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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 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 2.28.1
9
10The following bugs are resolved with this release:
11
1e5c5303 12 [19444] build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
2373941b 13 [20018] getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing characters
5473739a 14 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
fc0e3393 15 [22927] libanl: properly cleanup if first helper thread creation failed
df11de91 16 [23400] stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc source tree
4b25485f 17 [23497] readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
3e8d8dd5 18 [23509] CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older linker
2f498f3d 19 [23521] nss_files aliases database file stream leak
aa8a3e4c 20 [23538] pthread_cond_broadcast: Fix waiters-after-spinning case
69d1e73d 21 [23562] signal: Use correct type for si_band in siginfo_t
58559f14 22 [23578] regex: Fix memory overread in re_compile_pattern
044c96f0 23 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2339d6a5 24 [23606] Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
85262025 25 [23614] powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_* functions
e7d22db2 26 [23679] gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
65010329 27 [23709] Fix CPU string flags for Haswell-type CPUs
3a67c72c 28 [23717] Fix stack overflow in stdlib/tst-setcontext9
aff9b377 29 [23821] si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
5256ffc5 30 [23822] ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
ce6ba630 31 [23927] Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor (CVE-2018-19591)
5f1ae50a 32 [23972] __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
bee4baf6 33 [24018] gettext may return NULL
be62bbb6 34 [24022] riscv may lack <asm/syscalls.h>
198bfee8 35 [24024] strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-error
8f83d095 36 [24027] malloc: Integer overflow in realloc
2a8612b2 37 [24034] tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when using GCC 8
492524a6 38 [24097] Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
9aaa0833 39 [24155] x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
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43 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
44 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
45 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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47 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
48 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
49 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
50 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
51 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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53 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
54 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
55 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
56 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
57 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
58 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
59 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
60
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61 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
62 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
63 or command injection issues in applications.
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65Version 2.28
66
67Major new features:
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69* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
70 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
71 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
72 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
73 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
74 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
75 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
76 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
77 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
78 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
79 archive or binary locales.
80
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81* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
82 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
83 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
84 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
85 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
86 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
87 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
88 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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89 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
90 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
91 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
92 validated for i686.
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94* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
95 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
96 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
97 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
98 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
99 field) to indicate such support is required.
100
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101* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
102 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
103 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
104
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105* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
106 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
107
108 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
109 fMxaddfNx functions.
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111 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
112 fMxsubfNx functions.
113
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114 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
115 fMxmulfNx functions.
116
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117 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
118 fMxdivfNx functions.
119
e607a352 120* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 121 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 122 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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123 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
124 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 126* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 127 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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129* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
130 patches.
131
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132* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
133 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
134 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
135 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
136 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
137 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
138 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
139 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
140
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141* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
142 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
143 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
144 the fstatat64 function.
145
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146* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
147 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
148 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
149 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
150 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
151 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
152 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
153 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
154 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
155
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156* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
157 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
158 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
159 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
160 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
161 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
162 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
163 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
164 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
165 results in a load failure now.
166
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167* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
168 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
169 <threads.h>:
170
171 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
172 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
173
174 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
175 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
176
177 - call_once for function call synchronization.
178
179 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
180 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
181
182 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
183
184 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
185
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186Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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188* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
189 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
190 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
191
192* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
193 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
194 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
195 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
196 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
197 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
198
199* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
200 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
201 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
202 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
203 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
204 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
205 (Bug #1190.)
206
207* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
208 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
209 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
210 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
211 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
212 further explanation.
213
214 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
215 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
216 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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218* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
219
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220* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
221 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
222 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
223
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224* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
225 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
226 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
227 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
228
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229* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
230 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
231 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
232 for this function instead.
233
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234* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
235 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
236 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
237
238* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
239 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
240 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
241 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
242
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243* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
244 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
245 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
246 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
247 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
248
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249* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
250 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
251 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
252 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
253 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
254 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
255 such as libgcrypt.
256
257* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
258 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
259 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
260 enabled.
261
262* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
263 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
264 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
265
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266* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
267 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
268 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
269 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
270 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
271 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
272
273 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
274 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
275 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
276 behavior in a future release.
277
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278Changes to build and runtime requirements:
279
f2873d2d 280 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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282Security related changes:
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284 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
285 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
286 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
287 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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289 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
290 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
291
292 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
293 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
294 Izbyshev.
295
296 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
297 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
298 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
299
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300The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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302 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
303 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
304 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
305 when __WORDSIZE != 64
306 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
307 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
308 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
309 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
310 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
311 14651
312 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
313 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
314 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
315 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
316 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
317 conversion is given
318 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
319 date
320 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
321 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
322 scope with -O1 and higher
323 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
324 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
325 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
326 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
327 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
328 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
329 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
330 horrible machine code)
331 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
332 last constant.
333 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
334 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
335 symbols
336 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
337 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
338 defined
339 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
340 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
341 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
342 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
343 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
344 fpscr.c'
345 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
346 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
347 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
348 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
349 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
350 the base address
351 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
352 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
353 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
354 open_verify
355 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
356 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
357 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
358 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
359 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
360 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
361 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
362 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
363 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
364 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
365 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
366 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
367 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
368 dlopen
369 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
370 AT_SECURE=1
371 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
372 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
373 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
374 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
375 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
376 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
377 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
378 for Spanish with CLDR
379 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
380 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
381 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
382 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
383 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
384 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
385 es_BO
386 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
387 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
388 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
389 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
390 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
391 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
392 dlopen failures
393 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
394 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
395 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
396 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
397 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
398 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
399 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
400 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
401 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
402 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
403 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
404 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
405 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
406 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
407 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
408 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
409 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
410 makecontext
411 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
412 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
413 required
414 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
415 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
416 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
417 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
418 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
419 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
420 disabled
421 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
422 failure
423 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
424 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
425 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
426 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
427 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
428 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
429 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
430 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
431 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
432 and libc build with -Os)
433 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
434 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
435 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
436 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
437 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
438 that changes /etc/passwd
439 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
440 (CVE-2018-11237)
441 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
442 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
443 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
444 posix/regcomp.c
445 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
446 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
447 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
448 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
449 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
450 AT_SECURE
451 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
452 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
453 parser.c
454 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
455 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
456 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
457 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
458 directed rounding
459 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
460 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
461 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
462 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
463 lookup
464 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
465 interposition
466 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
467 DSO boundaries.
468 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
469 <linux/time.h>
470 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
471 checking
472 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
473 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
474 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
475 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
476 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
477 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
478 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
479 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
480 processors
481 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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482 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
483 answers will be rejected)
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486Version 2.27
487
488Major new features:
489
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491 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 492 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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493 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
494 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
495 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
496 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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497 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
498 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 499
ac817e08 500* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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502 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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504* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
505
4cf82d23 506* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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509 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
510 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
511 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
512 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
513 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
514 from a security and performance perspective.
515
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516* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
517 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
518 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
519 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
520
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523 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
524 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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525 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
526
a23aa5b7 527* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 528 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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529 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
530 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
531 _Float128.
532
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533* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
534 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
535 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 536
4bab0224 537* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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539* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
540 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
541 pkey_get.
542
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543* The copy_file_range function was added.
544
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545* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
546
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547* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
548 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
549 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
550
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552 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
553 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
554 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
555 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
556 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
557 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
558
559 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
560 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
561 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
562 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
563 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
564 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
565 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
566
567 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
568 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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570 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
571 respectively.
572
573 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
574 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
575 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
576 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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578 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
579 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
580 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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583 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 584 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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587 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
588 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
589
590 - rv64imac lp64
591 - rv64imafdc lp64
592 - rv64imafdc lp64d
593
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595
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596* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
597 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 598 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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599 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
600 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
601 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
602 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
603 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
604 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
605 fix this.
