968 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1969 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1970 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1971 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1972 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1973 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1974 causes a segmentation fault
1975 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1976 linking
1977 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1978 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1979 uninitialized GOT
1980 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1981 versions
1982 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1983 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1984 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1985 is always true.
1986 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1987 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1988 modes
1989 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1990 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1991 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1992 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1993 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1994 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1995 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1996 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1997 libpthread.a
1998 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1999 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2000 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2001 _res_hconf
2002 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2003 information.
2004 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2005 penalty
2006 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2007 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2008 cause transition penalty
2009 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2010 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2011 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2012 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2013 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2014 mcount.oS)
2015 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2016 Checking
2017 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2018 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2019 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2020 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2021 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2022 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2023 multi-arch
2024 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2025 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2026 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2027 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2028 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2029 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2030 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2031 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2032 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2033 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2034 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2035 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2036 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2037 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2038 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2039 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2040 glibc
2041 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2042 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2043 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2044 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2045 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2046 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2047 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2048 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2049 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2050 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2051 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2052 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2053 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2054 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2055 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2056 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2057 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2058 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2059 RES_USE_INET6
2060 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2061 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2062 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2063 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2064 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2065 wrong condition
2066 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2067 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2068 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2069 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2070 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2071 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2072 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2073 clang
2074 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2075 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2076 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2077 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2078 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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2080Version 2.24
2081
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2082* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2083 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2084 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2085 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2086 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2087 architectures.
2088
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2089* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2090 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2091 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2092
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2093* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2094 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2095
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2096* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2097 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2098 instead of “union wait”.
2099
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2100* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2101 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2102 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2103 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2104 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2105 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2106 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2107
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2108* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2109 API.
2110
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2111* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2112 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2113 drop it.
6a54bcda 2114
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2115* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2116 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2117 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2118 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2119 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2120 extensions.
2121
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2122Security related changes:
2123
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2124* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2125 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2126 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2127
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2128* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2129 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2130 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2131 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2132
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2133* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2134 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2135 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2136
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2137* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2138 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2139 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2140
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2141* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2142 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2143 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2144 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2145
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2146The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2147
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2148 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2149 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2150 of MS-DOS.
2151 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2152 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2153 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2154 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2155 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2156 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2157 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2158 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2159 CLDR data
2160 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2161 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2162 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2163 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2164 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2165 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2166 romanisation
2167 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2168 and +/-
2169 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2170 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2171 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2172 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2173 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2174 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2175 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2176 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2177 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2178 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2179 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2180 all locales
2181 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2182 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2183 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2184 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2185 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2186 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2187 execute
2188 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2189 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2190 -Wsystem-headers
2191 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2192 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2193 Romanian locale data
2194 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2195 symbol
2196 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2197 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2198 language
2199 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2200 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2201 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2202 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2203 machine
2204 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2205 description
2206 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2207 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2208 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2209 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2210 when using RTLD_NEXT
2211 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2212 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2213 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2214 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2215 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2216 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2217 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2218 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2219 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2220 Excavator core
2221 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2222 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2223 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2224 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2225 double range
2226 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2227 part zero incorrect
2228 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2229 equality tests
2230 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2231 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2232 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2233 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2234 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2235 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2236 glibc-2.22
2237 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2238 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2239 'tst-numeric.c'
2240 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2241 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2242 low part
2243 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2244 result
2245 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2246 unaligned stack
2247 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2248 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2249 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2250 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2251 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2252 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2253 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2254 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2255 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2256 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2257 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2258 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2259 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2260 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2261 modes
2262 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2263 server addresses
2264 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2265 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2266 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2267 response to getaddrinfo
2268 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2269 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2270 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2271 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2272 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2273 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2274 sometimes incorrect
2275 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2276 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2277 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2278 record types
2279 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2280 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2281 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2282 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2283 (CVE-2016-3075)
2284 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2285 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2286 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2287 resolving symbols
2288 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2289 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2290 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2291 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2292 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2293 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2294 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2295 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2296 gethosts
2297 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2298 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2299 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2300 (CVE-2016-3706)
2301 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2302 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2303 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2304 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2305 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2306 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2307 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2308 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2309 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2310 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2311 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2312 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2313 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2314 executable
2315 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2316 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2317 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2318 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2319 XPG3
2320 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2321 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2322 (CVE-2016-4429)
2323 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2324 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2325 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2326 AS not supporting AVX512
2327 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2328 sNaN argument
2329 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2330 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2331 argument
2332 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2333 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2334 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2335 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2336 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2337 eax=0x80000001
2338 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2339 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2340 subnormals
2341 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2342 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2343 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2344 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2345 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2346 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2347 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2348 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2349 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2350 input
2351 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2352 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2353 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2354 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2355 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2356 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2357 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2358 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2359 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2360 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2361 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2362 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2363 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2364 double rounding
2365 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2366 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2367 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2368 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2369 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2370 (Only arm/linux)
2371 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2372 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2373 fallbacks
2374 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2375 "invalid" exceptions
2376 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2377 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2378 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2379 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2380 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2381 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2382 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2383 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2384 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 2385\f
aeb47bbc
DM
2386Version 2.23
2387
23256f5e
MF
2388* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2389 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2390 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2391 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2392 89, 16061, and 18568.
