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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
6d7e8eda 2Copyright (C) 1992-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.38
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10Major new features:
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12* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf.
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22* PRIb* and PRIB* macros from C2X have been added to <inttypes.h>.
23
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24Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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26* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
27 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
28 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
29 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
30 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
31 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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33* The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
34 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
35 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
36
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37* The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
38 feature is now always enabled.
39
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40Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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42 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
43
44Security related changes:
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46 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
47 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
48 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
49 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
50 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
51 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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53The following bugs are resolved with this release:
54
55 [The release manager will add the list generated by
56 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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58Version 2.37
59
60Major new features:
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62* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
63 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
64 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
65 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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66
67Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
68
90d58fe8 69* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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70 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
71 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
72 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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74Security related changes:
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76 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
77 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
78 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
79 portion of the contents of the heap.
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80
81The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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83 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
84 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
85 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
86 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
87 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
88 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
89 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
90 redirection headers
91 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
92 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
93 first if in a cycle
94 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
95 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
96 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
97 gethostbyname and other functions
98 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
99 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
100 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
101 wrong family
102 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
103 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
104 failed!
105 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
106 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
107 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
108 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
109 segfault on alpha
110 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
111 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
112 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
113 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
114 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
115 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
116 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
117 reuses namespace
118 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
119 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
120 futexes on qemu-user
121 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
122 printed
123 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
124 whitespace
125 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
126 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
127 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
128 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
129 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
130 file support
131 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
132 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
133 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
134 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
135 cache is enabled
136 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
137 BMI2 instructions
138 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
139 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
140 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
141 platforms
142 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
143 optimizations
144 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
145 thousands grouping
146 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
147 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
148 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
149 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
150 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
151 aux.S: No such file or directory)
152 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
153 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
154 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
155 coincides with offset change
156 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
157 length in fortify mode
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159Version 2.36
160
161Major new features:
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163* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
164 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
165 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
166 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
167 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
168 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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170* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
171 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
172 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
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174* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
175 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
176 by the pidfd.
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178* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
179 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
180 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
181 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
182
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183* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
184 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
185 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
186 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
187 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
188 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
189 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
190 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
191 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
192 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
193 validation by applications.
194
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195* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
196 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
197 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
198 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 199 with namespaces.
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201* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
202 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
203 unpredictable output.
204
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205* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
206 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
207 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
208 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
209 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
210 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
211 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
212 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
213
6f4e0fcf 214* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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215 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
216 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 218* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
219 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
220 ABI is supported:
221
222 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
223
224 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
225
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226Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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228* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
229 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
230 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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232* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
233 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
234 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
235 when libc.so is issued directly.
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237* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
238
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239The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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241 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
242 return different result with versioned "foo"
243 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
244 mess
245 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
246 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
247 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
248 calls dlclose
249 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
250 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
251 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
252 enforced
253 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
254 deadlock
255 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
256 format
257 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
258 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
259 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
260 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
261 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
262 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
263 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
264 other standards.
265 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
266 from the stack
267 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
268 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
269 (breaks test isolation)
270 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
271 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
272 __convert_scm_timestamps
273 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
274 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
275 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
276 missing libraries
277 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
278 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
279 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
280 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
281 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
282 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
283 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
284 SUCCESS=MERGE
285 [28936] build: nm: No such file
286 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
287 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
288 clobbers errno
289 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
290 bench.
291 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
292 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
293 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
294 /proc/self/fd/
295 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
296 on ENOENT and EACCES
297 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
298 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
299 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
300 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
301 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
302 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
303 is promoted to global scope
304 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
305 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
306 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
307 broke ld.so
308 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
309 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
310 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
311 failure
312 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
313 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
314 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
315 before '__fortified_attr_access'
316 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
317 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
318 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
319 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
320 value for filling after \0
321 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
322 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
323 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
324 aware
325 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
326 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
327 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
328 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
329 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
330 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
331 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
332 line 184
333 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
334 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
335 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
336 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
337 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
338 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
339 missing on microblaze with largefile
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341Version 2.35
342
343Major new features:
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345* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
346 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
347 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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349* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
350 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
351
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352* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
353 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
354 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
355 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
356 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
357 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
358 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
359 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
360 glibc, and must be installed.
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362* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
363 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
364 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
365
366 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
367 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
368
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369 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
370 fMxfmafNx functions.
371
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372* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
373 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
374 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
375 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
376 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
377 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
378
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379* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
380 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
381 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
382 M_SQRT1_2f.
383
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384* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
385 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
386
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387* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
388 macro in <tgmath.h>.
389
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390* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
391
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392* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
393 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
394 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
395
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396* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
397 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
398 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
399 object dependency cases.
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401* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
402 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
403 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
404 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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406* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
407 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
408 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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410* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
411 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
412 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
413 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
414 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
415 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
416 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
417 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
418 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
419 Restartable Sequences.
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421* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
422 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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424* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
425 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
426 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
427 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
428 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
429 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
430 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
431 configuration.
432
5f6d8d97 433* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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434 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
435 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
436 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
437 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
438 huge pages.