606
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607* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
608 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
609 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
610
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611* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
612 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
613 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
614 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
615 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
616 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
617 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
618 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
619 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
620 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
621 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
622 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
623 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
624 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
625 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
626 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
627 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
628 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
629 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
630 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
631 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
632 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
633 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
634 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
635 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
636 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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639 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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642 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
643 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
644 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
645 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
646 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
647 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
648
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650 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
651 exp10l for these functions instead.
652
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653* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
654 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
655 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
656
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657* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
658 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
659 ignored.
660
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661* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
662 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
663 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
664 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
665
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666* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
667 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
668
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669* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
670 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
671
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672* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
673 programs.
674
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675* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
676
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677* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
678 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
679 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
680 instead.
681
682 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
683 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
684 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
685 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
686 use, but predates the bits convention.
687
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689
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690* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
691 subdirectory.
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693Security related changes:
694
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695 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
696 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
697 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
698 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
699 script.)
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701 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
702 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
703 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
704 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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706 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
707 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
708 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
709 of service.
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712 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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713 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
714
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715 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
716 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
717 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
718 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
719
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720 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
721 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
722 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
723 Qualys.
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725 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
726 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
727 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
728 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
729 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
730
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731 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
732 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
733 current directory.
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735 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
736 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
737 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
738
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739 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
740 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
741 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
742
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743 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
744 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
745 small, instead of NULL.
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749 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
750 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
751 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
752 locale
753 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
754 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
755 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
756 cases
757 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
758 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
759 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
760 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
761 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
762 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
763 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
764 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
765 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
766 "Bangla"
767 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
768 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
769 width Latin characters
770 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
771 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
772 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
773 letters
774 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
775 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
776 (CVE-2009-5064)
777 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
778 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
779 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
780 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
781 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
782 if malloc succeeded
783 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
784 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
785 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
786 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
787 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
788 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
789 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
790 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
791 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
792 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
793 U+309A
794 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
795 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
796 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
797 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
798 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
799 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
800 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
801 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
802 for Nicaragua
803 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
804 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
805 are not found.
806 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
807 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
808 access
809 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
810 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
811 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
812 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
813 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
814 __regcall calling convention
815 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
816 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
817 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
818 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
819 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
820 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
821 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
822 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
823 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
824 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
825 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
826 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
827 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
828 locale
829 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
830 protector=all
831 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
832 wcwidth
833 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
834 consistency check failures
835 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
836 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
837 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
838 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
839 PIE
840 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
841 locales
842 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
843 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
844 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
845 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
846 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
847 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
848 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
849 on memory allocation failure
850 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
851 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
852 the suspect)
853 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
854 default (i386)
855 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
856 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
857 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
858 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
859 instead of EAI_NODATA
860 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
861 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
862 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
863 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
864 implementation
865 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
866 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
867 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
868 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
869 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
870 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
871 allocation in syscall loops)
872 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
873 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
874 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
875 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
876 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
877 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
878 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
879 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
880 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
881 occur with -O3
882 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
883 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
884 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
885 amounts)
886 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
887 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
888 niu_NZ
889 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
890 checks
891 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
892 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
893 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
894 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
895 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
896 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
897 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
898 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
899 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
900 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
901 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
902 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
903 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
904 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
905 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
906 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
907 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
908 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
909 parsing after OOM
910 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
911 object
912 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
913 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
914 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
915 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
916 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
917 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
918 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
919 ppc64le
920 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
921 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
922 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
923 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
924 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
925 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
926 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
927 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
928 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
929 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
930 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
931 math_force_eval
932 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
933 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
934 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
935 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
936 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
937 the svid compat wrapper
938 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
939 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
940 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
941 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
942 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
943 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
944 --verbose.
945 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
946 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
947 to 2.26
948 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
949 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
950 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
951 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
952 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
953 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
954 (CVE-2017-15804)
955 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
956 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
957 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
958 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
959 failure."
960 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
961 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
962 -m32
963 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
964 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
965 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
966 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
967 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
968 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
969 inside the ASCII printable range
970 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
971 -mlong-double-64
972 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
973 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
974 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
975 Internet
976 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
977 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
978 backslash
979 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
980 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
981 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
982 heaps in an arena
983 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
984 networking interface
985 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
986 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
987 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
988 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
989 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
990 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
991 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
992 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
993 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
994 order
995 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
996 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
997 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
998 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
999 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1000 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1001 same as for Croatian
1002 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1003 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1004 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1005 for initial thread"
1006 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1007 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1008 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1009 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1010 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1011 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1012 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1013 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1014 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1015 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1016 modified in case of success
1017 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1018 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1019 success
1020 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1021 stack-protector=all
1022 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1023 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1024 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1025 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1026 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1027 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1028 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1029 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1030 adding it on top
1031 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1032 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1033 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1034 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1035 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1036 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1037 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1038 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1039 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1040 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1041 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1042 elision and tunables
1043 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1044 "invalid" exception
1045 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1046 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1047 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1048 exception
1049 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1050 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1051 power4
1052 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1053 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1054 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1055 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1056 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1057 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1058 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1059 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1060 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1063Version 2.26
1064
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1065Major new features:
1066
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1067* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1068 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1069 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1070 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1071 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1072 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1073 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1074
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1075* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1076 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1077 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1078 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1079 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1080 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1081 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1083* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1084 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1085 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1086
2b2ccd0c 1087* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1089 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1090 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1091 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1093 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1094 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1095 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1096 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1097 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1099 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1100 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1101 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1103* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1104 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1106* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1107 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1108 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1109 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1111* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1112 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1113 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1114 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1116* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1117 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1118 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1119 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1121* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1122 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1123 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1124
2b2ccd0c 1125* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1127 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1128 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1129
2b2ccd0c 1130 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1131 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1132 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1133 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1134 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1135
1136 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1137 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1138 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1139 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1140 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1141 interfaces should be used instead.
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1143Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1144
1145* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1146 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1147 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1148 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1149 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1150 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1151 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1152 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1153
1154* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1155 removed.
1156
1157* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1158 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1159 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1160 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1161
1162* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1163 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1164 default.
1165
1166 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1167 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1168 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1169 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1170 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1172 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1173 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1174 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1175 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1176
1177* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1178 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1179 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1180 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1181
1182* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1183 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1185* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1186 exported by accident.
1187
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1188* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1189 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1190 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1191
1192* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1193 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1194 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1195 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1196
1197* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1198
1199* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1200
1201* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1202 free instead.
1203
1204* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1205 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1206
1207* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1208 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1209
1210* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1211 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1212 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1213 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1214 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1215 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1216 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1217 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1218
1219* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1220 synced with the kernel:
1221
1222 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1223 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1224
1225 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1226 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1227 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1228
1229 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1230 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1231
1232Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1233
1234* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1235 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1236 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1237
7e368000 1238* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1241 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1243 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1244 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1245 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1246 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1247 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1250
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1252 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1253
1254* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1255 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1256
1257* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1258 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1259 (CVE-2010-3192).
1260
1261* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1262 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1264The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1266 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1267 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1268 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1269 fields
1270 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1271 (CVE-2010-3192)
1272 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1273 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1274 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1275 ld.bfd is available
1276 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1277 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1278 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1279 x86 and other generic code
1280 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1281 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1282 incorrect
1283 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1284 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1285 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1286 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1287 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1288 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1289 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1290 resolver
1291 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1292 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1293 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1294 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1295 chillu characters
1296 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1297 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1298 receiving data
1299 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1300 whitespace
1301 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1302 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1303 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1304 for Peru
1305 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1306 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1307 failures consistently
1308 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1309 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1310 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1311 frame-pointer on i386
1312 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1313 register
1314 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1315 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1316 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1317 generic c code is used
1318 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1319 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1320 around 4000
1321 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1322 (CVE-2017-12133)
1323 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1324 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1325 with -lieee
1326 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1327 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1328 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1329 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1330 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1331 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1332 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1333 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1334 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1335 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1336 remove()
1337 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1338 checked for errors.
