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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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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 2.33
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10Major new features:
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12* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
13 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
14 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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16* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
17 to change argv[0] string.
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19* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
20 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
21 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
22 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
23 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
24 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
25 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
26 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
27 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
28
29* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
30 information and library search path diagnostics.
31
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32* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
33 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
34 larger than fit in an integer.
35
96203980 36* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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38* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
39 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
40
41 - rv32imac ilp32
42 - rv32imafdc ilp32
43 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
44
45 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
46 2.28.
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48* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
49 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
50 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
51 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
52 fortification.
53
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54Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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56* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
57 mallinfo2 instead.
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59* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
60 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
61 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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63* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
64 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
65 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
66 prlimit.
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68* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
69 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
70 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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72* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
73 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
74 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
75 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
76 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
77 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
78
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79* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
80 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
81 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
82 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
83 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
84 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
85 loaded.
86
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87Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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89* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
90 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
91 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
92 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
93 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
94 perform any adjustments.
95
96* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
97 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
98 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
99 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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101* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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103Security related changes:
104
d7f4f3f5 105 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
934c48a0 106 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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107 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
108 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
109 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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111 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
112 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
113 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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115 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
116 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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118 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
119 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
120
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121The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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123 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
124 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
125 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
126 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
127 AT_EACCESS
128 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
129 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
130 "haswell" platform subdirectory
131 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
132 with GCC
133 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
134 stack-protector=all
135 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
136 cases
137 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
138 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
139 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
140 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
141 changing gnuc version
142 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
143 incorrect
144 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
145 bits
146 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
147 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
148 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
149 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
150 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
151 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
152 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
153 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
154 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
155 too much stack space
156 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
157 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
158 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
159 with optimization.
160 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
161 anymore
162 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
163 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
164 non-FMA4 system
165 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
166 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
167 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
168 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
169 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
170 getaddrinfo
171 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
172 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
173 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
174 fault
175 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
176 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
177 at the end of a memory mapping
178 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
179 by the caller to the kernel
180 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
181 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
182 declarations for __sigsetjmp
183 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
184 monotonic clocks
185 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
186 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
187 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
188 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
189 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
190 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
191 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
192 one element
193 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
194 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
195 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
196 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
197 lazy bound
198 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
199 PI mutexes
200 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
201 not safe
202 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
203 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
204 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
205 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
206 platform
207 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
208 startup code
209 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
210 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
211 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
212 protected
213 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
214 only since 2.31
215 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
216 locked
217 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
218 aligned
219 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
220 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
221 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
222 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
223 detection logic
224 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
225 pclose(3))
226 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
227 setup
228 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
229 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
230 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
231 work
232 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
233 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
234 [27177] dynamic-link:
235 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
236 work
237 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
238 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
239 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
240 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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243Version 2.32
244
245Major new features:
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247* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
248 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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249 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
250
251* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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253* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
254 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
255 Three ABIs are supported:
256
257 - arc-linux-gnu
258 - arc-linux-gnuhf
259 - arceb-linux-gnu
260
4d3a77c7 261 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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262 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
263
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264* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
265 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
266
051be01f 267* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 268 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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269 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
270 this option.
271
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272* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
273 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
274 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
275
4d3a77c7 276* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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277 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
278 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
279
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280* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
281 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
282 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
283 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
284 libpthread.
285
bfe05aa2 286* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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287 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
288 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
289 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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290 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
291 NULL for an invalid signal number.
292
293 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
294 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
295
325081b9 296* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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297 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
298 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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299 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
300 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
301 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
302
303 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
304 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
305
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306* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
307 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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308 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
309 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
310 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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311 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
312 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
313 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
314 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
315 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
316 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
317 BTI compatible.
318
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319Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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321* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
322 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
323 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
324 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
325 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
326 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
327 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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329* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
330 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
331 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
332 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
333 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
334 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
335 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 336 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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337 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
338
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339* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
340 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
341 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
342 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
343 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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345* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
346 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
347 was not declared in any header file.
348
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349* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
350 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
351 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
352 sigaction functions instead.
353
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354* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
355 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
356
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357* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
358 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
359 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
360 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
361 strsignal instead.
362
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363* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
364 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 365 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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366 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
367 strerror or strerror_r instead.
368
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369* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
370 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
371 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
372 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
373
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374* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
375 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
376 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
377 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
378 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
379 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
380 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
381
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382* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
383 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
384 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
385 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
386 flavor of secure RPC.)
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388* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
389 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
390 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
391 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
392 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
393 object, to enable the hooks.
394
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395* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
396 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
397 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
398 LDAP.
399
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400Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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402* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
403 long double redirects.
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405Security related changes:
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407 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
408 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
409 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
410
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411 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
412 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
413 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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415 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
416 expanding ~user has been fixed.
417
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418 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
419 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
420 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
421 TALOS-2020-1019).
422
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423The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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425 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
426 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
427 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
428 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
429 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
430 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
431 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
432 filtee has constructor
433 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
434 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
435 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
436 character entities for infinity & pi
437 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
438 segfaults in applications
439 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
440 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
441 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
442 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
443 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
444 function with -mlong-double-64
445 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
446 binding
447 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
448 ld.so.cache
449 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
450 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
451 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
452 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
453 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
454 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
455 linker
456 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
457 dynamically loaded dsos
458 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
459 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
460 access
461 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
462 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
463 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
464 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
465 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
466 stale configuration forever
467 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
468 (CVE-2020-10029)
469 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
470 defaults to PIE
471 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
472 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
473 (CVE-2020-6096)
474 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
475 on 32 bit and old kernel
476 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
477 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
478 Occitan
479 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
480 amount of sigset_t bytes
481 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
482 strings
483 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
484 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
485 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
486 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
487 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
488 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
489 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
490 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
491 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
492 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
493 size_t
494 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
495 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
496 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
497 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
498 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
499 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
500 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
501 cpu=power9
502 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
503 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
504 segfault
505 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
506 exiting detached thread
507 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
508 for x32
509 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
510 ERANGE
511 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
512 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
513 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
514 dependencies in audit mode
515 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
516 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
517 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
518 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
519 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
520 input
521 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
522 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
523 preserve r2
524 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
525 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
526 variables
527 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
528 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
529 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
530 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
531 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
532 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
533 corruption in memset
534
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537
538Major new features:
539
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540* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
541 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
542 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
543 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
544 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
545 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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547* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
548 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
549 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
550 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
551
69ca4b54 552* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 553 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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555
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556* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
557
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558* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
559 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
560 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
561 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
562 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
563 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
564 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
565 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
566
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568
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569* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
570 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
571 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
572 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
573 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
574 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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578 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
579
580* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
581 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
582 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
583 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
584
585* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
586 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
587 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
588 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
589 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
590 made this no longer practical.
591
592 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
593 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
594 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
595 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
596 release.)
597
598 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
599 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
600 with the current time, use the localtime function.
601
602 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
603 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
604 using clock_gettime instead.
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607 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
608 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
609 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
610 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
611
612 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
613 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
614 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
615 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
616
617 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
618 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
619 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
620 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
621 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
622 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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625 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
626 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
627 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
628 offset API.
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630* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
631 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
632 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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635 configurations.
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638 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
639 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
640 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
641 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
642
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644 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
645 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
646 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
647 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
648 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
649 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
650 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
651
652 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
653 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
654
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655* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
656 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
657 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
658 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
659 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
660 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
661
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663
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666 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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669 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
670 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
671
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673
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674 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
675 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
676
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677 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
678 environment variable during program execution after a security
679 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
680 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
681 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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683The following bugs are resolved with this release:
684
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685 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
686 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
687 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
688 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
689 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
690 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
691 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
692 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
693 linking failure
694 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
695 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
696 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
697 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
698 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
699 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
700 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
701 constructors/destructors is not fatal
702 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
703 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
704 7408-2005
705 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
706 with localedef
707 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
708 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
709 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
710 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
711 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
712 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
713 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
714 utmp entries
715 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
716 ABSOLUTE ABI
717 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
718 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
719 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
720 (stringop-overflow error)
721 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
722 functions other can lead to crashes
723 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
724 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
725 unconditionally
726 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
727 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
728 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
729 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
730 still can fail with an error
731 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
732 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
733 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
734 initialized correctly
735 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
736 -frewrite-includes
737 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
738 value to an unsigned
739 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
740 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
741 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
742 protection
743 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
744 ifunc variant.
745 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
746 al. for Clang++
747 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
748 (Slovenian)
749 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
750 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
751 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
752 with -std=c11
753 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
754 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
755 part
756 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
757 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
758 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
759 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
760 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
761 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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765
766Major new features:
767
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769 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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770 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
771
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772* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
773 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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776 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
777 to the callback function.
778
51ea67d5 779* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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781* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
782 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
783 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
784
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785* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
786
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787* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
788 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
789 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
790 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
791 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
792
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793* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
794 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
795 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
796 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
797 link time reference, is gone.
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800 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
801 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
802 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
803 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
804 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
805 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
806 the clock choice at initialization time).
807
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809 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
810 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
811
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813
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814* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
815 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
816 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
817 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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819 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
820 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
821 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
822 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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825 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
826 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
827 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
828 since glibc 2.17.
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830* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
831 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
832
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833* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
834 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
835
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836* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
837 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
838
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839* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
840 BIND_NOW flag.
841
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843 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
844 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
845
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846* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
847 header have been removed.