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440* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
441 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
442
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443* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
444 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
445 address.
446
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447* Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
448 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
449 ABI is supported:
450
451 - or1k-linux-gnu
452
453 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
454 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
455
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456* A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
457 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
458 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
459 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
460 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
461
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462* On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
463 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
464
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465* The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
466 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
467 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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469* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
470 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
471 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
472 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
473 bounds).
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476 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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481 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
482 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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485 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
486
487 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
488 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
489
490 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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495 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
496 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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499 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
500 catching coredumps and backtraces.
501
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503 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
504 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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507 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
508 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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511 support prelink PIE binaries.
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516 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
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518 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
519 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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522 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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524 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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526Security related changes:
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528 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
529 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
530 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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532 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
533 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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536 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
537 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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539 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
540 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
541 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
542 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
543 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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547 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
548 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
549 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
550 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
551 many dsos
552 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
553 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
554 degradation
555 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
556 loaded with dlmopen
557 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
558 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
559 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
560 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
561 ID whose lifetime has not ended
562 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
563 (CVE-2022-23219)
564 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
565 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
566 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
567 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
568 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
569 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
570 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
571 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
572 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
573 --enable-initfini-array
574 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
575 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
576 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
577 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
578 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
579 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
580 empty
581 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
582 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
583 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
584 built with ld.lld
585 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
586 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
587 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
588 2.34
589 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
590 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
591 robustness
592 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
593 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
594 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
595 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
596 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
597 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
598 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
599 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
600 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
601 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
602 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
603 file
604 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
605 only dynamic section
606 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
607 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
608 recvmsg()
609 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
610 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
611 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
612 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
613 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
614 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
615 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
616 C2X
617 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
618 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
619 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
620 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
621 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
622 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
623 globalmod1.so
624 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
625 systems with TIMESIZE=64
626 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
627 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
628 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
629 spurious NUL character on state reset
630 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
631 incorrect
632 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
633 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
634 execution test
635 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
636 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
637 hppa
638 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
639 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
640 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
641 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
642 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
643 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
644 crashes
645 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
646 binutils changes
647 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
648 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
649 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
650 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
651 is not useful
652 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
653 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
654 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
655 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
656 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
657 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
658 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
659 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
660 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
661 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
662 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
663 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
664 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
665 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
666 (CVE-2022-23218)
667 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
668 (CVE-2021-3999)
669 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
670 results (CVE-2021-3998)
671 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
672 in Systemtap probes
673 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
674 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
675 x86-64-baseline
676 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
677 with no closing ]
678 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
679 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
680 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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684
685Major new features:
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688 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
689 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
690 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
691 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
692 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
693 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
694 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
695 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
696 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
697 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
698 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
699 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
700 potentially exposing application bugs.
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703 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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705 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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707* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
708 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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711 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
712 Arm SVE.
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715 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
716 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
717
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719 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
720 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
721 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
722
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726 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
727 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
728 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
729 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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732 --disable-scv configure option.
733
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735 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
736 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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738 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
739 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
740 version of 5.1.
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743 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
744 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
745 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
746 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
747 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
748 that directory.
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751 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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754 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
755 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
756 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
757 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
758 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
759 is currently a GNU extension.
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762 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
763
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766 although it is also present in other systems.
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769 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
770 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
771 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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774 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
775 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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780 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
781 instead.
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784 programs should use the equivalent standard function
785 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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788 programs should use the equivalent standard function
789 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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792 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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795
796* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
797 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
798 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
799 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
800 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
801 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
802 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
803 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
804 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
805 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
806 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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809 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
810 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
811 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
812 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
813 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
814 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
815 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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818 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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821 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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823 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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826 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
827 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
828 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
829 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
830 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
831 upgrade or downgrade process.
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834 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
835 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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838 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
839 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
840 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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843 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
844 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
845 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
846 this functionality back.
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849 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
850 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
851 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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854 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
855 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
856 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
857 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
858 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
859 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
860 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
861 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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866 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
867 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
868 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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870Security related changes:
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873 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
874 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
875 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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877 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
878 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
879 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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882 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
883 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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888 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
889 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
890 given integer (closefrom)
891 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
892 name containing multi-byte character(s)
893 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
894 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
895 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
896 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
897 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
898 random thread
899 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
900 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
901 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
902 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
903 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
904 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
905 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
906 manual is incorrect
907 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
908 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
909 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
910 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
911 pthread_create and dlopen
912 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
913 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
914 when non-root user changes priority
915 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
916 dlopen
917 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
918 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
919 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
920 ordered correctly
921 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
922 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
923 data.