2393
2359035a
FW
2394* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2395 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2396 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2397 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2398 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2399 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2400 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2401
8b7b7f75
MW
2402* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2403 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2404 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2405
2eecc8af
FW
2406* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2407 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2408 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2409 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2410 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2411 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2412 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2413
a62719ba
FW
2414* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2415 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2416 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2417 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2418 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2419 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
2420 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2421 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 2422
bc148ca1
MF
2423* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2424 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2425 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2426 independent of the GNU C Library.
2427
1c70b6f1
ZW
2428* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2429 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 2430
eed3e1eb
JM
2431* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2432 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2433 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2434 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2435 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2436 Linux kernel.
2437
1efad39b
SL
2438* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2439 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 2440
d709042a
JM
2441* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2442 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2443 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2444 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2445 defining their own copy.
2446
b08b4218
JM
2447* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2448 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2449 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 2450
8f5e8b01
JM
2451Security related changes:
2452
6400ae6e
FW
2453* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2454 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2455
2456* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2457 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2458 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2459 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2460 (CVE-2015-8777)
2461
2462* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2463 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2464
2465* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2466 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2467
8f5e8b01
JM
2468* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2469 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2470 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 2471
e9db92d3
CD
2472* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2473 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2474 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2475 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2476 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2477 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2478 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2479 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2480 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2481 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2482 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2483 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2484 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2485
ad372e29 2486The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 2487
ad372e29
AZ
2488 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2489 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2490 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2491 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2492 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2493 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2494 use `mkstemp'
2495 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2496 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2497 overflow/underflow errors
2498 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2499 overflow/underflow
2500 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2501 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2502 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2503 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2504 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2505 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2506 are not contiguous
2507 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2508 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2509 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2510 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2511 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2512 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2513 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2514 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2515 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2516 all exceptions
2517 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2518 arguments
2519 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2520 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2521 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2522 should include
2523 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2524 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2525 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2526 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2527 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2528 GNU/Linux
2529 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2530 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2531 arguments
2532 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2533 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2534 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2535 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2536 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2537 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2538 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2539 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2540 rounding results
2541 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2542 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2543 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2544 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2545 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2546 fails
2547 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2548 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2549 block boundary
2550 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2551 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2552 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2553 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2554 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2555 4.7?
2556 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2557 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2558 (related to lock elision)
2559 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2560 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2561 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2562 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2563 (CVE-2015-8779)
2564 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2565 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2566 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2567 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2568 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2569 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2570 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2571 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2572 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2573 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2574 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2575 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2576 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2577 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2578 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2579 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2580 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2581 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2582 contains a vector instruction exception.
2583 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2584 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2585 locales
2586 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2587 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2588 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2589 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2590 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2591 missing break ?
2592 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2593 32bit processes
2594 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2595 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2596 infinity
2597 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2598 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2599 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2600 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2601 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2602 be forced unloaded
2603 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2604 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2605 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2606 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2607 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2608 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2609 statically too large
2610 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2611 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2612 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2613 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2614 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2615 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2616 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2617 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2618 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2619 FUTEX_SHARED
2620 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2621 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2622 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2623 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2624 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2625 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2626 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2627 opendir()
2628 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2629 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2630 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2631 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2632 signgam
2633 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2634 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2635 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2636 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2637 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2638 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2639 dependencies
2640 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2641 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2642 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2643 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2644 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2645 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2646 (CVE-2015-8776)
2647 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2648 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2649 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2650 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2651 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2652 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2653 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2654 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2655 contention
2656 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2657 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2658 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2659 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2660 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2661 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2662 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2663 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2664 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2665 rounding modes
2666 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2667 ILP32
2668 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2669 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2670 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2671 threshold
2672 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2673 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2674 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2675 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2676 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2677 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2678 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2679 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2680 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2681 pthread_setaffinity_np
2682 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2683 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2684 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2685 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2686 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2687 prelink
2688 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2689 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2690 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2691 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2692 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2693 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2694 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2695 bits/mathcalls.h
2696 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2697 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2698 for C99-based standards
2699 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2700 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2701 math-only
2702 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2703 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2704 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2705 disabled
2706 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2707 "inexact" exceptions
2708 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2709 arguments
2710 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2711 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2712 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2713 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2714 rules
2715 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2716 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2717 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2718 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2719 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2720 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2721 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2722 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2723 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2724 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2725 from 32bit
2726 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2727 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2728 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2729 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2730 subnormals
2731 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2732 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2733 error on 32-bit architectures
2734 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2735 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2736 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2737 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2738 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2739 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2740 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2741 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2742 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2743 -Os
2744 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2745 CPU's.
2746 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2747 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2748 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2749 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2750 architectures
2751 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2753Version 2.22
2754
2755* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2756
3df5cd98 2757 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
2758 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2759 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2760 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2761 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2762 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2763 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2764 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2765 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2766 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2767 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2768 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2769 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2770 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2771 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2772 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2773 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2774 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
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2775 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2776 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2777
f7fba805
SL
2778* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2779 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2780
2959eda9
AS
2781* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2782 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2783 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2784 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2785 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2786 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2787
42261ad7
FW
2788* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2789 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2790 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2791 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2792 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2793
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AM
2794* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2795 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2796 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2797
4a4839c9
AO
2798* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2799 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2800 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2801 17998.