1339 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1340 new posix_spawn implementation
1341 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1342 leads to lower CPU frequency
1343 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1344 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1345 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1346 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1347 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1348 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1349 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1350 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1351 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1352 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1353 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1354 not support gethostbyname4_r
1355 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1356 switching
1357 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1358 arenas
1359 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1360 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1361 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1362 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1363 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1364 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1365 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1366 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1367 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1368 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1369 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1370 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1371 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1372 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1373 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1374 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1375 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1376 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1377 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1378 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1379 retry value
1380 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1381 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1382 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1383 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1384 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1385 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1386 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1387 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1388 [21537] libc:
1389 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1390 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1391 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1392 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1393 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1394 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1395 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1396 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1397 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1398 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1399 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1400 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1401 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1402 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1403 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1404 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1405 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1406 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1407 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1408 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1409 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1410 issue on x86-64
1411 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1412 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1413 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1414 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1415 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1416 construction
1417 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1418 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1419 between_2_3
1420 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1421 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1422 conditions
1423 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1424 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1425 Hindi Locale
1426 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1427 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1428 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1429 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1430 locale
1431 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1432 leading to relocation crash
1433 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1434 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1435 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1436 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1437 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1438 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1439 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1440 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1441 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1442 locale
1443 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1444 locale
1445 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1446 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1447 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1448 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1449 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1450 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1451 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1452 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1453 strings
1454 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1455 protector=all
1456 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1457 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1458 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1459 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1460 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1461 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1462 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1463 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1464 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1465 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1466 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1467 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1468 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1469 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1470 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1471 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1472 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1473 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1474 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1475 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1476 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1477 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1478 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1479 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1480 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1481 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1482 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1483 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1484 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1485 with unicode 9.0
1486 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1487 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1488 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1489 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1490 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1493Version 2.25
1494
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1495* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1496 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1497 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1498 Library.
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1500* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1501 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1502 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1503 the GNU C Library.
1504
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1505* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1506 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1507 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1508 the GNU C Library.
1509
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1510* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1511 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1512 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1513 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1514 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1515 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1516 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1517 will not.
1518
1519 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1520 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1521 many years.
1522
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1523* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1524 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1525 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1526
1527 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1528 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1529 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1530 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1531 problem.
1532
ec94343f 1533* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1534 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1535 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1537* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1538 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1539 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1540 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1541 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1542 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1543 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1544 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1545 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1546 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1547 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1548 WINT_WIDTH.
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1550* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1551
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1552 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1553
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1554 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1555 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1556 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 1557
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1558 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1559 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1560
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1561 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1562 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1563
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1564 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1565
29cb9293 1566 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 1567
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1568 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1569 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 1570
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1571 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1572
eb3c12c7 1573 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1574 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 1575
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1576* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1577 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1578
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1579* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1580 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1581 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1582
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1583* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1584 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1585 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1586 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1587 effects of the memory clear).
1588
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1589* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1590 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1591 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1592 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1593
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1594* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1595 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1596 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1597 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1598 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1599 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1601* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1602 have been added.
1603
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1604* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1605 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1606 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1607 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1608 as large as several megabytes.
1609
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1610* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1611 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1612 been removed.
1613
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1614* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1615 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1616 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1617 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1618 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1619 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1620 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1621
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1622* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1623 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1624 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1625 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1626
099191b1 1627* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1628 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1629 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1630 Internet.
1631
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1632* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1633 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1634 They were already unimplemented.
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1636* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1637 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1638 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1639 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1640
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1641* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1642 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1643 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1644 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1645 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1646
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1647* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1648 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1649 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1650 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1651 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1652
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1653* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1654 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1655 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1656 did not reflect that.
1657
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1658* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1659 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1660 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1661 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1662 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1663 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1664 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1665 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1666
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1667* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1668 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1669 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1670 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1671
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1672* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1673 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1674 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1675 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1676
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1677* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1678 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1679 guarantees.
1680
1681* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1682 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1683 make state changes.
1684
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1685Security related changes:
1686
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1688 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1689 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1690 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1691 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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1693* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1694 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1695 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1696 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1697 (CVE-2015-5180)
1698
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1699The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1700
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1701 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1702 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1703 protector-all
1704 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1705 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1706 before it started waiting
1707 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1708 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1709 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1710 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1711 wrong type
1712 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1713 library linked with pthread
1714 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1715 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1716 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1717 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1718 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1719 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1720 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1721 when it shouldnt
1722 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1723 not
1724 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1725 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1726 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1727 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1728 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1729 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1730 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1731 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1732 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1733 termination
1734 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1735 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1736 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1737 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1738 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1739 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1740 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1741 causes a segmentation fault
1742 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1743 linking
1744 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1745 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1746 uninitialized GOT
1747 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1748 versions
1749 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1750 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1751 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1752 is always true.
1753 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1754 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1755 modes
1756 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1757 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1758 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1759 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1760 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1761 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1762 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1763 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1764 libpthread.a
1765 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1766 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1767 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1768 _res_hconf
1769 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1770 information.
1771 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1772 penalty
1773 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1774 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1775 cause transition penalty
1776 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1777 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1778 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1779 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1780 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1781 mcount.oS)
1782 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1783 Checking
1784 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1785 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1786 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1787 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1788 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1789 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1790 multi-arch
1791 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1792 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1793 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1794 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1795 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1796 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1797 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1798 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1799 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1800 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1801 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1802 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1803 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1804 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1805 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1806 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1807 glibc
1808 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1809 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1810 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1811 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1812 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1813 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1814 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1815 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1816 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1817 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1818 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1819 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1820 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1821 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1822 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1823 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1824 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1825 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1826 RES_USE_INET6
1827 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1828 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1829 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1830 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1831 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1832 wrong condition
1833 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1834 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1835 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1836 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1837 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1838 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1839 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1840 clang
1841 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1842 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1843 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1844 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1845 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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1849* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1850 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1851 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1852 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1853 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1854 architectures.
1855
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1856* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1857 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1858 been included in previous releases.
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1860* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1861 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1862
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1863* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1864 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1865 instead of “union wait”.
1866
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1867* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1868 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1869 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1870 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1871 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1872 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1873 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1874
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1875* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1876 API.
1877
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1878* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1879 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1880 drop it.
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1882* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1883 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1884 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1885 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1886 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1887 extensions.
1888
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1890
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1891* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1892 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1893 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1894
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1895* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1896 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1897 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1898 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
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1900* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1901 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1902 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1903
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1904* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1905 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1906 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1907
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1908* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1909 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1910 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1911 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
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1914
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1915 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1916 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1917 of MS-DOS.