848
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849* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
850 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
851 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
852 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
853
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857
858 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
859 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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861Security related changes:
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864 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
865 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
866 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
867 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
868 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
869 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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871 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
872 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
873 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
874
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877 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
878 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
879 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
880 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
881 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
882 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
883 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
884 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
885 invalid input drops valid char
886 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
887 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
888 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
889 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
890 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
891 malloc.h.
892 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
893 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
894 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
895 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
896 functions
897 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
898 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
899 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
900 for long double = double
901 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
902 long double = double
903 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
904 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
905 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
906 long timeouts
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909 checking for NULL.
910 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
911 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
912 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
913 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
914 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
915 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
916 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
917 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
918 not the default "nor"
919 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
920 false positives, change to modern flexible array
921 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
922 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
923 compiler barriers.
924 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
925 unnecessary librt dependencies
926 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
927 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
928 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
929 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
930 unsorted chunk
931 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
932 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
933 to R_SPARC_H44
934 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
935 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
936 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
937 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
938 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
939 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
940 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
941 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
942 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
943 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
944 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
945 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
946 was not used
947 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
948 tests
949 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
950 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
951 time_t changes
952 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
953 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
954 kernels and break testing
955 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
956 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
957 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
958 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
959 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
960 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
961 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
962 -O3 -march=skylake
963 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
964 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
965 crash
966 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
967 linked glibc
968 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
969 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
970 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
971 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
972 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
973 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
974 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
975 always implemented in the same library
976 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
977 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
978 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
979 testroot
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983
984Major new features:
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987 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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989* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
990 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
991 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
992 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
993 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
994 configured location.
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998* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
999 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1001* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1002 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1003 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1004 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1005 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1006 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1007 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1008 process actually does not use HTM).
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1011 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1012 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1013 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1014 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1015 of the same name.
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1017* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1018 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1019 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1023* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1024 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1025 supported:
1026 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1027 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1030 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1031 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1032 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1033 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1034 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1035 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1038 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1039 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1044 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1047 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1048 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1049 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1051* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1052 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1053 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1054 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1055 structures.
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1057* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1058 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1059 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1060 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1061 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1062 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1063
1064 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1065 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1066 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1067 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1068 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1069
1070 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1071 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1072 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1075
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1079 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1080
1081 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1082 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1085
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1086 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1087 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1088 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1090 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1091 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1092 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1093 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1094 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1095
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1096 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1097 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1098 or command injection issues in applications.
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1102 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1103 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1104 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1105 thousands
1106 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1107 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1108 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1109 --param options)
1110 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1111 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1112 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1113 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1114 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1115 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1116 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1117 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1118 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1119 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1120 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1121 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1122 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1123 pointer argument is non-NULL
1124 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1125 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1126 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1127 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1128 multithreads call popen
1129 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1130 and pthread_create fails.
1131 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1132 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1133 constructor
1134 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1135 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1136 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1137 source tree
1138 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1139 float
1140 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1141 one error
1142 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1143 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1144 linker
1145 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1146 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1147 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1148 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1149 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1150 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1151 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1152 filesystems
1153 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1154 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1155 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1156 functions
1157 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1158 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1159 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1160 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1161 have wrong type
1162 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1163 wrong type
1164 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1165 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1166 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1167 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1168 threads
1169 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1170 start.S
1171 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1172 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1173 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1174 powerpc64le
1175 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1176 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1177 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1178 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1179 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1180 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1181 strftime
1182 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1183 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1184 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1185 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1186 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1187 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1188 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1189 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1190 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1191 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1192 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1193 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1194 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1195 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1196 tcache size
1197 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1198 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1199 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1200 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1201 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1202 (CVE-2018-19591)
1203 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1204 nearest rounding mode
1205 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1206 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1207 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1208 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1209 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1210 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1211 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1212 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1213 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1214 error
1215 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1216 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1217 using GCC 8
1218 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1219 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1220 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1221 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1222 ppc64le
1223 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1224 expected result
1225 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1226 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1227 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1228 sigaltstack
1229 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1230 answers will be rejected)
1231 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1235
1236Major new features:
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1239 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1240 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1241 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1242 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1243 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1244 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1245 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1246 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1247 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1248 archive or binary locales.
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1251 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1252 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1253 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1254 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1255 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1256 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1257 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1259 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1260 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1261 validated for i686.
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1264 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1265 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1266 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1267 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1268 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1270* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1271 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1272 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1274* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1275 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1276
1277 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1278 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1280 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1281 fMxsubfNx functions.
1282
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1283 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1284 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1286 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1287 fMxdivfNx functions.
1288
e607a352 1289* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1290 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1291 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1293 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1295* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1296 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1298* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1299 patches.
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1302 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1303 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1304 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1305 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1306 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1307 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1308 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1311 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1312 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1313 the fstatat64 function.
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1315* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1316 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1317 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1318 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1319 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1320 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1321 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1322 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1323 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1326 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1327 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1328 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1329 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1330 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1331 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1332 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1333 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1334 results in a load failure now.
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1337 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1338 <threads.h>:
1339
1340 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1341 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1342
1343 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1344 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1345
1346 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1347
1348 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1349 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1350
1351 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1352
1353 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1358 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1359 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1360
1361* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1362 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1363 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1364 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1365 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1366 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1367
1368* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1369 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1370 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1371 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1372 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1373 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1374 (Bug #1190.)
1375
1376* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1377 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1378 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1379 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1380 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1381 further explanation.
1382
1383 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1384 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1385 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1389* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1390 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1391 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1392
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1393* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1394 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1395 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1396 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1398* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1399 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1400 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1401 for this function instead.
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1403* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1404 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1405 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1406
1407* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1408 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1409 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1410 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1412* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1413 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1414 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1415 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1416 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1418* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1419 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1420 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1421 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1422 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1423 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1424 such as libgcrypt.
1425
1426* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1427 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1428 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1429 enabled.
1430
1431* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1432 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1433 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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1435* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1436 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1437 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1438 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1439 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1440 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1441
1442 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1443 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1444 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1445 behavior in a future release.
1446
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1448
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1451Security related changes:
1452
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1453 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1454 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1455 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1456 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1458 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1459 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1460
1461 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1462 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1463 Izbyshev.
1464
1465 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1466 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1467 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1471 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1472 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1473 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1474 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1475 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1476 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1477 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1478 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1479 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1480 14651
1481 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1482 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1483 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1484 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1485 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1486 conversion is given
1487 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1488 date
1489 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1490 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1491 scope with -O1 and higher
1492 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1493 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1494 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1495 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1496 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1497 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1498 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1499 horrible machine code)
1500 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1501 last constant.
1502 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1503 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1504 symbols
1505 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1506 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1507 defined
1508 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1509 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1510 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1511 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1512 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1513 fpscr.c'
1514 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1515 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1516 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1517 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1518 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1519 the base address
1520 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1521 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1522 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1523 open_verify
1524 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1525 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1526 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1527 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1528 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1529 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1530 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1531 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1532 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1533 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1534 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1535 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1536 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1537 dlopen
1538 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1539 AT_SECURE=1
1540 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1541 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1542 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1543 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1544 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1545 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1546 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1547 for Spanish with CLDR
1548 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1549 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1550 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1551 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1552 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1553 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1554 es_BO
1555 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1556 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1557 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1558 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1559 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1560 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1561 dlopen failures
1562 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1563 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1564 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1565 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1566 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1567 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1568 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1569 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1570 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1571 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1572 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1573 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1574 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1575 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1576 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1577 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1578 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1579 makecontext
1580 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1581 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1582 required
1583 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1584 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1585 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1586 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1587 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1588 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1589 disabled
1590 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1591 failure
1592 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1593 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1594 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1595 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1596 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1597 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1598 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1599 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1600 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1601 and libc build with -Os)
1602 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1603 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1604 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1605 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1606 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1607 that changes /etc/passwd
1608 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1609 (CVE-2018-11237)
1610 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1611 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1612 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1613 posix/regcomp.c
1614 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1615 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1616 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1617 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1618 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1619 AT_SECURE
1620 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1621 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1622 parser.c
1623 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1624 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1625 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1626 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1627 directed rounding
1628 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1629 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1630 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1631 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1632 lookup
1633 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1634 interposition
1635 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1636 DSO boundaries.
1637 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1638 <linux/time.h>
1639 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1640 checking
1641 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1642 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1643 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1644 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1645 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1646 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1647 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1648 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1649 processors
1650 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1653Version 2.27
1654
1655Major new features:
1656
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1657* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1658 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1659 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1660 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1661 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1662 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1663 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1664 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1665 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 1667* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1668 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1669 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1671* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1672
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1675* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1676 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1677 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1678 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1679 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1680 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1681 from a security and performance perspective.
1682
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1683* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1684 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1685 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1686 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1687
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1689 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1690 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1691 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1692 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1693
a23aa5b7 1694* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1696 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1697 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1698 _Float128.
1699
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1700* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1701 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1702 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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1706* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1707 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1708 pkey_get.
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1710* The copy_file_range function was added.
1711
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1712* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1713
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1714* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1715 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1716 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1719 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1720 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1721 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1722 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1723 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1724 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1725
1726 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1727 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1728 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1729 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1730 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1731 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1732 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1733
1734 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1735 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1736 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1737 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1738 respectively.