2802
b13b96ca
AS
2803* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2804 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2805 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2806
2807* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2808 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2809 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2810 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2811 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2812 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2813 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2814 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2815
2816* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2817 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2818 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2819 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2820
2821* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2822 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2823 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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RM
2824
2825* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2826 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
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2827
2828* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2829 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2830 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2831
a03ba363 2832 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
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2833 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2834 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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2836Version 2.21
2837
2838* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2839
042e1521 2840 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2841 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2842 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2843 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2844 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2845 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2846 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2847 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2848 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2849 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2850 17892.
2851
46d54873
FW
2852* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2853 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2854 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2855 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2856 intended.
042e1521
CD
2857
2858* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2859 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2860 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2861 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2862 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2863 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2864
522e6ee3
CLT
2865* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2866
d3b00f46
AZ
2867* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2868 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2869 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2870
8d2c0a59
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2871* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2872 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2873 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2874 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2875 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2876 effects being visible outside transactions.
2877
dc400d7b
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2878* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2879 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2880
0f9dfe04
L
2881* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2882
a39208bd
CD
2883* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2884 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2885 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
2886 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2887 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2888
a5357b7c
JL
2889* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2890 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2891
e54db0ea
AM
2892* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2893 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2894 format.
11e3417a 2895
4863355a
JM
2896* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2897 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2898 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2899
a4ecc9eb
JM
2900* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2901 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2902
0d560bbf 2903* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
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RM
2904
2905* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2906 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2907 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2908 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2909
2910* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2911 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2912
2913* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2914 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2915 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2916 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2917 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2918 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2919 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2920 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2921 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2922 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2923 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2924 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2925 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2926
2927 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2928 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2929 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2930 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2931 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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d5b396c1
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2933Version 2.20
2934
2935* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2936
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2937 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2938 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2939 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2940 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2941 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2942 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2943 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2944 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2945 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2946 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2947 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2948 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2949 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2950 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2951 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2952
95ee7fb1
SL
2953* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2954 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2955 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2956 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2957 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2958 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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SL
2959 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2960 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2961 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2962 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2963
0961f7e1
JL
2964* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2965 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2966 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2967 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2968 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2969
f940b965
RE
2970* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2971
d0f5b3f8
JM
2972* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2973 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2974
d6fe5e58
JM
2975* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2976 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2977 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2978 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2979 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2980 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2981
464263cc
JM
2982* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2983 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2984
2985* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2986 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2987 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2988 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2989 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2990 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2991 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2992
2993* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2994
2995* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2996 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2997 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2998 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2999 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3000 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3001 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3002
3003* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3004 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3005 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3006 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3007 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3008
3009* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3010 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3011 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3012
3013* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3014 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3015 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3016 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3017
3018* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3019 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3020 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3021 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3022 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3023 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3024 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3025 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3026
3027* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3028 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3029 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3030 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3031 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3032 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3033 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3034 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3035 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3036
3037* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3038 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3039 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3040 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3041 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3042 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3043
3044* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3045 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3046 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3047 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3048\f
3049Version 2.19
3050
3051* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3052
fd2f9486
JM
3053 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3054 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3055 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3056 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3057 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3058 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3059 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3060 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3061 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3062 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3063 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3064 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3065 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3066 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3067 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3068 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3069 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3070 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3071
11520a57
CD
3072* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3073 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3074
2fe16229
CD
3075* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3076 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3077 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3078 extension which uses __block.
3079
303e567a
SP
3080* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3081 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3082 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3083 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3084 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3085
141f3a77
SP
3086* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3087 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3088 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3089 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3090 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3091
3092* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3093 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3094 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3095 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3096 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3097
3098* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3099 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3100 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3101
ba0d798c
WN
3102* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3103 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3104 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3105 #15856, #15857).
3106
7cbcdb36
SP
3107* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3108 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3109
82bab04b 3110* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3111 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3112
c5f840fd
MB
3113* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3114
3e181dda
CD
3115* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3116 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3117
3e181dda 3118* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3119
8a05c252
CL
3120* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3121
6055173a
JM
3122* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3123 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3124 for which the C library was built.
3125
b125d3e5
JM
3126* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3127 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3128 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3129 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3130 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3131 in the following circumstances:
3132
3133 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3134
3135 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3136 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3137
d4f66d37
JM
3138* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3139 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3140
3e181dda
CD
3141* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3142 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3143
ffb89e53
AO
3144* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3145
5d29ccce
SP
3146* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3147 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3148
8b7d57cd 3149* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3150
3151* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3152
fd712ef3 3153* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3154
c688b419
JM
3155* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3156 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3157 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3158 disable some of those declarations.
3159
7011c262 3160* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3161 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3162 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3163
3164* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3165 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3166
3167* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3168 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3169 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3170 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3171 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3172 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3173 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3174 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3175 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3176 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3177 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3178 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3179 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
3180\f
3181Version 2.18
3182
3183* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3184
17db6e8d 3185 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3186 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3187 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
3188 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3189 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3190 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3191 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3192 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3193 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3194 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3195 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3196 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3197 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3198 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
3199
3200* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3201 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3202 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3203 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3204 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3205 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3206
5b535ac4
AS
3207* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3208 #15078).
3209
1cef1b19
AS
3210* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3211 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3212
55e4107b
SP
3213* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3214 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3215 destructor calls to glibc.
3216
e5c74c63
SP
3217* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3218 output.