1918 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1919 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1920 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1921 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1922 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1923 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1924 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1925 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1926 CLDR data
1927 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1928 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1929 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1930 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1931 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1932 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1933 romanisation
1934 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1935 and +/-
1936 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1937 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1938 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1939 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1940 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1941 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1942 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1943 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1944 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1945 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1946 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1947 all locales
1948 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1949 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1950 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1951 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1952 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1953 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1954 execute
1955 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1956 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1957 -Wsystem-headers
1958 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1959 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1960 Romanian locale data
1961 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1962 symbol
1963 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1964 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1965 language
1966 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1967 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1968 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1969 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1970 machine
1971 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1972 description
1973 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1974 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1975 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1976 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1977 when using RTLD_NEXT
1978 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1979 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1980 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1981 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1982 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1983 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1984 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1985 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1986 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1987 Excavator core
1988 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1989 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1990 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1991 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1992 double range
1993 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1994 part zero incorrect
1995 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1996 equality tests
1997 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1998 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1999 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2000 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2001 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2002 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2003 glibc-2.22
2004 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2005 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2006 'tst-numeric.c'
2007 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2008 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2009 low part
2010 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2011 result
2012 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2013 unaligned stack
2014 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2015 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2016 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2017 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2018 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2019 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2020 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2021 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2022 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2023 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2024 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2025 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2026 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2027 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2028 modes
2029 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2030 server addresses
2031 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2032 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2033 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2034 response to getaddrinfo
2035 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2036 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2037 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2038 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2039 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2040 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2041 sometimes incorrect
2042 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2043 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2044 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2045 record types
2046 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2047 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2048 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2049 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2050 (CVE-2016-3075)
2051 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2052 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2053 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2054 resolving symbols
2055 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2056 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2057 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2058 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2059 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2060 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2061 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2062 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2063 gethosts
2064 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2065 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2066 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2067 (CVE-2016-3706)
2068 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2069 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2070 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2071 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2072 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2073 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2074 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2075 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2076 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2077 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2078 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2079 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2080 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2081 executable
2082 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2083 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2084 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2085 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2086 XPG3
2087 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2088 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2089 (CVE-2016-4429)
2090 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2091 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2092 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2093 AS not supporting AVX512
2094 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2095 sNaN argument
2096 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2097 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2098 argument
2099 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2100 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2101 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2102 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2103 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2104 eax=0x80000001
2105 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2106 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2107 subnormals
2108 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2109 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2110 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2111 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2112 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2113 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2114 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2115 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2116 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2117 input
2118 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2119 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2120 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2121 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2122 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2123 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2124 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2125 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2126 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2127 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2128 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2129 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2130 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2131 double rounding
2132 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2133 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2134 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2135 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2136 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2137 (Only arm/linux)
2138 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2139 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2140 fallbacks
2141 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2142 "invalid" exceptions
2143 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2144 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2145 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2146 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2147 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2148 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2149 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2150 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2151 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2155* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2156 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2157 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2158 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2159 89, 16061, and 18568.
2160
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2161* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2162 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2163 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2164 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2165 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2166 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2167 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
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2169* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2170 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2171 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2172
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2173* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2174 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2175 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2176 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2177 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2178 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2179 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2180
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2181* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2182 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2183 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2184 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2185 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2186 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2187 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2188 Ericsson.)
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2190* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2191 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2192 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2193 independent of the GNU C Library.
2194
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2195* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2196 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2198* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2199 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2200 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2201 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2202 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2203 Linux kernel.
2204
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2205* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2206 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2208* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2209 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2210 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2211 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2212 defining their own copy.
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2214* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2215 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2216 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2218Security related changes:
2219
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2220* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2221 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2222
2223* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2224 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2225 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2226 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2227 (CVE-2015-8777)
2228
2229* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2230 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2231
2232* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2233 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
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2235* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2236 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2237 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2239* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2240 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2241 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2242 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2243 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2244 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2245 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2246 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2247 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2248 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2249 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2250 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2251 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2252
ad372e29 2253The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2255 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2256 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2257 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2258 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2259 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2260 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2261 use `mkstemp'
2262 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2263 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2264 overflow/underflow errors
2265 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2266 overflow/underflow
2267 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2268 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2269 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2270 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2271 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2272 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2273 are not contiguous
2274 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2275 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2276 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2277 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2278 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2279 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2280 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2281 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2282 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2283 all exceptions
2284 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2285 arguments
2286 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2287 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2288 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2289 should include
2290 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2291 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2292 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2293 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2294 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2295 GNU/Linux
2296 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2297 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2298 arguments
2299 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2300 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2301 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2302 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2303 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2304 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2305 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2306 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2307 rounding results
2308 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2309 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2310 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2311 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2312 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2313 fails
2314 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2315 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2316 block boundary
2317 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2318 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2319 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2320 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2321 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2322 4.7?
2323 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2324 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2325 (related to lock elision)
2326 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2327 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2328 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2329 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2330 (CVE-2015-8779)
2331 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2332 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2333 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2334 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2335 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2336 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2337 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2338 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2339 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2340 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2341 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2342 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2343 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2344 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2345 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2346 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2347 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2348 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2349 contains a vector instruction exception.
2350 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2351 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2352 locales
2353 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2354 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2355 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2356 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2357 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2358 missing break ?
2359 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2360 32bit processes
2361 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2362 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2363 infinity
2364 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2365 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2366 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2367 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2368 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2369 be forced unloaded
2370 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2371 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2372 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2373 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2374 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2375 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2376 statically too large
2377 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2378 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2379 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2380 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2381 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2382 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2383 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2384 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2385 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2386 FUTEX_SHARED
2387 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2388 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2389 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2390 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2391 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2392 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2393 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2394 opendir()
2395 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2396 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2397 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2398 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2399 signgam
2400 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2401 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2402 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2403 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2404 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2405 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2406 dependencies
2407 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2408 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2409 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2410 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2411 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2412 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2413 (CVE-2015-8776)
2414 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2415 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2416 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2417 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2418 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2419 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2420 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2421 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2422 contention
2423 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2424 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2425 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2426 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2427 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2428 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2429 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2430 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2431 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2432 rounding modes
2433 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2434 ILP32
2435 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2436 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2437 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2438 threshold
2439 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2440 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2441 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2442 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2443 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2444 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2445 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2446 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2447 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2448 pthread_setaffinity_np
2449 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2450 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2451 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2452 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2453 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2454 prelink
2455 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2456 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2457 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2458 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2459 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2460 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2461 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2462 bits/mathcalls.h
2463 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2464 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2465 for C99-based standards
2466 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2467 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2468 math-only
2469 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2470 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2471 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2472 disabled
2473 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2474 "inexact" exceptions
2475 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2476 arguments
2477 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2478 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2479 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2480 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2481 rules
2482 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2483 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2484 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2485 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2486 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2487 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2488 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2489 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2490 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2491 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2492 from 32bit
2493 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2494 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2495 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2496 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2497 subnormals
2498 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2499 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2500 error on 32-bit architectures
2501 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2502 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2503 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2504 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2505 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2506 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2507 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2508 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2509 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2510 -Os
2511 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2512 CPU's.
2513 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2514 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2515 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2516 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2517 architectures
2518 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2521
2522* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2523
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2525 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2526 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2527 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2528 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2529 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2530 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2531 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2532 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2533 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2534 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2535 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2536 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2537 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2538 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2539 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2540 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2541 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2542 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2543 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
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2545* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2546 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2547
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2548* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2549 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2550 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2551 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2552 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2553 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
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2555* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2556 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2557 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2558 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2559 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2560
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2561* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2562 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2563 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2564
4a4839c9
AO
2565* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2566 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2567 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2568 17998.
2569
b13b96ca
AS
2570* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2571 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2572 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2573
2574* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2575 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2576 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2577 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2578 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2579 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2580 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2581 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2582
2583* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2584 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2585 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2586 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2587
2588* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2589 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2590 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
2591
2592* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2593 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
2594
2595* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2596 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2597 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2598
a03ba363 2599 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2600 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2601 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 2602\f
58b930ae
SP
2603Version 2.21
2604
2605* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2606
042e1521 2607 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
2608 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2609 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2610 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2611 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2612 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2613 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2614 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2615 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2616 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2617 17892.
2618
46d54873
FW
2619* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2620 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2621 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2622 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2623 intended.
042e1521
CD
2624
2625* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2626 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2627 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2628 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2629 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2630 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2631
522e6ee3
CLT
2632* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2633
d3b00f46
AZ
2634* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2635 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2636 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2637
8d2c0a59
AZ
2638* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2639 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2640 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2641 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2642 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2643 effects being visible outside transactions.