1739
1740 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1741 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1742 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1743 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1745 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1746 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1747 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1748
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1750 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1751 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1754 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1755 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1756
1757 - rv64imac lp64
1758 - rv64imafdc lp64
1759 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1760
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1764 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1767 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1768 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1769 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1770 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1771 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1772 fix this.
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1775 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1776 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
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1778* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1779 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1780 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1781 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1782 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1783 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1784 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1785 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1786 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1787 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1788 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1789 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1790 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1791 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1792 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1793 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1794 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1795 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1796 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1797 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1798 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1799 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1800 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1801 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1802 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1803 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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1806 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1809 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1810 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1811 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1812 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1813 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1814 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1815
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JM
1816* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1817 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1818 exp10l for these functions instead.
1819
4fa9b3bf
JM
1820* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1821 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1822 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1823
644d3857
JM
1824* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1825 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1826 ignored.
1827
8df5d347
JM
1828* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1829 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1830 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1831 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1832
c0a25aa9
FW
1833* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1834 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1835
34eb4157
FW
1836* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1837 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1838
754034c4
JM
1839* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1840 programs.
1841
ed95f611
AZ
1842* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1843
48a8f832
ZW
1844* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1845 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1846 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1847 instead.
1848
1849 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1850 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1851 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1852 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1853 use, but predates the bits convention.
1854
00cdcf5a
SP
1855Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1856
1faaf703
JB
1857* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1858 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1859
1860Security related changes:
1861
403143e1
FW
1862 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1863 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1864 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1865 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1866 script.)
00cdcf5a 1867
822f523b
FW
1868 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1869 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1870 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1871 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1872
914c9994
FW
1873 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1874 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1875 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1876 of service.
1877
15e84c63
AJ
1878 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1879 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1880 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1881
37ac8e63
FW
1882 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1883 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1884 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1885 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1886
8a0b17e4
FW
1887 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1888 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1889 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1890 Qualys.
1891
3ff3dfa5
FW
1892 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1893 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1894 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1895 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1896 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1897
3e3c904d
AJ
1898 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1899 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1900 current directory.
1901
52a713fd
DL
1902 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1903 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1904 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1905
4590634f
FW
1906 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1907 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1908 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1909
71aa429b
FW
1910 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1911 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1912 small, instead of NULL.
1913
00cdcf5a
SP
1914The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1915
242cbc90
DL
1916 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1917 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1918 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1919 locale
1920 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1921 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1922 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1923 cases
1924 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1925 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1926 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1927 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1928 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1929 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1930 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1931 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1932 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1933 "Bangla"
1934 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1935 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1936 width Latin characters
1937 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1938 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1939 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1940 letters
1941 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1942 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1943 (CVE-2009-5064)
1944 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1945 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1946 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1947 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1948 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1949 if malloc succeeded
1950 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1951 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1952 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1953 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1954 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1955 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1956 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1957 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1958 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1959 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1960 U+309A
1961 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1962 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1963 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1964 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1965 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1966 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1967 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1968 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1969 for Nicaragua
1970 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1971 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1972 are not found.
1973 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1974 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1975 access
1976 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1977 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1978 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1979 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1980 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1981 __regcall calling convention
1982 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1983 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1984 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1985 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1986 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1987 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1988 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1989 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1990 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1991 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1992 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1993 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1994 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1995 locale
1996 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1997 protector=all
1998 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1999 wcwidth
2000 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2001 consistency check failures
2002 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2003 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2004 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2005 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2006 PIE
2007 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2008 locales
2009 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2010 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2011 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2012 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2013 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2014 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2015 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2016 on memory allocation failure
2017 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2018 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2019 the suspect)
2020 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2021 default (i386)
2022 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2023 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2024 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2025 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2026 instead of EAI_NODATA
2027 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2028 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2029 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2030 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2031 implementation
2032 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2033 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2034 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2035 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2036 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2037 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2038 allocation in syscall loops)
2039 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2040 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2041 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2042 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2043 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2044 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2045 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2046 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2047 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2048 occur with -O3
2049 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2050 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2051 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2052 amounts)
2053 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2054 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2055 niu_NZ
2056 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2057 checks
2058 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2059 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2060 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2061 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2062 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2063 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2064 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2065 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2066 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2067 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2068 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2069 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2070 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2071 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2072 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2073 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2074 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2075 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2076 parsing after OOM
2077 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2078 object
2079 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2080 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2081 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2082 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2083 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2084 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2085 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2086 ppc64le
2087 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2088 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2089 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2090 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2091 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2092 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2093 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2094 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2095 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2096 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2097 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2098 math_force_eval
2099 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2100 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2101 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2102 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2103 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2104 the svid compat wrapper
2105 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2106 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2107 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2108 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2109 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2110 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2111 --verbose.
2112 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2113 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2114 to 2.26
2115 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2116 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2117 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2118 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2119 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2120 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2121 (CVE-2017-15804)
2122 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2123 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2124 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2125 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2126 failure."
2127 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2128 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2129 -m32
2130 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2131 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2132 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2133 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2134 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2135 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2136 inside the ASCII printable range
2137 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2138 -mlong-double-64
2139 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2140 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2141 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2142 Internet
2143 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2144 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2145 backslash
2146 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2147 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2148 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2149 heaps in an arena
2150 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2151 networking interface
2152 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2153 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2154 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2155 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2156 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2157 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2158 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2159 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2160 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2161 order
2162 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2163 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2164 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2165 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2166 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2167 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2168 same as for Croatian
2169 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2170 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2171 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2172 for initial thread"
2173 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2174 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2175 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2176 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2177 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2178 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2179 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2180 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2181 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2182 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2183 modified in case of success
2184 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2185 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2186 success
2187 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2188 stack-protector=all
2189 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2190 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2191 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2192 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2193 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2194 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2195 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2196 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2197 adding it on top
2198 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2199 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2200 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2201 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2202 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2203 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2204 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2205 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2206 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2207 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2208 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2209 elision and tunables
2210 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2211 "invalid" exception
2212 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2213 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2214 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2215 exception
2216 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2217 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2218 power4
2219 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2220 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2221 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2222 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2223 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2224 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2225 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2226 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2227 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 2228
58557c22
SP
2229\f
2230Version 2.26
2231
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2232Major new features:
2233
d5c3fafc
DD
2234* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2235 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2236 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2237 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2238 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2239 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2240 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2241
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2242* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2243 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2244 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2245 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2246 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2247 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2248 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2250* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2251 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2252 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2253
2b2ccd0c 2254* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2255
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2256 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2257 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2258 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2260 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2261 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2262 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2263 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2264 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2266 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2267 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2268 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2270* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2271 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2273* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2274 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2275 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2276 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2278* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2279 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2280 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2281 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2283* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2284 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2285 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2286 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2288* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2289 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2290 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2291
2b2ccd0c 2292* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2293 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2294 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2295 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2296
2b2ccd0c 2297 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2298 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2299 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2300 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2301 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2302
2303 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2304 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2305 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2306 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2307 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2308 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 2309
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2310Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2311
2312* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2313 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2314 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2315 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2316 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2317 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2318 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2319 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2320
2321* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2322 removed.
2323
2324* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2325 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2326 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2327 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2328
2329* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2330 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2331 default.
2332
2333 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2334 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2335 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2336 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2337 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2338
2339 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2340 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2341 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2342 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2343
2344* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2345 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2346 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2347 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2348
2349* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2350 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2352* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2353 exported by accident.
2354
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2355* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2356 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2357 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2358
2359* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2360 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2361 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2362 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2363
2364* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2365
2366* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2367
2368* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2369 free instead.
2370
2371* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2372 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2373
2374* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2375 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2376
2377* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2378 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2379 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2380 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2381 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2382 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2383 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2384 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2385
2386* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2387 synced with the kernel:
2388
2389 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2390 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2391
2392 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2393 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2394 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2395
2396 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2397 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2398
2399Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2400
2401* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2402 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2403 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2404
7e368000 2405* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2407* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2408 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2410 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2411 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2412 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2413 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2414 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2416Security related changes:
2417
e14a2772 2418* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2419 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2420
2421* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2422 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2423
2424* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2425 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2426 (CVE-2010-3192).
2427
2428* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2429 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2430
2431The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2432
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2433 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2434 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2435 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2436 fields
2437 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2438 (CVE-2010-3192)
2439 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2440 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2441 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2442 ld.bfd is available
2443 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2444 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2445 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2446 x86 and other generic code
2447 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2448 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2449 incorrect
2450 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2451 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2452 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2453 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2454 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2455 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2456 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2457 resolver
2458 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2459 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2460 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2461 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2462 chillu characters
2463 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2464 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2465 receiving data
2466 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2467 whitespace
2468 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2469 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2470 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2471 for Peru
2472 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2473 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2474 failures consistently
2475 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2476 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2477 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2478 frame-pointer on i386
2479 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2480 register
2481 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2482 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2483 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2484 generic c code is used
2485 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2486 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2487 around 4000
2488 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2489 (CVE-2017-12133)
2490 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2491 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2492 with -lieee
2493 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2494 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2495 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2496 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2497 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2498 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2499 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2500 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2501 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2502 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2503 remove()
2504 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2505 checked for errors.