3219
3220* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3221 non-x86 architectures.
3222
e7521973
JM
3223* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3224
3225* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3226
3227* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3228 Richard Henderson.
3229
3230* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3231
3232* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3233 Richard Henderson.
3234
3235* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3236 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3237
8cfdb7e0
SP
3238* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3239
57267616
TS
3240* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3241 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3242
c204ab28
SP
3243* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3244 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3245
0748546f
PE
3246* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3247 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3248 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3249
61dd6208
SP
3250* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3251 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3252 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3253
3254* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3255 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3256 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3257 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3258 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3259
3260* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3261 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3262
3263* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
3264\f
3265Version 2.17
3266
3267* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3268
80ceeaee 3269 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3270 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3271 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3272 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3273 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3274 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3275 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3276 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3277 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3278 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3279 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3280 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3281 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3282 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3283 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3284
95b4f1b6
SE
3285* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3286
14bc93a9
JL
3287* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3288 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3289
b54eb3cb
JM
3290* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3291 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3292
7e2bd01f
MS
3293* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3294
08f43f9b
AK
3295* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3296 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3297 zEnterprise z196.
3298 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3299
84b3fd84
FW
3300* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3301 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3302 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3303
815e6fa3
GB
3304* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3305 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3306
400726de
MK
3307* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3308 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3309
7aab07e4 3310* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3311 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3312
15d0da8c
WS
3313* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3314 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3315
3cc3ef96
RM
3316* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3317 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3318 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3319 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3320
b54eb3cb
JM
3321* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3322 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3323
85429b1a 3324* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3325 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3326 default.
3327
b54eb3cb
JM
3328* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3329 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3330 information in --help and --version output.
3331
050af9c4
SP
3332* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3333 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3334 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3335
89a3ad0b
AO
3336* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3337 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3338 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3339 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3340 when the mode is enabled.
3341
6e6249d0
RM
3342* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3343 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3344 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3345 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3346 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3347 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3348 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3349
d9286582
NK
3350* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3351 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
3352\f
3353Version 2.16
3354
3355* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3356
a8133e19
JM
3357 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3358 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3359 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3360 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3361 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3362 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3363 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3364 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3365 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3366 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3367 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3368 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3369 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3370 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3371 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3372 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3373 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3374 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3375 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3376 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3377 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3378 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3379 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3380
a086b4d6
L
3381* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3382 configuring glibc with:
3383 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3384 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3385 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3386
380d7e87
UD
3387* ISO C11 support:
3388
3389 + define static_assert
3390
3391 + do not declare gets
3392
3393 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3394
3395 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3396 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3397 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3398 implementation.
8d44e150 3399
74033a25 3400 + timespec_get added
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3402 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3403
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3404 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3405
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3406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3407
9dc4e1fb 3408* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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3410* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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3411
3412* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3413 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3414
3415* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3416 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3417
3418* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3419 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3420 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3421 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3422 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3423
21708942 3424* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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3425 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3426 before 2.6.
83678f76 3427
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3428* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3429 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3430 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3431
83678f76 3432* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3433
3434* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3435 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3436 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3437 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3438 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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3439
3440* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3441
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3442* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3443 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
3444
3445* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3446
3447* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3448 without a previously built glibc.
3449
3450* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3451 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3452
3453* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3454 now supported for ARM processors.
3455
3456* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3457 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3458 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3459
3460* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
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3461
3462* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3463 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3464 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3465 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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3466
3467* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3468 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3469 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3470 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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3471
3472* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3473 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3474 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3475 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3476 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3477
3478* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3479 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3480 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3481 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 3483Version 2.15
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3485* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3486
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3487 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3488 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3489 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3490 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3491 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3492 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3493 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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3495* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3497
3498* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3499 and support for initgroups lookups.
3500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3501
3502* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3503 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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3504
3505* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3506 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3507
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3508* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3509 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3510 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3511
d42964a0 3512* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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3513 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3514
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3515* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3516 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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3517 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3518
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3519* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3521
3522* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3524
3525* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3526 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3527
3528* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3529 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3530
3531* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3532 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3533
3534* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3536
3537* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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3538
3539* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3540 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3541
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3542* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3543 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3544
6b64057b 3545* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3546\f
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9f94d2ea 3548
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3549* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3550
553149f6 3551 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3552 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3553 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3554 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3555 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3556 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3557 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3558 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3559 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3560 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3561
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3562* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3563 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3564 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3565 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3566
3567 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3568 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3569 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3571
c6489db3 3572* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3573 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3574
72d1dddb 3575* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3576 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3577
3578* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3579
3580* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3581 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3582
3583* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3584 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3585 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3586 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3588Version 2.13
3589
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3590* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3591
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3592 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3593 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3594 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3595 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3596 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3597
10b3bedc 3598* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3599
ac2b484c 3600* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3601
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3602* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3603 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3604 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3606Version 2.12
3607
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3608* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3609
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3610 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3611 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3612 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3613 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3614 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3615 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3616 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3617 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3618
3619* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3620
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3621* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3622
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3623* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3624
3625* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3626 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3627 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3628
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3629* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3630 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3631 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3632 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3633 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3634
d36b9613 3635* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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3636\f
3637Version 2.11
3638
d36b9613
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3639* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3640
3641 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3642 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3643 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3644 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3645 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3646 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3647
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3648* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3649 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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3650 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3651
24ab9c76 3652* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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3653 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3654
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3655* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3656 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3657
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3658* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3659
0122f28e 3660* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3661 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3662 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3663 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3664
9d36a6c4 3665 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3666 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3667
9d36a6c4
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3668* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3669 strstr, strcasestr.