2644
dc400d7b
RE
2645* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2646 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2647
0f9dfe04
L
2648* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2649
a39208bd
CD
2650* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2651 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2652 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2653 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2654 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2655
a5357b7c
JL
2656* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2657 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2658
e54db0ea
AM
2659* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2660 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2661 format.
11e3417a 2662
4863355a
JM
2663* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2664 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2665 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2666
a4ecc9eb
JM
2667* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2668 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2669
0d560bbf 2670* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2671
2672* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2673 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2674 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2675 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2676
2677* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2678 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2679
2680* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2681 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2682 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2683 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2684 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2685 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2686 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2687 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2688 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2689 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2690 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2691 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2692 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2693
2694 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2695 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2696 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2697 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2698 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2699\f
d5b396c1
AM
2700Version 2.20
2701
2702* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2703
6a9350c8
JM
2704 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2705 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2706 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2707 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2708 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2709 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2710 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2711 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2712 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2713 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2714 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2715 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2716 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2717 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2718 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2719
95ee7fb1
SL
2720* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2721 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2722 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2723 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2724 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2725 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2726 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2727 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2728 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2729 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2730
0961f7e1
JL
2731* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2732 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2733 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2734 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2735 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2736
f940b965
RE
2737* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2738
d0f5b3f8
JM
2739* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2740 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2741
d6fe5e58
JM
2742* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2743 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2744 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2745 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2746 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2747 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2748
464263cc
JM
2749* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2750 from ports.
c941736c
JM
2751
2752* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2753 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2754 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2755 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2756 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2757 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2758 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2759
2760* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2761
2762* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2763 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2764 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2765 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2766 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2767 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2768 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2769
2770* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2771 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2772 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2773 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2774 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
2775
2776* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2777 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2778 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2779
2780* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2781 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2782 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2783 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
2784
2785* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2786 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2787 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2788 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2789 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2790 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2791 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2792 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
2793
2794* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2795 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2796 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2797 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2798 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2799 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2800 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2801 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2802 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2803
2804* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2805 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2806 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2807 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2808 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2809 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2810
2811* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2812 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2813 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2814 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
2815\f
2816Version 2.19
2817
2818* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2819
fd2f9486
JM
2820 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2821 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2822 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2823 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2824 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2825 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2826 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2827 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2828 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2829 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2830 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2831 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2832 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2833 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2834 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2835 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2836 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2837 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2838
11520a57
CD
2839* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2840 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2841
2fe16229
CD
2842* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2843 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2844 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
2845 extension which uses __block.
2846
303e567a
SP
2847* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2848 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2849 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2850 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2851 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2852
141f3a77
SP
2853* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2854 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2855 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2856 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2857 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2858
2859* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2860 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2861 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2862 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2863 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2864
2865* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2866 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2867 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2868
ba0d798c
WN
2869* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2870 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2871 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2872 #15856, #15857).
2873
7cbcdb36
SP
2874* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2875 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2876
82bab04b 2877* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2878 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2879
c5f840fd
MB
2880* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2881
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CD
2882* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2883 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2884
3e181dda 2885* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2886
8a05c252
CL
2887* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2888
6055173a
JM
2889* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2890 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2891 for which the C library was built.
2892
b125d3e5
JM
2893* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2894 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2895 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2896 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2897 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2898 in the following circumstances:
2899
2900 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2901
2902 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2903 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2904
d4f66d37
JM
2905* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2906 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2907
3e181dda
CD
2908* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2909 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2910
ffb89e53
AO
2911* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2912
5d29ccce
SP
2913* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2914 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2915
8b7d57cd 2916* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2917
2918* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2919
fd712ef3 2920* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2921
c688b419
JM
2922* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2923 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2924 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2925 disable some of those declarations.
2926
7011c262 2927* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2928 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2929 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2930
2931* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2932 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2933
2934* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2935 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2936 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2937 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2938 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2939 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2940 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2941 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2942 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2943 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2944 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2945 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2946 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
2947\f
2948Version 2.18
2949
2950* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2951
17db6e8d 2952 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2953 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2954 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
2955 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2956 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2957 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2958 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2959 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2960 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2961 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2962 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2963 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2964 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2965 15755, 15759.
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2966
2967* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2968 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2969 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2970 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2971 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2972 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2973
5b535ac4
AS
2974* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2975 #15078).
2976
1cef1b19
AS
2977* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2978 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2979
55e4107b
SP
2980* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2981 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2982 destructor calls to glibc.
2983
e5c74c63
SP
2984* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2985 output.
2986
2987* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2988 non-x86 architectures.
2989
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2990* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2991
2992* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2993
2994* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2995 Richard Henderson.
2996
2997* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2998
2999* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3000 Richard Henderson.
3001
3002* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3003 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3004
8cfdb7e0
SP
3005* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3006
57267616
TS
3007* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3008 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3009
c204ab28
SP
3010* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3011 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3012
0748546f
PE
3013* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3014 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3015 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3016
61dd6208
SP
3017* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3018 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3019 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3020
3021* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3022 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3023 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3024 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3025 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3026
3027* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3028 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3029
3030* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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3031\f
3032Version 2.17
3033
3034* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3035
80ceeaee 3036 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3037 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3038 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3039 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3040 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3041 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3042 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3043 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3044 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3045 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3046 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3047 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3048 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3049 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3050 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3051
95b4f1b6
SE
3052* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3053
14bc93a9
JL
3054* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3055 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3056
b54eb3cb
JM
3057* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3058 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3059
7e2bd01f
MS
3060* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3061
08f43f9b
AK
3062* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3063 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3064 zEnterprise z196.
3065 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3066
84b3fd84
FW
3067* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3068 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3069 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3070
815e6fa3
GB
3071* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3072 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3073
400726de
MK
3074* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3075 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3076
7aab07e4 3077* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3078 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3079
15d0da8c
WS
3080* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3081 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3082
3cc3ef96
RM
3083* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3084 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3085 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3086 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3087
b54eb3cb
JM
3088* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3089 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3090
85429b1a 3091* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3092 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3093 default.
3094
b54eb3cb
JM
3095* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3096 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3097 information in --help and --version output.
3098
050af9c4
SP
3099* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3100 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3101 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3102
89a3ad0b
AO
3103* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3104 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3105 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3106 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3107 when the mode is enabled.
3108
6e6249d0
RM
3109* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3110 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3111 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3112 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3113 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3114 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3115 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3116
d9286582
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3117* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3118 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3119\f
3120Version 2.16
3121
3122* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3123
a8133e19
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3124 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3125 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3126 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3127 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3128 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3129 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3130 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3131 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3132 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3133 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3134 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3135 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3136 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3137 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3138 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3139 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3140 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3141 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3142 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3143 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3144 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3145 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3146 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3147
a086b4d6
L
3148* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3149 configuring glibc with:
3150 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3151 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3152 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3153
380d7e87
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3154* ISO C11 support:
3155
3156 + define static_assert
3157
3158 + do not declare gets
3159
3160 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3161
3162 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3163 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3164 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3165 implementation.
8d44e150 3166
74033a25 3167 + timespec_get added
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3168
3169 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3170
ac097f5c
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3171 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3172
16dd419d
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3173 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3174
9dc4e1fb 3175* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
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3176
3177* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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3178
3179* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3180 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3181
3182* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3183 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3184
3185* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3186 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3187 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3188 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3189 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3190
21708942 3191* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3192 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3193 before 2.6.
83678f76 3194
edb00e4d
RH
3195* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3196 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3197 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3198
83678f76 3199* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3200
3201* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3202 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3203 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3204 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3205 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3206
3207* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3208
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3209* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3210 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3211
3212* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3213
3214* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3215 without a previously built glibc.