2506 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2507 new posix_spawn implementation
2508 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2509 leads to lower CPU frequency
2510 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2511 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2512 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2513 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2514 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2515 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2516 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2517 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2518 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2519 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2520 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2521 not support gethostbyname4_r
2522 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2523 switching
2524 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2525 arenas
2526 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2527 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2528 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2529 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2530 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2531 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2532 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2533 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2534 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2535 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2536 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2537 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2538 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2539 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2540 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2541 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2542 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2543 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2544 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2545 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2546 retry value
2547 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2548 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2549 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2550 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2551 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2552 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2553 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2554 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2555 [21537] libc:
2556 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2557 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2558 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2559 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2560 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2561 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2562 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2563 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2564 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2565 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2566 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2567 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2568 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2569 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2570 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2571 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2572 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2573 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2574 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2575 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2576 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2577 issue on x86-64
2578 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2579 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2580 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2581 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2582 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2583 construction
2584 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2585 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2586 between_2_3
2587 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2588 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2589 conditions
2590 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2591 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2592 Hindi Locale
2593 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2594 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2595 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2596 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2597 locale
2598 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2599 leading to relocation crash
2600 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2601 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2602 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2603 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2604 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2605 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2606 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2607 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2608 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2609 locale
2610 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2611 locale
2612 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2613 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2614 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2615 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2616 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2617 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2618 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2619 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2620 strings
2621 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2622 protector=all
2623 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2624 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2625 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2626 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2627 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2628 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2629 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2630 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2631 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2632 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2633 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2634 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2635 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2636 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2637 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2638 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2639 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2640 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2641 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2642 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2643 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2644 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2645 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2646 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2647 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2648 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2649 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2650 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2651 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2652 with unicode 9.0
2653 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2654 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2655 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2656 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2657 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2661
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2662* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2663 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2664 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2665 Library.
e720d3d9 2666
bf91be88
JM
2667* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2668 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2669 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
2670 the GNU C Library.
2671
412cb261
JM
2672* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2673 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2674 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2675 the GNU C Library.
2676
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ZW
2677* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2678 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2679 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2680 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2681 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2682 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2683 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2684 will not.
2685
2686 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2687 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2688 many years.
2689
dbab6577
ZW
2690* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2691 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2692 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2693
2694 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2695 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2696 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2697 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2698 problem.
2699
ec94343f 2700* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2701 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2702 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2703
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2704* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2705 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
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2706 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2707 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2708 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2709 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2710 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2711 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2712 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2713 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2714 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2715 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2716
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2717* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2718
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2719 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2720
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2721 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2722 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2723 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2724
55a38f82
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2725 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2726 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2727
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2728 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2729 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2730
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2731 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2732
29cb9293 2733 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2734
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JM
2735 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2736 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2737
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2738 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2739
eb3c12c7 2740 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2741 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2742
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2743* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2744 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2745
cecbc796
NA
2746* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2747 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2748 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2749
ea1bd74d
ZW
2750* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2751 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2752 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2753 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2754 effects of the memory clear).
2755
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2756* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2757 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2758 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2759 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2760
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2761* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2762 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2763 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2764 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2765 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2766 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2767
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2768* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2769 have been added.
2770
705a79f8
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2771* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2772 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2773 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2774 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2775 as large as several megabytes.
2776
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FW
2777* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2778 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2779 been removed.
2780
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FW
2781* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2782 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2783 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2784 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2785 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2786 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2787 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2788
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2789* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2790 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2791 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2792 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2793
099191b1 2794* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2795 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2796 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2797 Internet.
2798
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2799* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2800 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2801 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2802
b76e0659
FW
2803* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2804 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2805 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2806 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2807
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2808* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2809 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2810 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2811 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2812 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2813
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FW
2814* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2815 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2816 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2817 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2818 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2819
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2820* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2821 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2822 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2823 did not reflect that.
2824
022dfdce
SL
2825* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2826 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2827 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2828 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2829 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2830 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2831 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2832 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2833
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2834* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2835 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2836 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2837 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2838
7715d3ab
SP
2839* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2840 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2841 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2842 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2843
0cea3587
SP
2844* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2845 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2846 guarantees.
2847
2848* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2849 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2850 make state changes.
2851
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2852Security related changes:
2853
fc82b0a2 2854* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2855 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2856 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2857 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2858 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2859
fc82b0a2
FW
2860* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2861 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2862 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2863 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2864 (CVE-2015-5180)
2865
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2866The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2867
fdb724f9 2868 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
2869 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2870 protector-all
2871 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2872 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2873 before it started waiting
2874 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2875 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2876 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2877 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2878 wrong type
2879 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2880 library linked with pthread
2881 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2882 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2883 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2884 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2885 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2886 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2887 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2888 when it shouldnt
2889 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2890 not
2891 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2892 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2893 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2894 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2895 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2896 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2897 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2898 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2899 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2900 termination
2901 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2902 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2903 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2904 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2905 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2906 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2907 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2908 causes a segmentation fault
2909 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2910 linking
2911 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2912 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2913 uninitialized GOT
2914 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2915 versions
2916 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2917 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2918 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2919 is always true.
2920 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2921 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2922 modes
2923 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2924 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2925 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2926 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2927 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2928 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2929 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2930 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2931 libpthread.a
2932 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2933 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2934 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2935 _res_hconf
2936 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2937 information.
2938 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2939 penalty
2940 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2941 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2942 cause transition penalty
2943 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2944 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2945 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2946 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2947 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2948 mcount.oS)
2949 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2950 Checking
2951 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2952 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2953 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2954 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2955 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2956 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2957 multi-arch
2958 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2959 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2960 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2961 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2962 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2963 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2964 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2965 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2966 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2967 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2968 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2969 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2970 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2971 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2972 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2973 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2974 glibc
2975 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2976 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2977 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2978 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2979 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2980 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2981 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2982 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2983 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2984 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2985 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2986 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2987 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2988 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2989 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2990 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2991 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2992 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2993 RES_USE_INET6
2994 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2995 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2996 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2997 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2998 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2999 wrong condition
3000 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3001 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3002 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3003 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3004 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3005 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3006 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3007 clang
3008 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3009 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3010 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3011 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3012 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3013\f
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3014Version 2.24
3015
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3016* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3017 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3018 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3019 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3020 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3021 architectures.
3022
b6ebba70
MF
3023* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3024 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3025 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3026
7584a3f9
FW
3027* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3028 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3029
b49ab5f4
FW
3030* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3031 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3032 instead of “union wait”.
3033
ced8f893
SG
3034* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3035 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3036 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3037 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3038 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3039 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3040 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3041
2ba3cfa1
FW
3042* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3043 API.
3044
b7a9b7b0
MF
3045* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3046 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3047 drop it.
6a54bcda 3048
41a359e2
RS
3049* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3050 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3051 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3052 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3053 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3054 extensions.
3055
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3056Security related changes:
3057
f5b3338d
FW
3058* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3059 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3060 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3061
4ab2ab03
FW
3062* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3063 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3064 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3065 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3066
5171f307
FW
3067* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3068 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3069 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3070
bc779a1a
FW
3071* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3072 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3073 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3074
fab38231
FW
3075* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3076 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3077 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3078 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3079
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AZ
3080The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3081
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CD
3082 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3083 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3084 of MS-DOS.
3085 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3086 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3087 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3088 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3089 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3090 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3091 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3092 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3093 CLDR data
3094 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3095 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3096 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3097 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3098 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3099 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3100 romanisation
3101 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3102 and +/-
3103 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3104 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3105 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3106 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3107 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3108 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3109 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3110 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3111 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3112 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3113 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3114 all locales
3115 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3116 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3117 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3118 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3119 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3120 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3121 execute
3122 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3123 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3124 -Wsystem-headers
3125 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3126 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3127 Romanian locale data
3128 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3129 symbol
3130 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3131 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3132 language
3133 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3134 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3135 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3136 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3137 machine
3138 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3139 description
3140 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3141 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3142 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3143 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3144 when using RTLD_NEXT
3145 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3146 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3147 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3148 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3149 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3150 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3151 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3152 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3153 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3154 Excavator core
3155 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3156 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3157 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3158 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3159 double range
3160 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3161 part zero incorrect
3162 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3163 equality tests
3164 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3165 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3166 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3167 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3168 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3169 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3170 glibc-2.22
3171 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3172 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3173 'tst-numeric.c'
3174 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3175 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3176 low part
3177 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3178 result
3179 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3180 unaligned stack
3181 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3182 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3183 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3184 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3185 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3186 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3187 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3188 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3189 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3190 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3191 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3192 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3193 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3194 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3195 modes
3196 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3197 server addresses
3198 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3199 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3200 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3201 response to getaddrinfo
3202 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3203 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3204 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3205 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3206 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3207 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3208 sometimes incorrect
3209 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3210 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3211 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3212 record types
3213 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3214 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3215 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3216 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3217 (CVE-2016-3075)
3218 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3219 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3220 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3221 resolving symbols
3222 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3223 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3224 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3225 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3226 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3227 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3228 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3229 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3230 gethosts
3231 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3232 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3233 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3234 (CVE-2016-3706)
3235 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3236 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3237 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3238 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3239 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3240 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3241 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3242 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3243 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3244 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3245 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3246 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3247 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3248 executable
3249 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3250 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3251 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3252 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3253 XPG3
3254 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3255 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3256 (CVE-2016-4429)
3257 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3258 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3259 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3260 AS not supporting AVX512
3261 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3262 sNaN argument
3263 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3264 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3265 argument
3266 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3267 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3268 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3269 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3270 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3271 eax=0x80000001
3272 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3273 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3274 subnormals
3275 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3276 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3277 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3278 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3279 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3280 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3281 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3282 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3283 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3284 input
3285 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3286 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3287 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3288 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3289 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3290 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3291 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3292 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3293 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3294 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3295 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3296 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3297 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3298 double rounding
3299 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3300 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3301 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3302 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3303 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3304 (Only arm/linux)
3305 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3306 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3307 fallbacks
3308 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3309 "invalid" exceptions
3310 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3311 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3312 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3313 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3314 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3315 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3316 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3317 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3318 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3319\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3320Version 2.23
3321
23256f5e
MF
3322* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3323 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3324 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3325 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3326 89, 16061, and 18568.