3670 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3671
3672* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3673 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3674
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3675* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3676 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3677
3678* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3680
3681* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3682 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3683 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3684 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3685 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3686 necessity is every process again.
3687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3688
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3689* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3690 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3691
3692* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3693 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3694
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3695* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3696 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3697 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3698
9dd5b8a1 3699* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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3700\f
3701Version 2.10
3702
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3703* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3704
3705 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3706 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3707 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3708 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3709 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3710
bb066545 3711* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3713
425ce2ed 3714* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3715 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3716
1fdd89a7 3717* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3718 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 3719
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3720* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3721 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3722
1f04d005 3723* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3725
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3726* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3727 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3728
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3729* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3730 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3731
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3732* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3733 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3734
3735* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3736 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3738
735be400 3739* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3740
84aa52d7 3741* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3742 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3743
3744* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3745 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3746 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3747
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3748* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3750
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3751* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3752 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3753 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3754 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3755 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3756 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3758Version 2.9
3759
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3760* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3761
3762 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3763 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3764 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3765 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3766 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3767
b29899ae 3768* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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3769 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3770
3771* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3772 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3773
3774* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3775 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3776
3777* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3778 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3779 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3780
3781* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3782 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 3783
8ec2550e 3784* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3785
3786* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3787 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 3788
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3789* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3790 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3791 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3792 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3793
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3794* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3795 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
48b22986 3796
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3797* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3798 Sinhala)
48b22986 3799 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3800
3801* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3803Version 2.8
3804
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3805* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3806
3807 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3808 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3809 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3810 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3811 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3812 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3813 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3814
e038616f 3815* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3816
77751669 3817* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3818
3819* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3820 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3821
3822* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3823
3824* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3825 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3826
3827* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3828 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3829
3830* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3831 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3832 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3833
3834* Faster memset for x86-64.
3835 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3836
3837* Faster memcpy on x86.
3838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3839
3840* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3841 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3843* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3844 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3847
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3848* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3849
3850 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3851 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3852 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3853 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3854 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3855
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3856* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3857 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3858
3859* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3860
3861* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3862 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3863 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3864
3865* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3866 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3867
28919a77 3868* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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3869 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3870
3871* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3872
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3873* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3875
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3876* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3877 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3878
3879* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3880 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3881
3882* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3883
3884* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3885 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3887* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3888 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3889 yo_NG.
3890
3891+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3897
3898 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3899 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3900 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3901 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3902 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3903 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3904 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3905 4702, 4858
3906
bce20b9a 3907* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3910
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3914
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3916
3917 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3918 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3919 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3920 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3921 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3922 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3923 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3924 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3925 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3926
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3928 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3929 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3931* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3932 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3933
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3936* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3938* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3939 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3940 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3943
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3945 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3946 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3947 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3948
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3950 Ulrich Drepper.
3951
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3952* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3953
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3954* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3955 Ulrich Drepper.
3956
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3957* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3958
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3959* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3960 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3963
3964* More overflow detection functions.
3965
3966* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3967 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3969 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3970 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3971 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3972 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3973 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3974 by Masahide Washizawa.
3975
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3976* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3977 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3979* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3980 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3981 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3982 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3984* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3985 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3986
3987* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3988
3989* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3990 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3991 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3992
3993* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3994 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3995
3996* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3997 for compatibility with some other systems.
3998
3999* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4002
4003* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4004
4005 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4006 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4007 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4008 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4009 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4010 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4011
4012 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
4013
4014* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4015
4016* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4019
4020* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4021
4022 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4023 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4024 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4025 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4026
4027 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4030
4031* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4032 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4034* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4035 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4036 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4037
4038* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4039 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4040
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4042 efficiently.
4043 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4044
4045* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4046 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4047 handling data.
4048
4049* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4050 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4051 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4052
4053* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4054 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4055
4056* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4057 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4058 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4059 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4060
4061* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4062 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4063 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4064 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4065
4066* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4067 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4068 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4069 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4070 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4072Version 2.3.3
4073
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4074* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4075 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4076
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4077* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4078 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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4081 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4082
4083* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4086* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4087 by Roland McGrath.
4088
c5af724c 4089* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4090 and Ulrich Drepper.
4091
4092* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4093 RFC 3484.
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4095Version 2.3.2
4096
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4097* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4098 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4099 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4100 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4101 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4102 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4103 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4104 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4105 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4106
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4107* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4108 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4109 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4110
4111* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4112
4113* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4114 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4116* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4117 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4118
52a16e58 4119* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4121* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4122 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4123
4124* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4125 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4126 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4127 of weak definition in ld.so.
4128
4129* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4130 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4131
4132* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4133 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4137* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4138 charsets.
4139
4140* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4141 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4142
bb0ec5bd 4143* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4144 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4145
4146* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4147 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4148
bb0ec5bd 4149* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4150 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4151 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4153* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4154 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4155
bb0ec5bd 4156* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4157 implementation of regex.
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4158
4159* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4160 Unicode 3.2.