3216
3217* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3218 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3219
3220* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3221 now supported for ARM processors.
3222
3223* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3224 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3225 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3226
3227* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3228
3229* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3230 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3231 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3232 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3233
3234* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3235 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3236 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3237 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
3238
3239* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3240 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3241 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3242 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3243 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3244
3245* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3246 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3247 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3248 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3249\f
e80fab37 3250Version 2.15
11988f8f 3251
c0244a9d
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3252* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3253
aebae053
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3254 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3255 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3256 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3257 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3258 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3259 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3260 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3261
11988f8f
UD
3262* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3263 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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3264
3265* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3266 and support for initgroups lookups.
3267 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3268
3269* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3270 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3271
3272* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3273 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3274
fc2ee42a
LD
3275* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3276 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3277 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3278
d42964a0 3279* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
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3280 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3281
1d3e4b61
UD
3282* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3283 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3284 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3285
c55fbd1e
UD
3286* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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3288
3289* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
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3291
3292* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3293 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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3294
3295* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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3297
3298* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3299 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3300
3301* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3302 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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3303
3304* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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3305
3306* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3307 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3308
f0b264f1
AZ
3309* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3310 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3311
6b64057b 3312* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3313\f
dded88cd 3314Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3315
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3316* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3317
553149f6 3318 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3319 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3320 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3321 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3322 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3323 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3324 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3325 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3326 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3327 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3328
7b57bfe5
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3329* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3330 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3331 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3332 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3333
3334 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3335 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3336 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3337 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3338
c6489db3 3339* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3340 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3341
72d1dddb 3342* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3343 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3344
3345* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3346
3347* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3348 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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3349
3350* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3351 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3352 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3353 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3354\f
4828935d
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3355Version 2.13
3356
ac2b484c
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3357* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3358
c30b7ee2
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3359 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3360 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3361 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3362 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3363 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3364
10b3bedc 3365* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3366
ac2b484c 3367* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3368
e9f82e0d
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3369* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3370 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3372\f
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3373Version 2.12
3374
d36b9613
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3375* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3376
2e0fb521
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3377 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3378 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3379 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3380 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3381 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3382 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3383 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3384 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3386* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3388* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3389
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3390* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3391
3392* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3393 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3395
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3397 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3398 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3399 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3400 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3401
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3405
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3407
3408 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3409 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3410 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3411 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3412 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3413 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3414
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3416 mkostemps64
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3418
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3420 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3421
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3422* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3423 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3424
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3425* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3426
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9d36a6c4 3428 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3429 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3431
9d36a6c4 3432 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3434
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3435* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3436 strstr, strcasestr.
3437 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3438
3439* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3440 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3441
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3442* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3443 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3444
3445* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3447
3448* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3449 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3450 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3451 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3452 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3453 necessity is every process again.
3454 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3455
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3457 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3458
3459* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3460 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3461
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3462* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3463 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3465
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3469
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3471
3472 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3473 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3474 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3475 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3476 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3477
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3480
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e109c612 3482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3483
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735be400 3485 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3488 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3490* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3491 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3493* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3495
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3496* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3497 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3498
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3499* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3500 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3501
3502* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3503 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3504 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3505
735be400 3506* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 3508* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3510
3511* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3512 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3514
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3515* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3517
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3518* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3519 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3520 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3521 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3522 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3525Version 2.9
3526
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3528
3529 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3530 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3531 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3532 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3533 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3534
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3536 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3537
3538* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3539 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3541* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3542 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3544* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3545 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3546 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3547
3548* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3549 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3553* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3554 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3556* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3557 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3558 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3560
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3561* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3562 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3564* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3565 Sinhala)
48b22986 3566 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3568* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3570Version 2.8
3571
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3573
3574 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3575 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3576 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3577 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3578 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3579 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3580 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3581
e038616f 3582* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 3584* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3586* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3587 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3588
3589* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3590
3591* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3593
3594* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3595 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3596
3597* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3598 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3599 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3600
3601* Faster memset for x86-64.
3602 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3603
3604* Faster memcpy on x86.
3605 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3606
3607* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3608 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3610* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3611 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3614
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3615* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3616
3617 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3618 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3619 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3620 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3621 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3622
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3623* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3624 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3625
3626* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3627
3628* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3629 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3630 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3631
3632* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3633 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3634
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3636 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3637
3638* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3639
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3640* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3641 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3642
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3643* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3644 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3645
3646* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3647 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3648
3649* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3650
3651* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3652 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3654* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3655 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3656 yo_NG.
3657
3658+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3659 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3664
3665 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3666 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3667 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3668 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3669 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3670 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3671 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3672 4702, 4858
3673
bce20b9a 3674* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3676* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3677
b21fa963 3678* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3681
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3682* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3683
3684 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3685 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3686 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3687 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3688 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3689 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3690 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3691 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3692 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3693
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3695 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3696 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3698* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3699 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3700
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3703* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3705* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3706 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3707 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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3710
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3712 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3713 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3714 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3715
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3717 Ulrich Drepper.
3718
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3719* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3720
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3721* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3722 Ulrich Drepper.
3723
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3724* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3725
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3726* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3727 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3730
3731* More overflow detection functions.
3732
3733* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3734 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3736 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3737 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3738 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3739 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3740 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3741 by Masahide Washizawa.
3742
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3744 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3746* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3747 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3748 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3749 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3751* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3752 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3753
3754* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3755
3756* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3757 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3758 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3759
3760* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3761 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3762
3763* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3764 for compatibility with some other systems.
3765
3766* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3769
3770* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3771
3772 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3773 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3774 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3775 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3776 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3777 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3778
3779 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3780
3781* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3782
3783* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3786
3787* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3788
3789 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3790 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3791 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3792 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3793
3794 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3797
3798* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3799 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3801* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3802 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3803 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3804
3805* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3806 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3807
0325dd20 3808* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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3809 efficiently.
3810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3811
3812* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3813 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3814 handling data.
3815
3816* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3817 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3818 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3819
3820* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3821 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3822
3823* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3824 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3825 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3826 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3827
3828* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3829 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3830 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3831 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3832
3833* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3834 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3835 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3836 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3837 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3839Version 2.3.3
3840
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3841* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3842 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3843
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3844* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3845 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3846
69be6aaf 3847* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3848 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3849
3850* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3852
3853* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3854 by Roland McGrath.
3855
c5af724c 3856* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3857 and Ulrich Drepper.
3858
3859* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3860 RFC 3484.
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3862Version 2.3.2
3863
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3864* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3865 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3866 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3867 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3868 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3869 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3870 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3871 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3872 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3873
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3874* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3875 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3876 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3877
3878* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3879
3880* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3881 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 3882
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3883* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3884 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3885
52a16e58 3886* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 3887
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3888* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3889 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3890
3891* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3892 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3893 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3894 of weak definition in ld.so.
3895
3896* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3897 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3898
3899* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3900 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3904* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3905 charsets.
3906
3907* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3908 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3909
bb0ec5bd 3910* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3911 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3912
3913* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3914 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3915
bb0ec5bd 3916* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3917 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3918 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3919
3920* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3921 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3922
bb0ec5bd 3923* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3924 implementation of regex.
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3925
3926* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3927 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 3928
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3929* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3930 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 3931
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3932* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3933 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3934 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3935
3936* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3937 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3938
3939* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3940 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3941 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3942
3943* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3944 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3945
3946* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3947 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3948 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3949
3950* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
3951\f
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3952Version 2.2.6
3953
3954* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3955 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3956
3957* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3958 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3960Version 2.2.5
3961
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3962* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3963 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 3964
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3965* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3966 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3967
ad2e4f18 3968* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 3969
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3970* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3971
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3972* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3973 as well.