3327
2359035a
FW
3328* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3329 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3330 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3331 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3332 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3333 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3334 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3335
8b7b7f75
MW
3336* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3337 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3338 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3339
2eecc8af
FW
3340* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3341 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3342 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3343 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3344 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3345 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3346 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3347
a62719ba
FW
3348* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3349 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3350 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3351 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3352 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3353 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3354 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3355 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3356
bc148ca1
MF
3357* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3358 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3359 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3360 independent of the GNU C Library.
3361
1c70b6f1
ZW
3362* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3363 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3364
eed3e1eb
JM
3365* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3366 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3367 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3368 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3369 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3370 Linux kernel.
3371
1efad39b
SL
3372* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3373 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3374
d709042a
JM
3375* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3376 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3377 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3378 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3379 defining their own copy.
3380
b08b4218
JM
3381* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3382 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3383 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3384
8f5e8b01
JM
3385Security related changes:
3386
6400ae6e
FW
3387* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3388 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3389
3390* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3391 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3392 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3393 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3394 (CVE-2015-8777)
3395
3396* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3397 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3398
3399* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3400 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3401
8f5e8b01
JM
3402* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3403 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3404 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3405
e9db92d3
CD
3406* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3407 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3408 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3409 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3410 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3411 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3412 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3413 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3414 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3415 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3416 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3417 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3418 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3419
ad372e29 3420The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3421
ad372e29
AZ
3422 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3423 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3424 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3425 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3426 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3427 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3428 use `mkstemp'
3429 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3430 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3431 overflow/underflow errors
3432 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3433 overflow/underflow
3434 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3435 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3436 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3437 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3438 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3439 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3440 are not contiguous
3441 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3442 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3443 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3444 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3445 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3446 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3447 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3448 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3449 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3450 all exceptions
3451 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3452 arguments
3453 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3454 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3455 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3456 should include
3457 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3458 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3459 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3460 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3461 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3462 GNU/Linux
3463 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3464 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3465 arguments
3466 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3467 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3468 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3469 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3470 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3471 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3472 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3473 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3474 rounding results
3475 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3476 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3477 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3478 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3479 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3480 fails
3481 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3482 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3483 block boundary
3484 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3485 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3486 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3487 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3488 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3489 4.7?
3490 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3491 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3492 (related to lock elision)
3493 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3494 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3495 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3496 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3497 (CVE-2015-8779)
3498 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3499 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3500 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3501 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3502 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3503 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3504 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3505 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3506 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3507 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3508 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3509 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3510 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3511 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3512 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3513 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3514 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3515 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3516 contains a vector instruction exception.
3517 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3518 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3519 locales
3520 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3521 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3522 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3523 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3524 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3525 missing break ?
3526 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3527 32bit processes
3528 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3529 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3530 infinity
3531 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3532 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3533 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3534 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3535 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3536 be forced unloaded
3537 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3538 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3539 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3540 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3541 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3542 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3543 statically too large
3544 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3545 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3546 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3547 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3548 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3549 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3550 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3551 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3552 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3553 FUTEX_SHARED
3554 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3555 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3556 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3557 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3558 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3559 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3560 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3561 opendir()
3562 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3563 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3564 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3565 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3566 signgam
3567 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3568 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3569 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3570 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3571 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3572 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3573 dependencies
3574 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3575 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3576 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3577 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3578 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3579 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3580 (CVE-2015-8776)
3581 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3582 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3583 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3584 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3585 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3586 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3587 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3588 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3589 contention
3590 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3591 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3592 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3593 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3594 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3595 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3596 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3597 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3598 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3599 rounding modes
3600 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3601 ILP32
3602 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3603 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3604 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3605 threshold
3606 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3607 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3608 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3609 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3610 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3611 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3612 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3613 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3614 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3615 pthread_setaffinity_np
3616 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3617 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3618 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3619 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3620 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3621 prelink
3622 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3623 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3624 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3625 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3626 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3627 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3628 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3629 bits/mathcalls.h
3630 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3631 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3632 for C99-based standards
3633 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3634 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3635 math-only
3636 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3637 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3638 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3639 disabled
3640 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3641 "inexact" exceptions
3642 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3643 arguments
3644 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3645 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3646 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3647 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3648 rules
3649 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3650 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3651 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3652 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3653 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3654 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3655 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3656 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3657 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3658 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3659 from 32bit
3660 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3661 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3662 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3663 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3664 subnormals
3665 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3666 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3667 error on 32-bit architectures
3668 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3669 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3670 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3671 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3672 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3673 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3674 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3675 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3676 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3677 -Os
3678 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3679 CPU's.
3680 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3681 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3682 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3683 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3684 architectures
3685 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3686\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3687Version 2.22
3688
3689* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3690
3df5cd98 3691 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3692 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3693 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3694 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3695 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3696 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3697 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3698 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3699 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3700 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3701 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3702 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3703 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3704 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3705 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3706 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3707 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3708 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3709 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3710 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3711
f7fba805
SL
3712* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3713 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3714
2959eda9
AS
3715* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3716 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3717 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3718 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3719 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3720 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3721
42261ad7
FW
3722* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3723 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3724 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3725 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3726 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3727
afcd9480
AM
3728* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3729 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3730 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3731
4a4839c9
AO
3732* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3733 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3734 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3735 17998.
3736
b13b96ca
AS
3737* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3738 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3739 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3740
3741* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3742 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3743 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3744 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3745 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3746 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3747 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3748 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3749
3750* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3751 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3752 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3753 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3754
3755* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3756 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3757 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3758
3759* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3760 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3761
3762* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3763 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3764 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3765
a03ba363 3766 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3767 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3768 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3769\f
58b930ae
SP
3770Version 2.21
3771
3772* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3773
042e1521 3774 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3775 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3776 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3777 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3778 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3779 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3780 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3781 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3782 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3783 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3784 17892.
3785
46d54873
FW
3786* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3787 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3788 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3789 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3790 intended.
042e1521
CD
3791
3792* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3793 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3794 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3795 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3796 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3797 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3798
522e6ee3
CLT
3799* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3800
d3b00f46
AZ
3801* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3802 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3803 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3804
8d2c0a59
AZ
3805* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3806 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3807 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3808 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3809 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3810 effects being visible outside transactions.
3811
dc400d7b
RE
3812* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3813 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3814
0f9dfe04
L
3815* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3816
a39208bd
CD
3817* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3818 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3819 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3820 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3821 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3822
a5357b7c
JL
3823* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3824 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3825
e54db0ea
AM
3826* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3827 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3828 format.
11e3417a 3829
4863355a
JM
3830* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3831 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3832 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3833
a4ecc9eb
JM
3834* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3835 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3836
0d560bbf 3837* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3838
3839* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3840 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3841 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3842 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3843
3844* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3845 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3846
3847* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3848 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3849 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3850 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3851 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3852 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3853 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3854 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3855 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3856 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3857 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3858 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3859 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3860
3861 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3862 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3863 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3864 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3865 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3866\f
d5b396c1
AM
3867Version 2.20
3868
3869* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3870
6a9350c8
JM
3871 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3872 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3873 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3874 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3875 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3876 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3877 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3878 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3879 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3880 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3881 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3882 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3883 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3884 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3885 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3886
95ee7fb1
SL
3887* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3888 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3889 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3890 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3891 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3892 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3893 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3894 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3895 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3896 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3897
0961f7e1
JL
3898* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3899 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3900 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3901 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3902 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3903
f940b965
RE
3904* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3905
d0f5b3f8
JM
3906* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3907 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3908
d6fe5e58
JM
3909* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3910 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3911 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3912 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3913 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3914 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3915
464263cc
JM
3916* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3917 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3918
3919* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3920 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3921 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3922 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3923 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3924 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3925 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3926
3927* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3928
3929* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3930 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3931 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3932 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3933 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3934 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3935 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3936
3937* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3938 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3939 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3940 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3941 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3942
3943* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3944 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3945 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3946
3947* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3948 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3949 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3950 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3951
3952* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3953 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3954 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3955 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3956 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3957 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3958 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3959 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3960
3961* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3962 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3963 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3964 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3965 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3966 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3967 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3968 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3969 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3970
3971* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3972 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3973 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3974 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3975 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3976 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3977
3978* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3979 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3980 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3981 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3982\f
3983Version 2.19
3984
3985* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3986
fd2f9486
JM
3987 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3988 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3989 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3990 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3991 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3992 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3993 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3994 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3995 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3996 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3997 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3998 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3999 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4000 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4001 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4002 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4003 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4004 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4005
11520a57
CD
4006* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4007 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4008
2fe16229
CD
4009* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4010 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4011 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4012 extension which uses __block.