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4162* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4163 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4165* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4166 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4167 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4168
4169* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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4171
4172* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4173 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4174 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4175
4176* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4177 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4179* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4180 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4181 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4182
4183* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4185Version 2.2.6
4186
4187* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4188 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4189
4190* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4191 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4193Version 2.2.5
4194
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4195* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4196 128-bit long double format.
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4198* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4199 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4200
ad2e4f18 4201* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4203* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4204
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4205* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4206 as well.
4207
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4208* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4209 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4211* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4213Version 2.2.4
4214
2995f70e 4215* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4216 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4217
4218* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4219 support Unicode 3.1.
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4221* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4222 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
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69d5f925 4224* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4225
69d5f925 4226* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4227 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4228 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4229
4230* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4231 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4232
4233* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4234 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4235
4236* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4238Version 2.2.3
4239
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4241 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4242 in float, double, and long double format.
4243
f128331c 4244* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4245 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4246 128-bit long double format.
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4248* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4249 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4250 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4251 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4252
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4254 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4255 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4257* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4258 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4259
4260* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4261 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4263* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4264 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4265 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4266
4267* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4268 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4270* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4271 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4273* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4276
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4278 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4279 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4280 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4281 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4282 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4283 other headers.
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4284
4285* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4286 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4287
4288* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4289 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4290 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4291 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4292
4293* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4294 locales. While
4295
4296 locale -a
4297
4298 only lists the names of the supported locales
4299
4300 locale -a --verbose
4301
4302 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4303 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4305Version 2.2.1
4306
4307* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4308 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4309 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4310 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4311 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4312
4313 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4314
4315 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4316
4317 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4318
4319* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4320 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4321 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4322
4323* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4324 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4325
4326* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4327 changed from the default "C" locale.
4328
4329* The usual bug fixes.
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4331Version 2.2
4332
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4333* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4334 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4335 is in progress.
4336
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4337* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4338
793bd4d9 4339* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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4341 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4342 obviously requires a database library being available.
4343
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4344* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4345
abbffdf9 4346* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4348* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4349 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4350
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4351* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4352
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4353* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4354 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4355 and Mark Kettenis.
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4356
4357 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4358 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4359 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4360
a00c3ca9 4361 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4362 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4363
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4364* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4365 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4366 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4367
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4368* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4369 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4370 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4372
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4373 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4374 structures for the wide character tables.
4375
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4376* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4377
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4378* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4379
4380* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4381
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4382* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4383 and Yutaka Niibe.
4384
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4385* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4386
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4387* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4388
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4389* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4390
4391* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4392
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4393* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4394
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4395* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4396 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4397 implemented for Linux.
4398
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4399* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4400 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4401 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4402 versions.
4403
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4404* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4405 Masahide Washizawa.
4406
8f3f1e09 4407* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4409Version 2.1.3
4410
4411* bug fixes
4412
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4414Version 2.1.2
4415
4416* bug fixes
4417
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4419Version 2.1.1
4420
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4421* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4422
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4423* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4424
407d26b7 4425* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4426
4427* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4428
407d26b7 4429* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4430
407d26b7 4431* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4432
4433* Update timezone data files.
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4435* lots of charmaps corrections
4436
4437* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4438
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4440Version 2.1
4441
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4442* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4443 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4444 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4445 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4446 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4447 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4448
c84142e8 4449* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4450 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4451
1fb05e3d 4452* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4453 symbol level.
4454
4455* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4456 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4457
cbdee279 4458* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4459
4460* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4461 numbers.
377a515b 4462
cbdee279 4463* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4464
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4465* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4466 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
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4468* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4469 library.
4470
e61abf83 4471* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4472 functions from ISO C 9X.
4473
4474* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4475 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4476
a5a0310d 4477* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4479* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4480
4481* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4482
440d13e2 4483* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4484
4485* Optimized string functions have been added.
4486
4487* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4488
4489* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4491* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4492 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4493
4494 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4495 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4496
0dee6738 4497 user system wall
48244d09 4498
0dee6738 4499 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4500
0dee6738 4501 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4502
0dee6738 4503 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4505 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4506
4507 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4508
4509 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4511 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4512 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4513 horribly slow.
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4515 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4516 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4517
4518* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4519
4520* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4521
4522* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4523 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4524
4525* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4527* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4528 Bambrough.
4529
4530* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4531 latest draft standards.