3974
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3975* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3976 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3977
3978* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3980Version 2.2.4
3981
2995f70e 3982* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3983 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3984
3985* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3986 support Unicode 3.1.
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3987
3988* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3989 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3990
69d5f925 3991* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3992
69d5f925 3993* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3994 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3995 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3996
3997* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3998 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3999
4000* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4001 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4002
4003* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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4005Version 2.2.3
4006
1746f2b0 4007* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4008 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4009 in float, double, and long double format.
4010
f128331c 4011* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4012 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4013 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4014
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4015* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4016 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4017 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4018 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4019
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4020* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4021 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4022 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4023
4024* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4025 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4026
4027* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4028 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4029
4030* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4031 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4032 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4033
4034* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4035 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4036
4037* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4038 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4039
4040* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4042Version 2.2.2
4043
464d97ec 4044* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4045 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4046 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4047 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4048 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4049 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4050 other headers.
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4051
4052* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4053 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4054
4055* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4056 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4057 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4058 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4059
4060* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4061 locales. While
4062
4063 locale -a
4064
4065 only lists the names of the supported locales
4066
4067 locale -a --verbose
4068
4069 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4070 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4072Version 2.2.1
4073
4074* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4075 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4076 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4077 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4078 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4079
4080 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4081
4082 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4083
4084 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4085
4086* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4087 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4088 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4089
4090* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4091 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4092
4093* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4094 changed from the default "C" locale.
4095
4096* The usual bug fixes.
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4098Version 2.2
4099
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4100* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4101 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4102 is in progress.
4103
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4104* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4105
793bd4d9 4106* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4107
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4108 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4109 obviously requires a database library being available.
4110
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4111* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4112
abbffdf9 4113* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4114
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4115* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4116 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4117
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4118* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4119
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4120* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4121 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4122 and Mark Kettenis.
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4123
4124 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4125 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4126 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4127
a00c3ca9 4128 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4129 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4130
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4131* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4132 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4133 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4134
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4135* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4136 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4137 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4138 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4139
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4140 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4141 structures for the wide character tables.
4142
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4143* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4144
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4145* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4146
4147* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4148
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4149* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4150 and Yutaka Niibe.
4151
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4152* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4153
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4154* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4155
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4156* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4157
4158* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4159
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4160* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4161
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4162* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4163 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4164 implemented for Linux.
4165
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4166* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4167 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4168 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4169 versions.
4170
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4171* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4172 Masahide Washizawa.
4173
8f3f1e09 4174* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4175\f
4176Version 2.1.3
4177
4178* bug fixes
4179
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4180\f
4181Version 2.1.2
4182
4183* bug fixes
4184
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4186Version 2.1.1
4187
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4188* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4189
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4190* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4191
407d26b7 4192* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4193
4194* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4195
407d26b7 4196* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4197
407d26b7 4198* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4199
4200* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4201
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4202* lots of charmaps corrections
4203
4204* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4205
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4207Version 2.1
4208
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4209* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4210 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4211 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4212 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4213 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4214 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4215
c84142e8 4216* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4217 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4218
1fb05e3d 4219* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4220 symbol level.
4221
4222* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4223 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4224
cbdee279 4225* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4226
4227* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4228 numbers.
377a515b 4229
cbdee279 4230* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4231
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4232* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4233 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4234
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4235* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4236 library.
4237
e61abf83 4238* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4239 functions from ISO C 9X.
4240
4241* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4242 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4243
a5a0310d 4244* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 4245
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4246* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4247
4248* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4249
440d13e2 4250* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4251
4252* Optimized string functions have been added.
4253
4254* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4255
4256* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 4257
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4258* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4259 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4260
4261 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4262 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4263
0dee6738 4264 user system wall
48244d09 4265
0dee6738 4266 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4267
0dee6738 4268 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4269
0dee6738 4270 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4272 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4273
4274 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4275
4276 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4278 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4279 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 4280 horribly slow.
48244d09 4281
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4282 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4283 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4284
4285* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4286
4287* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4288
4289* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4290 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4291
4292* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 4293
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4294* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4295 Bambrough.
4296
4297* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4298 latest draft standards.
4299
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4300* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4301
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4302* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4303~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4305alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4306argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4307argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4308argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4309argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4310argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4311argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4312argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4313argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4314argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4315argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4316authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4317authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4318authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4319backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4320backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4321backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4322cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4323cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4324cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4325cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4326cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4327cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4328capget NEW: kernel
4329capset NEW: kernel
4330carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4331cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4332cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4333casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4334casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4335casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4336casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4337casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4338casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4339catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4340catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4341catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4342catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4343catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4344catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4347ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4348ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4349ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4350ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4351ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4352cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4353cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4354cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4355cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4356cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4357cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4358clearerr_locked REMOVED
4359clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4360clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4361clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4362clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4363clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4364clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4365clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4366conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4367conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4368conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4369cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4370cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4371cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4372cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4373cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4374cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4375creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4376crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4377creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4378creat64 NEW: LFS
4379csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4380csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4381csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4382csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4383csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4384csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4385csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4386csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4387csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4388ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4389ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4390ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4391ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4392ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4393ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4394des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4395ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4396endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4397exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4398exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4399exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4400exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4401exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4402exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4403fattach NEW: STREAMS
4404fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4405fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4406fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4407fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4408feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4409fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4410fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4411fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4412feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4413feof_locked REMOVED
4414feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4415ferror_locked REMOVED
4416fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4417fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4418fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4419fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4420feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4421fflush_locked REMOVED
4422ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4423ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4424fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4425fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4426fileno_locked REMOVED
4427fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4428fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4429fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4430fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4431fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4432fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4433fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4434fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4435fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4436fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4438fputc_locked REMOVED
4439fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4440fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4441freopen64 NEW: LFS
4442fseeko NEW: Unix98
4443fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4444fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4445fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4446fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4447ftello NEW: Unix98
4448ftello64 NEW: LFS
4449ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4450ftw64 NEW: LFS
4451fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4452gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4453gamma_r REMOVED
4454gammaf_r REMOVED
4455gammal_r REMOVED
4456getchar_locked REMOVED
4457getdate NEW: Unix98
4458getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4459getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4460getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4461getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4464getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4465getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4467getutxid NEW: Unix98
4468getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4470globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4471gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4472gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4473grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4474host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4475iconv NEW: iconv
4476iconv_close NEW: iconv
4477iconv_open NEW: iconv
4478if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4479if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4480if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4481if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4482in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4483in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4484inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4485isastream NEW: STREAMS
4486iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4487key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4488key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4489key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4490key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4491key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4492key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4493key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4494key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4495key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4496llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4497llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4498llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4499llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4500llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4501llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4502log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4503log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4504log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4505lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4506lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4507lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4508lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4509lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4510lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4511lseek64 NEW: LFS
4512makecontext NEW: Unix98
4513mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4514mmap64 NEW: LFS
4515moncontrol REMOVED
4516modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4517nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4518nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4519nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4520nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4521nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4522nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4524netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4526nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4527nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4529nftw64 NEW: LFS
4530open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4531passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4532pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4533pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4534pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4535pread NEW: Unix98
4536pread64 NEW: LFS
4537printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4538printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4539profil_counter REMOVED
4540pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4541pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4542ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4543ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4544putc_locked REMOVED
4545putchar_locked REMOVED
4546putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4547putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4548putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4549pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4551pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4552readdir64 NEW: LFS
4553readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4554remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4555remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4556remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4557round NEW: ISO C 9x
4558roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4559roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4560rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4561scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4562scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4563scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4564scandir64 NEW: LFS
4565sendfile NEW: kernel
4566setcontext NEW: Unix98
4567setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4568setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4570sigignore NEW: Unix98
4571sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4572sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4573sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4574sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4575sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4576sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4577sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4578sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4579statfs64 NEW: LFS
4580statvfs NEW: Unix98
4581statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4582strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4583strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4584strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4585strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4586svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4587svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4588svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4589swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4590tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4591tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4592tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4593tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4594tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4595tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4596trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4597truncate64 NEW: LFS
4598truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4599truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4600umount2 NEW: kernel
4601unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4602updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4603user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4604utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4605versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4606versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4607waitid NEW: Unix98
4608wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4609wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4610wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4611wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4612wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4613wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4614wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4615wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4616wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4617wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4618write_profiling REMOVED
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4619xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4620xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4621xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4622xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4623xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4624xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4625xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4626xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4627xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4628xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4629xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4630xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4631xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4632xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 4634~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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4636Version 2.0.6
4637
4638* more bug fixes
4639
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4640\f
4641Version 2.0.5
4642
4643* more bug fixes
4644
4645* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4646
4647* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4648
4649* rewrite of cbrt function
4650
4651* update of timezone data
4652\f
4653Version 2.0.4
4654
4655* more bug fixes
4656\f
4657Version 2.0.3
4658
4659* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4660\f
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4661Version 2.0.2
4662
4663* more bug fixes
4664
4665* add atoll function
4666
4667* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4669* fix math functions
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4670\f
4671Version 2.0.1
4672
4673* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4674
4675* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4676
4677* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4678 the ELF dynamic loader.