4013
303e567a
SP
4014* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4015 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4016 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4017 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4018 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4019
141f3a77
SP
4020* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4021 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4022 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4023 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4024 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4025
4026* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4027 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4028 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4029 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4030 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4031
4032* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4033 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4034 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4035
ba0d798c
WN
4036* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4037 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4038 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4039 #15856, #15857).
4040
7cbcdb36
SP
4041* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4042 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4043
82bab04b 4044* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4045 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4046
c5f840fd
MB
4047* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4048
3e181dda
CD
4049* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4050 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4051
3e181dda 4052* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4053
8a05c252
CL
4054* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4055
6055173a
JM
4056* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4057 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4058 for which the C library was built.
4059
b125d3e5
JM
4060* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4061 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4062 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4063 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4064 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4065 in the following circumstances:
4066
4067 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4068
4069 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4070 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4071
d4f66d37
JM
4072* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4073 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4074
3e181dda
CD
4075* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4076 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4077
ffb89e53
AO
4078* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4079
5d29ccce
SP
4080* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4081 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4082
8b7d57cd 4083* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4084
4085* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4086
fd712ef3 4087* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4088
c688b419
JM
4089* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4090 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4091 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4092 disable some of those declarations.
4093
7011c262 4094* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4095 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4096 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4097
4098* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4099 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4100
4101* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4102 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4103 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4104 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4105 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4106 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4107 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4108 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4109 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4110 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4111 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4112 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4113 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4114\f
4115Version 2.18
4116
4117* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4118
17db6e8d 4119 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4120 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4121 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4122 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4123 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4124 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4125 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4126 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4127 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4128 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4129 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4130 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4131 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4132 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4133
4134* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4135 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4136 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4137 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4138 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4139 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4140
5b535ac4
AS
4141* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4142 #15078).
4143
1cef1b19
AS
4144* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4145 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4146
55e4107b
SP
4147* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4148 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4149 destructor calls to glibc.
4150
e5c74c63
SP
4151* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4152 output.
4153
4154* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4155 non-x86 architectures.
4156
e7521973
JM
4157* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4158
4159* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4160
4161* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4162 Richard Henderson.
4163
4164* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4165
4166* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4167 Richard Henderson.
4168
4169* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4170 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4171
8cfdb7e0
SP
4172* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4173
57267616
TS
4174* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4175 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4176
c204ab28
SP
4177* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4178 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4179
0748546f
PE
4180* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4181 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4182 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4183
61dd6208
SP
4184* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4185 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4186 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4187
4188* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4189 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4190 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4191 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4192 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4193
4194* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4195 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4196
4197* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4198\f
4199Version 2.17
4200
4201* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4202
80ceeaee 4203 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4204 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4205 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4206 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4207 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4208 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4209 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4210 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4211 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4212 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4213 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4214 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4215 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4216 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4217 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4218
95b4f1b6
SE
4219* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4220
14bc93a9
JL
4221* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4222 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4223
b54eb3cb
JM
4224* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4225 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4226
7e2bd01f
MS
4227* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4228
08f43f9b
AK
4229* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4230 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4231 zEnterprise z196.
4232 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4233
84b3fd84
FW
4234* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4235 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4236 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4237
815e6fa3
GB
4238* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4239 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4240
400726de
MK
4241* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4242 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4243
7aab07e4 4244* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4245 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4246
15d0da8c
WS
4247* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4248 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4249
3cc3ef96
RM
4250* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4251 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4252 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4253 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4254
b54eb3cb
JM
4255* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4256 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4257
85429b1a 4258* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4259 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4260 default.
4261
b54eb3cb
JM
4262* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4263 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4264 information in --help and --version output.
4265
050af9c4
SP
4266* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4267 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4268 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4269
89a3ad0b
AO
4270* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4271 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4272 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4273 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4274 when the mode is enabled.
4275
6e6249d0
RM
4276* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4277 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4278 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4279 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4280 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4281 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4282 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4283
d9286582
NK
4284* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4285 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
4286\f
4287Version 2.16
4288
4289* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4290
a8133e19
JM
4291 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4292 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4293 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4294 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4295 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4296 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4297 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4298 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4299 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4300 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4301 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4302 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4303 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4304 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4305 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4306 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4307 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4308 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4309 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4310 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4311 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4312 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4313 14277, 14278.
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4315* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4316 configuring glibc with:
4317 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4318 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4319 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4320
380d7e87
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4321* ISO C11 support:
4322
4323 + define static_assert
4324
4325 + do not declare gets
4326
4327 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4328
4329 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4330 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4331 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4332 implementation.
8d44e150 4333
74033a25 4334 + timespec_get added
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4335
4336 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4337
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4338 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4339
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4340 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4341
9dc4e1fb 4342* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4343
4344* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4345
4346* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4347 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4348
4349* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4351
4352* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4353 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4354 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4355 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4356 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4357
21708942 4358* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4359 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4360 before 2.6.
83678f76 4361
edb00e4d
RH
4362* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4363 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4364 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4365
83678f76 4366* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4367
4368* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4369 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4370 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4371 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4372 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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4373
4374* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4375
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4376* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4377 and Will Schmidt.
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4378
4379* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4380
4381* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4382 without a previously built glibc.
4383
4384* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4385 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4386
4387* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4388 now supported for ARM processors.
4389
4390* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4391 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4392 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4393
4394* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4395
4396* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4397 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4398 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4399 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4400
4401* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4402 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4403 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4404 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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CD
4405
4406* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4407 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4408 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4409 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4410 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4411
4412* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4413 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4414 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4415 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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11988f8f 4418
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4419* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4420
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4421 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4422 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4423 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4424 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4425 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4426 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4427 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4428
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4429* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4430 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4431
4432* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4433 and support for initgroups lookups.
4434 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4435
4436* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4437 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4438
4439* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4440 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4441
fc2ee42a
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4442* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4443 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4444 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4445
d42964a0 4446* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4447 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4448
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4449* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4450 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4451 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4452
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4453* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4454 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4455
4456* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4458
4459* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4461
4462* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4463 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4464
4465* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4466 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4467
4468* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4470
4471* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4472
4473* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4474 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4475
f0b264f1
AZ
4476* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4477 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4478
6b64057b 4479* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4482
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4483* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4484
553149f6 4485 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4486 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4487 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4488 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4489 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4490 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4491 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4492 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4493 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4494 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4495
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4496* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4497 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4498 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4499 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4500
4501 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4502 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4503 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4504 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4505
c6489db3 4506* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4507 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4508
72d1dddb 4509* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4510 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4511
4512* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4513
4514* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4516
4517* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4518 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4519 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4520 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4522Version 2.13
4523
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4524* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4525
c30b7ee2
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4526 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4527 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4528 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4529 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4530 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4531
10b3bedc 4532* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4533
ac2b484c 4534* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4535
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4536* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4537 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4538 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4540Version 2.12
4541
d36b9613
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4542* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4543
2e0fb521
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4544 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4545 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4546 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4547 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4548 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4549 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4550 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4551 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4552
4553* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4554
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4555* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4556
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4557* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4558
4559* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4560 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4561 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562
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4563* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4564 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4565 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4566 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4567 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4568
d36b9613 4569* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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4570\f
4571Version 2.11
4572
d36b9613
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4573* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4574
4575 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4576 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4577 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4578 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4579 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4580 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4581
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4582* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4583 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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4584 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4585
24ab9c76 4586* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4587 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4588
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4589* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4590 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4591
51a71cf0
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4592* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4593
0122f28e 4594* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4595 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4596 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4597 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4598
9d36a6c4 4599 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4600 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4601
9d36a6c4
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4602* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4603 strstr, strcasestr.
4604 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4605
4606* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4607 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4608
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4609* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4610 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4611
4612* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4613 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4614
4615* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4616 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4617 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4618 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4619 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4620 necessity is every process again.
4621 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4622
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4623* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4624 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4625
4626* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4627 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4628
4bc1b896
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4629* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4630 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4632
9dd5b8a1 4633* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4634\f
4635Version 2.10
4636
d36b9613
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4637* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4638
4639 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4640 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4641 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4642 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4643 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4644
bb066545 4645* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4647
425ce2ed 4648* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4649 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4650
1fdd89a7 4651* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4652 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4653
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4654* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4655 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4656
1f04d005 4657* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4659
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4660* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4662
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4663* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4664 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4665
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4666* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4667 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4668
4669* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4670 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4672
735be400 4673* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4674
84aa52d7 4675* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4676 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4677
4678* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4679 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4680 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4681
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4682* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4683 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4684
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4685* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4686 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4687 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4688 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4689 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4692Version 2.9
4693
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4694* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4695
4696 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4697 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4698 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4699 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4700 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4701
b29899ae 4702* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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4703 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4704
4705* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4706 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4707
4708* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4710
4711* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4712 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4713 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4714
4715* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4716 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 4717
8ec2550e 4718* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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4719
4720* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4721 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 4722
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4723* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4724 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4725 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4727
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4728* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4729 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4732 Sinhala)
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4735* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4738
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4740
4741 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4742 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4743 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4744 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4745 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4746 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4747 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4748
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77751669 4751* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4753* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4754 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4755
4756* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4757
4758* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4759 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4760
4761* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4763
4764* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4765 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4766 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4767
4768* Faster memset for x86-64.
4769 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4770
4771* Faster memcpy on x86.