4532
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4533* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4534
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4535* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4536~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 4537addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4538alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4539argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4540argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4541argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4542argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4543argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4544argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4545argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4546argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4547argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4548argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4549authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4550authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4551authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4552backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4553backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4554backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4555cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4556cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4557cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4558cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4559cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4560cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4561capget NEW: kernel
4562capset NEW: kernel
4563carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4564cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4565cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4566casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4567casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4568casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4569casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4570casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4571casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4572catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4573catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4574catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4575catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4576catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4577catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4578cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4579ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4580ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4581ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4582ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4583ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4584ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4585cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4586cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4587cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4588cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4589cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4590cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4591clearerr_locked REMOVED
4592clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4593clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4594clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4595clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4596clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4597clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4598clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4599conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4600conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4601conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4602cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4603cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4604cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4605cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4606cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4607cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4608creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4609crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4610creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4611creat64 NEW: LFS
4612csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4613csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4614csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4615csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4616csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4617csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4618csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4619csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4620csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4621ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4622ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4623ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4624ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4625ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4626ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4627des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4628ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4629endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4630exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4631exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4632exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4633exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4634exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4635exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4636fattach NEW: STREAMS
4637fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4638fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4639fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4640fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4641feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4642fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4643fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4644fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4645feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4646feof_locked REMOVED
4647feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4648ferror_locked REMOVED
4649fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4650fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4651fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4652fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4653feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4654fflush_locked REMOVED
4655ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4656ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4657fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4658fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4659fileno_locked REMOVED
4660fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4661fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4662fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4663fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4664fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4665fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4666fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4667fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4668fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4669fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4670fopen64 NEW: LFS
4671fputc_locked REMOVED
4672fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4673fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4674freopen64 NEW: LFS
4675fseeko NEW: Unix98
4676fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4677fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4678fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4679fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4680ftello NEW: Unix98
4681ftello64 NEW: LFS
4682ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4683ftw64 NEW: LFS
4684fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4685gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4686gamma_r REMOVED
4687gammaf_r REMOVED
4688gammal_r REMOVED
4689getchar_locked REMOVED
4690getdate NEW: Unix98
4691getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4692getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4693getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4694getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4695getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4696getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4697getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4698getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4699getutxent NEW: Unix98
4700getutxid NEW: Unix98
4701getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4702glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4703globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4704gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4705gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4706grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4707host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4708iconv NEW: iconv
4709iconv_close NEW: iconv
4710iconv_open NEW: iconv
4711if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4712if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4713if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4714if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4715in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4716in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4717inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4718isastream NEW: STREAMS
4719iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4720key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4721key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4722key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4723key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4724key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4725key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4726key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4727key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4728key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4729llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4730llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4731llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4732llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4733llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4734llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4735log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4736log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4737log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4738lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4739lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4740lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4741lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4742lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4743lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4744lseek64 NEW: LFS
4745makecontext NEW: Unix98
4746mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4747mmap64 NEW: LFS
4748moncontrol REMOVED
4749modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4750nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4751nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4752nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4753nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4754nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4755nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4757netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4758nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4759nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4760nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4761nftw NEW: Unix98
4762nftw64 NEW: LFS
4763open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4764passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4765pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4766pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4767pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4768pread NEW: Unix98
4769pread64 NEW: LFS
4770printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4771printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4772profil_counter REMOVED
4773pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4774pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4775ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4776ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4777putc_locked REMOVED
4778putchar_locked REMOVED
4779putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4780putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4781putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4782pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4783pwrite NEW: Unix98
4784pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4785readdir64 NEW: LFS
4786readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4787remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4788remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4789remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4790round NEW: ISO C 9x
4791roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4792roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4793rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4794scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4795scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4796scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4797scandir64 NEW: LFS
4798sendfile NEW: kernel
4799setcontext NEW: Unix98
4800setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4801setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4803sigignore NEW: Unix98
4804sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4805sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4806sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4807sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4808sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4809sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4810sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4811sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4812statfs64 NEW: LFS
4813statvfs NEW: Unix98
4814statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4815strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4816strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4817strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4818strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4819svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4821svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4822swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4823tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4824tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4825tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4826tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4827tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4828tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4829trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4830truncate64 NEW: LFS
4831truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4832truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4833umount2 NEW: kernel
4834unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4835updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4836user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4837utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4838versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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4840waitid NEW: Unix98
4841wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4842wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4843wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4844wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4845wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4846wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4847wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4848wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4849wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4850wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4851write_profiling REMOVED
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4853xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4854xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4855xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4856xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4857xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4858xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4859xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4860xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4861xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4862xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4863xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4864xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4865xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4866xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4867~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4869Version 2.0.6
4870
4871* more bug fixes
4872
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4874Version 2.0.5
4875
4876* more bug fixes
4877
4878* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4879
4880* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4881
4882* rewrite of cbrt function
4883
4884* update of timezone data
4885\f
4886Version 2.0.4
4887
4888* more bug fixes
4889\f
4890Version 2.0.3
4891
4892* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4893\f
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4894Version 2.0.2
4895
4896* more bug fixes
4897
4898* add atoll function
4899
4900* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4901
4902* fix math functions
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4904Version 2.0.1
4905
4906* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4907
4908* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4909
4910* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4911 the ELF dynamic loader.
4912
4913* support for parallel builds is improved
4914\f
40a4b79f 4915Version 2.0
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4917* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4918 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4919 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4920
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4921* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4922 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4923 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4924 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4925 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4926 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4927 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4928 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4929 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4930 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4931 files in the ELF format.