4679
4680* support for parallel builds is improved
4681\f
40a4b79f 4682Version 2.0
28f540f4 4683
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4684* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4685 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4686 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4687
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4688* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4689 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4690 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4691 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4692 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4693 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4694 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4695 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4696 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4697 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4698 files in the ELF format.
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4699
4700* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4701 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4702
4703* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4704 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4705 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4706 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4707 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4708 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4709 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4710 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4711 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4712 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4713 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4715* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4716 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4717 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4718 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4719 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4720
f7eac6eb 4721* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4722 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4723 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4724 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4725 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4726
4727* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4728
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4729* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4730 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4731 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4732 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4733 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4734 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4735 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4736 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4737 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4738
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4739* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4740 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4741 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4742
4743* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4744 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4745 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4746
4747* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4748 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4749 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4750 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4751
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4752* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4753 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4754 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4755
4756* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4757 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4758 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4759
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4760* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4761 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4762
f7eac6eb 4763* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4764 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4765 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4766 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4767
4768* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4769 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4770 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4771
71733723 4772* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4773 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4774 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4775 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4776 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4777 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4778 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4779 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4780
4781* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4782 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4783 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4784 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4785 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4786 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4787 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4788
4789* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4790 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4791 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4792 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4793 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4794 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4795
4796* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4797 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4798
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4799* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4800 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4801 NSS scheme used in glibc.
28f540f4 4802
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4803* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4804
4805* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4806 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4807 their use is discouraged.
4808
4809* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4810 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4812* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4813 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4814
4815* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4816 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4817
4818* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4819 see <dirent.h>.
4820
4821* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4822 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4823 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4824 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4825 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4826
4827* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4828 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4829 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4830 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4831
4832* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4833 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4834
4835* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4836 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4837 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4838 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4839 number generator.
4840
4841* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4842 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4843
4844* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4845 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4846
71733723 4847* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4848 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4849 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4850 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 4851
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4852* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4853
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4854* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4855 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4856 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4857
4858* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4859 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4861* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4862 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4863 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4864 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4865
4866* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4867 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4868 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4869 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4870 programs already written to use it.)
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4871
4872* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4873 constants.
4874
4875* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4876 with 4.4 BSD.
4877
4878* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4879 a given effective group ID.
4880
4881* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4882 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4883 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4884 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4885
4886* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4887 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4888 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4889 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4890 doing the same thing.
4891
4892* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4893 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4894
4895* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4896 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4897
4898* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4899
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4900* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4901 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4902 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4903 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4904 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4905
4906* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4907 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4908
4909* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4910 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4911 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4912 function.
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4913
4914* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4915
4916* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4917 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4918 strings.
4919
4920* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4921 and writing the utmp file.
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4922
4923* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4924 Thorsten Kukuk.
4925
4926* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4927 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4928 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4929
4930* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4931 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4932
4933* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4934 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4935 specification.
4936
4937* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4938 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4939 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4940 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4941
4942* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4943 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4944 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4945
4946* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4947 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4948 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4949 expression matcher.
4950
4951* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4952 functionality.
4953
4954* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4955 by Ulrich Drepper.
4956
4957* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4958
4959* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4960 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4961 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4963Version 1.09
4964
4965* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4966
4967* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4968 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4969
4970* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4971 want to put themselves in the background.
4972
4973* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4974 run without an operating system.
4975
4976* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4977 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4978
4979* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4980 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4981
4982* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4983
4984* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4985 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4986 have YP (aka NIS).
4987
4988* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4989 conventions.
4990
4991* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4992 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4993\f
4994Version 1.08
4995
4996* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4997 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4998 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4999
5000* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5001 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5002
5003* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5004 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5005
5006* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5007
5008* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5009
5010* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5011 compatibility.
5012
5013* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5014 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5015 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5016
5017* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5018
5019* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5020 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5021 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5022
5023* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5024 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5025 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5026 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5027 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5028 on a block).
5029
5030* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5031 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5032 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5033 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5034 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5035 cross-compiler.
5036
5037* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5038 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5039\f
5040Version 1.07
5041
5042* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5043 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5044
5045* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5046 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5047 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5048
5049* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5050 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5051 address of the last character written.
5052
5053* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5054 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5055
5056* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5057 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5058
5059* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5060 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5061 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5062 you dereference this pointer.
5063
5064* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5065 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5066
5067* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5068 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5069 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5070 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5071
5072* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5073 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5074 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5075 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5076\f
5077Version 1.06
5078
5079* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5080 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5081 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5082 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5083 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5084
5085* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5086
5087* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5088
5089* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5090 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5091
5092* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5093 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5094
5095* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5096 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5097
5098* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5099 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5100 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5101 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5102 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5103
5104* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5105 to the error code in `errno'.
5106
5107* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5108 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5109 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5110 malloc'd string.
5111
5112* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5113 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5114 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5115
5116* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5117 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5119Version 1.05
5120
5121* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5122 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5123 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5124
5125* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5126 characters.
5127
5128* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5129 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5130
5131* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5132\f
5133Version 1.04
5134
5135* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5136 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5137 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5138 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5139
5140* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5141 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5142 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5143
5144* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5145 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5146
5147* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5148 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5149 made itself into a shared library.
5150
5151* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5152 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5153
5154* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5155 with limited length.
5156
5157* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5158
5159* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5160
5161* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5162
5163* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5164 function for traversing a directory tree.
5165
5166* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5167 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5168 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5169 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5170
5171* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5172 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5173
5174* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5175
5176* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5177 things to your strings.
5178
5179* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5180
5181* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5182 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5183 supporting those systems.
5184
5185* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5186 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5187 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5188 configuration files.
5189
5190* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5191 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5192
5193* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5194 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
5195 in <strings.h>.)
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5196
5197* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5198 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5199 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5200 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5201 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5202 required storage is not available.
5203
5204* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5205 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5206
5207* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5208 latest files released from Berkeley.
5209\f
5210----------------------------------------------------------------------
5211Copyright information:
5212
09533208 5213Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5214
5215 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5216 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5217 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5218 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5219
5220 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5221 of this document, or of portions of it,
5222 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5223 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5224\f
5225Local variables:
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