4772 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4773
4774* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4775 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4777* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4778 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4780Version 2.7
4781
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4782* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4783
4784 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4785 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4786 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4787 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4788 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4789
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4790* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4791 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4792
4793* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4794
4795* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4796 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4797 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4798
4799* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4800 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4801
28919a77 4802* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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4803 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4804
4805* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4806
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4807* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4808 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4809
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4810* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4811 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4812
4813* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4814 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4815
4816* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4817
4818* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4819 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4821* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4822 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4823 yo_NG.
4824
4825+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4831
4832 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4833 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4834 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4835 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4836 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4837 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4838 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4839 4702, 4858
4840
bce20b9a 4841* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4844
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4848
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4849* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4850
4851 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4852 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4853 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4854 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4855 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4856 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4857 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4858 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4859 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4860
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4862 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4865* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4867
871b9158 4868* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4869
4870* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4872* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4873 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4874 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4875 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4876 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4877
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4879 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4880 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4882
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4884 Ulrich Drepper.
4885
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4886* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4887
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4888* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4889 Ulrich Drepper.
4890
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4891* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4892
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4893* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4894 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4896Version 2.4
4897
4898* More overflow detection functions.
4899
4900* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4901 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4903 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4904 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4905 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4906 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4907 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4908 by Masahide Washizawa.
4909
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4910* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4911 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4912
4913* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4914 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4915 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4916 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4918* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4919 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4920
4921* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4922
4923* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4924 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4925 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4926
4927* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4928 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4929
4930* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4931 for compatibility with some other systems.
4932
4933* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4935Version 2.3.6
4936
4937* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4938
4939 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4940 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4941 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4942 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4943 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4944 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4945
5a82c748 4946 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4948* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4949
4950* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4952Version 2.3.5
4953
4954* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4955
4956 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4957 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4958 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4959 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4960
5a82c748 4961 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4963Version 2.3.4
4964
4965* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4966 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4967
4968* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4969 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4971
4972* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4973 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4974
0325dd20 4975* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4976 efficiently.
4977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4978
4979* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4980 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4981 handling data.
4982
4983* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4984 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4985 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4986
4987* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4988 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4989
4990* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4991 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4992 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4993 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4994
4995* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4996 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4997 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4998 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4999
5000* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5001 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5002 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5003 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5004 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5006Version 2.3.3
5007
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5008* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5009 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5010
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5011* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5012 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5015 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5016
5017* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5018 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5019
5020* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5021 by Roland McGrath.
5022
c5af724c 5023* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5024 and Ulrich Drepper.
5025
5026* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5027 RFC 3484.
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5029Version 2.3.2
5030
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5031* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5032 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5033 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5034 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5035 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5036 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5037 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5038 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5039 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5040
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5041* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5042 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5043 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5044
5045* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5046
5047* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5048 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5050* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5051 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5052
52a16e58 5053* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5055* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5056 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5057
5058* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5059 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5060 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5061 of weak definition in ld.so.
5062
5063* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5064 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5065
5066* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5067 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5071* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5072 charsets.
5073
5074* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5075 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 5076
bb0ec5bd 5077* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5078 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5080* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5081 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5082
bb0ec5bd 5083* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5084 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5085 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5087* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5088 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5089
bb0ec5bd 5090* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5091 implementation of regex.
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5093* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5094 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 5095
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5096* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5097 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5099* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5100 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5101 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5102
5103* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5105
5106* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5107 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5108 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5110* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5111 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5113* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5114 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5115 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5117* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5120
5121* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5122 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5123
5124* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5125 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5127Version 2.2.5
5128
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5129* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5130 128-bit long double format.
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5132* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5133 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5134
ad2e4f18 5135* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5137* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5138
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5139* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5140 as well.
5141
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5142* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5143 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5144
5145* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5147Version 2.2.4
5148
2995f70e 5149* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5150 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5151
5152* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5153 support Unicode 3.1.
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5155* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5156 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5157
69d5f925 5158* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5159
69d5f925 5160* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5162 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5163
5164* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5165 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5166
5167* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5168 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5170* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5172Version 2.2.3
5173
1746f2b0 5174* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5175 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5176 in float, double, and long double format.
5177
f128331c 5178* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5180 128-bit long double format.
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5182* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5183 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5184 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5185 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5186
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5187* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5188 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5189 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5190
5191* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5192 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5193
5194* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5195 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5196
5197* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5198 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5199 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5200
5201* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5202 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5203
5204* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5205 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5206
5207* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5209Version 2.2.2
5210
464d97ec 5211* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5212 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5213 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5214 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5215 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5216 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5217 other headers.
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5218
5219* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5220 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5221
5222* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5223 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5224 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5225 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5226
5227* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5228 locales. While
5229
5230 locale -a
5231
5232 only lists the names of the supported locales
5233
5234 locale -a --verbose
5235
5236 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5237 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5239Version 2.2.1
5240
5241* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5242 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5243 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5244 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5245 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5246
5247 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5248
5249 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5250
5251 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5252
5253* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5254 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5255 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5256
5257* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5258 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5259
5260* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5261 changed from the default "C" locale.
5262
5263* The usual bug fixes.
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5265Version 2.2
5266
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5267* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5268 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5269 is in progress.
5270
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5271* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5272
793bd4d9 5273* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5275 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5276 obviously requires a database library being available.
5277
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5278* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5279
abbffdf9 5280* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5281
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5282* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5283 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5284
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5285* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5286
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5287* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5288 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5289 and Mark Kettenis.
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5290
5291 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5292 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5293 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5294
a00c3ca9 5295 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5296 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5297
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5298* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5299 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5300 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5301
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5302* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5303 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5304 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5306
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5307 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5308 structures for the wide character tables.
5309
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5310* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5311
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5312* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5313
5314* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5315
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5316* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5317 and Yutaka Niibe.
5318
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5319* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5320
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5321* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5322
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5323* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5324
5325* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5326
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5327* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5328
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5329* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5330 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5331 implemented for Linux.
5332
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5333* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5334 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5335 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5336 versions.
5337
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5338* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5339 Masahide Washizawa.
5340
8f3f1e09 5341* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5342\f
5343Version 2.1.3
5344
5345* bug fixes
5346
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5348Version 2.1.2
5349
5350* bug fixes
5351
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5353Version 2.1.1
5354
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5355* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5356
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5357* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5358
407d26b7 5359* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5360
5361* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5362
407d26b7 5363* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5364
407d26b7 5365* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5366
5367* Update timezone data files.
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5369* lots of charmaps corrections
5370
5371* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5372
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5374Version 2.1
5375
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5376* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5377 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5378 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5379 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5380 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5381 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5382
c84142e8 5383* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5384 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5385
1fb05e3d 5386* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5387 symbol level.
5388
5389* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5390 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5391
cbdee279 5392* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5393
5394* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5395 numbers.
377a515b 5396
cbdee279 5397* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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5399* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5400 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5401
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5402* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5403 library.
5404
e61abf83 5405* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5406 functions from ISO C 9X.
5407
5408* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5409 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5410
a5a0310d 5411* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5413* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5414
5415* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5416
440d13e2 5417* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5419* Optimized string functions have been added.
5420
5421* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5423* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5426 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5427
5428 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5429 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5430
0dee6738 5431 user system wall
48244d09 5432
0dee6738 5433 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5434
0dee6738 5435 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5436
0dee6738 5437 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5439 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5440
5441 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5442
5443 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5445 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5446 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5447 horribly slow.
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5449 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5450 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5452* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5453
5454* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5455
5456* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5457 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5458
5459* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5461* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5462 Bambrough.
5463
5464* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5465 latest draft standards.