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4932
4933* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4934 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4935
4936* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4937 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4938 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4939 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4940 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4941 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4942 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4943 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4944 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4945 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4946 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4948* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4949 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4950 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4951 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4952 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4953
f7eac6eb 4954* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4955 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4956 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4957 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4958 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4959
4960* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4962* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4963 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4964 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4965 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4966 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4967 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4968 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4969 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4970 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4971
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4972* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4973 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4974 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4975
4976* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4977 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4978 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4979
4980* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4981 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4982 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4983 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4984
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4985* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4986 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4987 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4988
4989* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4990 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4991 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4992
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4993* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4994 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4995
f7eac6eb 4996* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4997 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4998 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4999 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5000
5001* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5002 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5003 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5004
71733723 5005* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5006 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5007 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5008 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5009 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5010 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5011 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5012 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5013
5014* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5015 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5016 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5017 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5018 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5019 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5020 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5021
5022* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5023 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5024 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5025 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5026 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5027 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5028
5029* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5030 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5031
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5032* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5033 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5034 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5036* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5037
5038* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5039 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5040 their use is discouraged.
5041
5042* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5043 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5045* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5046 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5047
5048* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5049 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5050
5051* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5052 see <dirent.h>.
5053
5054* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5055 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5056 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5057 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5058 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5059
5060* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5061 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5062 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5063 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5064
5065* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5066 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5067
5068* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5069 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5070 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5071 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5072 number generator.
5073
5074* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5075 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5076
5077* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5078 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5079
71733723 5080* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5081 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5082 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5083 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 5084
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5085* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5086
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5087* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5088 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5089 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5090
5091* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5092 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 5093
c709e372 5094* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5095 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5096 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5097 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5098
5099* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5100 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5101 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5102 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5103 programs already written to use it.)
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5104
5105* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5106 constants.
5107
5108* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5109 with 4.4 BSD.
5110
5111* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5112 a given effective group ID.
5113
5114* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5115 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5116 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5117 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5118
5119* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5120 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5121 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5122 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5123 doing the same thing.
5124
5125* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5126 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5127
5128* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5129 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5130
5131* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5132
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5133* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5134 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5135 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5136 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5137 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5138
5139* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5140 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5141
5142* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5143 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5144 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5145 function.
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5146
5147* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5148
5149* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5150 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5151 strings.
5152
5153* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5154 and writing the utmp file.
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5155
5156* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5157 Thorsten Kukuk.
5158
5159* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5160 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5161 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5162
5163* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5164 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5165
5166* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5167 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5168 specification.
5169
5170* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5171 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5172 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5173 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5174
5175* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5176 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5177 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5178
5179* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5180 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5181 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5182 expression matcher.
5183
5184* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5185 functionality.
5186
5187* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5188 by Ulrich Drepper.
5189
5190* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5191
5192* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5193 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5194 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5196Version 1.09
5197
5198* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5199
5200* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5201 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5202
5203* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5204 want to put themselves in the background.
5205
5206* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5207 run without an operating system.
5208
5209* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5210 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5211
5212* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5213 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5214
5215* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5216
5217* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5218 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5219 have YP (aka NIS).
5220
5221* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5222 conventions.
5223
5224* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5225 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5226\f
5227Version 1.08
5228
5229* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5230 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5231 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5232
5233* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5234 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5235
5236* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5237 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5238
5239* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5240
5241* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5242
5243* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5244 compatibility.
5245
5246* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5247 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5248 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5249
5250* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5251
5252* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5253 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5254 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5255
5256* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5257 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5258 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5259 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5260 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5261 on a block).
5262
5263* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5264 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5265 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5266 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5267 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5268 cross-compiler.
5269
5270* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5271 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5272\f
5273Version 1.07
5274
5275* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5276 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5277
5278* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5279 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5280 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5281
5282* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5283 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5284 address of the last character written.
5285
5286* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5287 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5288
5289* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5290 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5291
5292* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5293 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5294 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5295 you dereference this pointer.
5296
5297* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5298 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5299
5300* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5301 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5302 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5303 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5304
5305* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5306 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5307 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5308 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5309\f
5310Version 1.06
5311
5312* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5313 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5314 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5315 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5316 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5317
5318* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5319
5320* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5321
5322* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5323 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5324
5325* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5326 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5327
5328* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5329 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5330
5331* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5332 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5333 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5334 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5335 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5336
5337* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5338 to the error code in `errno'.
5339
5340* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5341 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5342 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5343 malloc'd string.
5344
5345* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5346 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5347 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5348
5349* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5350 uniquely-named temporary file.
5351\f
5352Version 1.05
5353
5354* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5355 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5356 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5357
5358* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5359 characters.
5360
5361* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5362 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5363
5364* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5365\f
5366Version 1.04
5367
5368* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5369 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5370 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5371 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5372
5373* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5374 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5375 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5376
5377* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5378 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5379
5380* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5381 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5382 made itself into a shared library.
5383
5384* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5385 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5386
5387* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5388 with limited length.
5389
5390* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5391
5392* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5393
5394* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5395
5396* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5397 function for traversing a directory tree.
5398
5399* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5400 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5401 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5402 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5403
5404* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5405 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5406
5407* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5408
5409* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5410 things to your strings.
5411
5412* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5413
5414* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5415 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5416 supporting those systems.
5417
5418* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5419 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5420 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5421 configuration files.
5422
5423* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5424 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5425
5426* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5427 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5428 in <strings.h>.)
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5429
5430* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5431 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5432 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5433 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5434 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5435 required storage is not available.
5436
5437* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5438 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5439
5440* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5441 latest files released from Berkeley.
5442\f
5443----------------------------------------------------------------------
5444Copyright information:
5445
c9123888 5446Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5447
5448 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5449 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5450 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5451 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5452
5453 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5454 of this document, or of portions of it,
5455 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5456 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5457\f
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