5466
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5467* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5468
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5469* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5470~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5473argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5474argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5475argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5476argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5477argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5478argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5479argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5480argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5481argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5482argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5483authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5484authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5485authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5486backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5487backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5488backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5489cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5490cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5491cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5492cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5493cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5494cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5495capget NEW: kernel
5496capset NEW: kernel
5497carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5498cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5499cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5500casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5501casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5502casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5503casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5504casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5505casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5506catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5507catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5508catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5509catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5510catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5511catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5514ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5515ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5516ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5517ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5518ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5519cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5520cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5521cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5522cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5523cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5524cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5525clearerr_locked REMOVED
5526clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5527clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5528clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5529clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5530clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5531clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5532clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5533conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5534conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5535conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5536cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5537cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5538cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5539cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5540cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5541cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5542creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5543crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5544creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5545creat64 NEW: LFS
5546csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5547csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5548csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5549csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5550csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5551csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5552csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5553csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5554csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5555ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5556ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5557ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5558ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5559ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5560ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5561des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5562ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5563endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5564exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5565exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5566exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5567exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5568exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5569exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5570fattach NEW: STREAMS
5571fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5572fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5573fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5574fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5575feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5576fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5577fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5578fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5579feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5580feof_locked REMOVED
5581feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5582ferror_locked REMOVED
5583fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5584fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5585fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5586fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5587feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5588fflush_locked REMOVED
5589ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5590ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5591fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5592fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5593fileno_locked REMOVED
5594fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5595fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5596fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5597fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5598fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5599fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5600fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5601fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5602fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5603fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5604fopen64 NEW: LFS
5605fputc_locked REMOVED
5606fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5607fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5608freopen64 NEW: LFS
5609fseeko NEW: Unix98
5610fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5611fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5612fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5613fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5614ftello NEW: Unix98
5615ftello64 NEW: LFS
5616ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5617ftw64 NEW: LFS
5618fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5619gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5620gamma_r REMOVED
5621gammaf_r REMOVED
5622gammal_r REMOVED
5623getchar_locked REMOVED
5624getdate NEW: Unix98
5625getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5626getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5627getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5628getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5631getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5632getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5633getutxent NEW: Unix98
5634getutxid NEW: Unix98
5635getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5636glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5637globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5638gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5639gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5640grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5641host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5642iconv NEW: iconv
5643iconv_close NEW: iconv
5644iconv_open NEW: iconv
5645if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5646if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5647if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5648if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5649in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5650in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5651inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5652isastream NEW: STREAMS
5653iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5654key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5655key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5656key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5657key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5658key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5659key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5660key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5661key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5662key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5663llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5664llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5665llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5666llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5667llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5668llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5669log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5670log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5671log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5672lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5673lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5674lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5675lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5676lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5677lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5678lseek64 NEW: LFS
5679makecontext NEW: Unix98
5680mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5681mmap64 NEW: LFS
5682moncontrol REMOVED
5683modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5684nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5685nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5686nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5687nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5688nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5689nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5690netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5691netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5692nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5693nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5694nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5695nftw NEW: Unix98
5696nftw64 NEW: LFS
5697open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5698passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5699pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5700pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5701pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5702pread NEW: Unix98
5703pread64 NEW: LFS
5704printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5705printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5706profil_counter REMOVED
5707pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5708pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5709ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5710ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5711putc_locked REMOVED
5712putchar_locked REMOVED
5713putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5714putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5715putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
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5717pwrite NEW: Unix98
5718pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5719readdir64 NEW: LFS
5720readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5721remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5722remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5723remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5724round NEW: ISO C 9x
5725roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5726roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5727rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5728scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5729scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5730scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5731scandir64 NEW: LFS
5732sendfile NEW: kernel
5733setcontext NEW: Unix98
5734setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5735setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5737sigignore NEW: Unix98
5738sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5739sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5740sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5741sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5742sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5743sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5744sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5745sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5746statfs64 NEW: LFS
5747statvfs NEW: Unix98
5748statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5749strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5750strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5751strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5752strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5753svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5754svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5755svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5756swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5757tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5758tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5759tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5760tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5761tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5762tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5763trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5764truncate64 NEW: LFS
5765truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5766truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5767umount2 NEW: kernel
5768unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5769updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5770user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5771utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5772versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5773versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5774waitid NEW: Unix98
5775wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5776wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5777wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5778wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5779wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5780wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5781wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5782wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5783wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5784wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5785write_profiling REMOVED
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5786xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5787xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5788xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5789xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5790xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5791xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5792xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5793xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5794xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5795xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5796xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5797xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5798xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5799xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5800xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5801~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5803Version 2.0.6
5804
5805* more bug fixes
5806
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5808Version 2.0.5
5809
5810* more bug fixes
5811
5812* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5813
5814* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5815
5816* rewrite of cbrt function
5817
5818* update of timezone data
5819\f
5820Version 2.0.4
5821
5822* more bug fixes
5823\f
5824Version 2.0.3
5825
5826* more bug fixes
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5828Version 2.0.2
5829
5830* more bug fixes
5831
5832* add atoll function
5833
5834* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5835
5836* fix math functions
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5838Version 2.0.1
5839
5840* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5841
5842* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5843
5844* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5845 the ELF dynamic loader.
5846
5847* support for parallel builds is improved
5848\f
40a4b79f 5849Version 2.0
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5851* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5852 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5853 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5854
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5855* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5856 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5857 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5858 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5859 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5860 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5861 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5862 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5863 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5864 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5865 files in the ELF format.
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5866
5867* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5868 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5869
5870* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5871 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5872 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5873 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5874 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5875 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5876 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5877 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5878 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5879 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5880 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5882* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5883 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5884 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5885 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5886 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5887
f7eac6eb 5888* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5889 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5890 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5891 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5892 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5893
5894* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5896* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5897 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5898 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5899 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5900 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5901 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5902 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5903 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5904 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5905
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5906* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5907 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5908 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5909
5910* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5911 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5912 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5913
5914* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5915 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5916 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5917 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5918
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5919* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5920 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5921 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5922
5923* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5924 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5925 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5926
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5927* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5928 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5929
f7eac6eb 5930* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5931 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5932 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5933 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5934
5935* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5936 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5937 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5938
71733723 5939* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5940 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5941 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5942 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5943 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5944 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5945 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5946 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5947
5948* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5949 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5950 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5951 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5952 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5953 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5954 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5955
5956* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5957 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5958 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5959 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5960 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5961 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5962
5963* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5964 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5965
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5966* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5967 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5968 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5970* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5971
5972* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5973 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5974 their use is discouraged.
5975
5976* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5977 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5979* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5980 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5981
5982* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5983 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5984
5985* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5986 see <dirent.h>.
5987
5988* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5989 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5990 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5991 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5992 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5993
5994* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5995 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5996 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5997 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5998
5999* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6000 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6001
6002* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6003 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6004 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6005 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6006 number generator.
6007
6008* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6009 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6010
6011* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6012 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6013
71733723 6014* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6015 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6016 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6017 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6018
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6019* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6020
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6021* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6022 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6023 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6024
6025* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6026 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 6027
c709e372 6028* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6029 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6030 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6031 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6032
6033* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6034 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6035 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6036 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6037 programs already written to use it.)
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6038
6039* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6040 constants.
6041
6042* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6043 with 4.4 BSD.
6044
6045* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6046 a given effective group ID.
6047
6048* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6049 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6050 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6051 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6052
6053* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6054 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6055 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6056 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6057 doing the same thing.
6058
6059* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6060 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6061
6062* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6063 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6064
6065* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6066
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6067* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6068 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6069 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6070 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6071 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6072
6073* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6074 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6075
6076* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6077 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6078 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6079 function.
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6080
6081* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6082
6083* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6084 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6085 strings.
6086
6087* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6088 and writing the utmp file.
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6089
6090* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6091 Thorsten Kukuk.
6092
6093* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6094 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6095 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6096
6097* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6098 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6099
6100* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6101 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6102 specification.
6103
6104* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6105 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6106 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6107 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6108
6109* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6110 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6111 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6112
6113* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6114 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6115 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6116 expression matcher.
6117
6118* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6119 functionality.
6120
6121* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6122 by Ulrich Drepper.
6123
6124* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6125
6126* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6127 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6128 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6130Version 1.09
6131
6132* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6133
6134* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6135 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6136
6137* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6138 want to put themselves in the background.
6139
6140* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6141 run without an operating system.
6142
6143* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6144 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6145
6146* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6147 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6148
6149* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6150
6151* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6152 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6153 have YP (aka NIS).
6154
6155* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6156 conventions.
6157
6158* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6159 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6160\f
6161Version 1.08
6162
6163* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6164 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6165 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6166
6167* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6168 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6169
6170* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6171 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6172
6173* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6174
6175* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6176
6177* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6178 compatibility.
6179
6180* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6181 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6182 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6183
6184* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6185
6186* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6187 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6188 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6189
6190* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6191 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6192 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6193 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6194 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6195 on a block).
6196
6197* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6198 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6199 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6200 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6201 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6202 cross-compiler.
6203
6204* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6205 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6206\f
6207Version 1.07
6208
6209* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6210 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6211
6212* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6213 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6214 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6215
6216* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6217 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6218 address of the last character written.
6219
6220* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6221 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6222
6223* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6224 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6225
6226* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6227 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6228 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6229 you dereference this pointer.
6230
6231* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6232 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6233
6234* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6235 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6236 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6237 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6238
6239* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6240 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6241 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6242 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6243\f
6244Version 1.06
6245
6246* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6247 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6248 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6249 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6250 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6251
6252* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6253
6254* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6255
6256* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6257 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6258
6259* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6260 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6261
6262* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6263 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6264
6265* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6266 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6267 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6268 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6269 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6270
6271* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6272 to the error code in `errno'.
6273
6274* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6275 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6276 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6277 malloc'd string.
6278
6279* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6280 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6281 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6282
6283* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6284 uniquely-named temporary file.
6285\f
6286Version 1.05
6287
6288* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6289 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6290 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6291
6292* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6293 characters.
6294
6295* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6296 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6297
6298* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6299\f
6300Version 1.04
6301
6302* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6303 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6304 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6305 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6306
6307* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6308 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6309 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6310
6311* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6312 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6313
6314* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6315 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6316 made itself into a shared library.
6317
6318* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6319 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6320
6321* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6322 with limited length.
6323
6324* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6325
6326* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6327
6328* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6329
6330* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6331 function for traversing a directory tree.
6332
6333* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6334 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6335 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6336 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6337
6338* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6339 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6340
6341* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6342
6343* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6344 things to your strings.
6345
6346* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6347
6348* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6349 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6350 supporting those systems.
6351
6352* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6353 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6354 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6355 configuration files.
6356
6357* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6358 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6359
6360* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6361 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6362 in <strings.h>.)
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6363
6364* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6365 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6366 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6367 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6368 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6369 required storage is not available.
6370
6371* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6372 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6373
6374* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6375 latest files released from Berkeley.
6376\f
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6379
6380 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6381 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6382 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6383 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6384
6385 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6386 of this document, or of portions of it,
6387 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6388 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6389\f
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6391version-control: never
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