924 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
925 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
926 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
927 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
928 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
929 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
930 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
931 the right free implementation
932 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
933 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
934 shm_open to pick wrong directory
935 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
936 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
937 protector=all)
938 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
939 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
940 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
941 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
942 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
943 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
944 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
945 uninitialized
946 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
947 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
948 system calls
949 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
950 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
951 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
952 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
953 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
954 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
955 deployments
956 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
957 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
958 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
959 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
960 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
961 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
962 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
963 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
964 is present
965 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
966 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
967 protector=all
968 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
969 information for the current directory
970 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
971 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
972 dl_runtime_resolve_*
973 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
974 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
975 containers
976 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
977 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
978 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
979 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
980 INT_MAX
981 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
982 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
983 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
984 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
985 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
986 tries resolving them lazily
987 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
988 libthread_db
989 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
990 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
991 argument
992 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
993 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
994 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
995 not set ENOMEM
996 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
997 randomization
998 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
999 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1000 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1001 IS_ERR_VALUE
1002 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1003 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1004 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1005 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1006 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1007 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1008 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1009 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1010 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1011 with n >= 0x80000000
1012 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1013 thread never allocated anything
1014 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1015 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1016 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1017 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1018 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1019 on older kernels
1020 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1021 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1022 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1023 AMD64 cpus
1024 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1025 terminator
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1030Major new features:
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1033 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1034 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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1037 to change argv[0] string.
1038
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1040 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1041 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1042 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1043 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1044 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1045 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1046 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1047 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1048
1049* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1050 information and library search path diagnostics.
1051
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1053 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1054 larger than fit in an integer.
1055
96203980 1056* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1058* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1059 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1060
1061 - rv32imac ilp32
1062 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1063 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1064
1065 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1066 2.28.
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1069 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1070 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1071 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1072 fortification.
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1077 mallinfo2 instead.
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1080 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1081 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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1084 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1085 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1086 prlimit.
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1089 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1090 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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1093 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1094 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1095 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1096 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1097 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1098
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1100 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1101 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1102 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1103 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1104 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1105 loaded.
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1110 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1111 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1112 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1113 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1114 perform any adjustments.
1115
1116* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1117 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1118 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1119 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1124
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934c48a0 1126 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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1128 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1129 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1130
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1131 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1132 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1133 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1136 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1139 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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1144 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1145 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1146 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1147 AT_EACCESS
1148 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 1149 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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1151 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1152 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1153 with GCC
1154 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1155 stack-protector=all
1156 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1157 cases
1158 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1159 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1160 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1161 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1162 changing gnuc version
1163 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1164 incorrect
1165 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1166 bits
1167 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1168 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1169 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1170 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1171 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1172 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1173 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1174 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1175 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1176 too much stack space
1177 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1178 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1179 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1180 with optimization.
1181 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1182 anymore
1183 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1184 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1185 non-FMA4 system
1186 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1187 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1188 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1189 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1190 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1191 getaddrinfo
1192 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1193 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1194 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1195 fault
1196 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1197 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1198 at the end of a memory mapping
1199 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1200 by the caller to the kernel
1201 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1202 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1203 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1204 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1205 monotonic clocks
1206 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1207 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1208 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1209 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1210 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1211 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1212 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1213 one element
1214 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1215 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1216 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1217 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1218 lazy bound
1219 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1220 PI mutexes
1221 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1222 not safe
1223 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1224 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1225 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1226 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1227 platform
1228 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1229 startup code
1230 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1231 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1232 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1233 protected
1234 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1235 only since 2.31
1236 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1237 locked
1238 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1239 aligned
1240 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1241 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1242 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1243 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1244 detection logic
1245 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1246 pclose(3))
1247 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1248 setup
1249 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1250 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1251 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1252 work
1253 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1254 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1255 [27177] dynamic-link:
1256 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1257 work
1258 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1259 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1260 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1261 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1265
1266Major new features:
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1269 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1271
1272* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1275 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1276 Three ABIs are supported:
1277
1278 - arc-linux-gnu
1279 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1280 - arceb-linux-gnu
1281
4d3a77c7 1282 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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1286 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1287
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1291 this option.
1292
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1294 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1295 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1296
4d3a77c7 1297* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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1299 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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1301* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1302 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1303 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1304 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1305 libpthread.
1306
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1309 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1310 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1312 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1313
1314 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1315 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1316
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1319 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1321 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1322 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1323
1324 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1325 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1326
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1328 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1330 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1331 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1333 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1334 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1335 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1336 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1337 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1338 BTI compatible.
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1343 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1344 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1345 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1346 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1347 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1348 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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1351 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1352 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1353 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1354 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1355 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1356 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
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1361 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1362 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1363 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1364 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1367 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1368 was not declared in any header file.
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1370* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1371 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1372 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1373 sigaction functions instead.
1374
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1376 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
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1379 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1380 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1381 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1382 strsignal instead.
1383
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1385 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1386 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1387 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1388 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1389
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1390* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1391 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1392 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1393 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1394
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1396 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1397 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1398 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1399 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1400 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1401 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1402
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1403* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1404 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1405 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1406 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1407 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1409* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1410 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1411 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1412 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1413 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1414 object, to enable the hooks.
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1416* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1417 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1418 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1419 LDAP.
1420
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1424 long double redirects.
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1426Security related changes:
1427
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1428 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1429 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1430 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1431
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1432 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1433 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1434 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1436 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1437 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1438
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1439 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1440 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1441 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1442 TALOS-2020-1019).
1443
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1446 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1447 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1448 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1449 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1450 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1451 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1452 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1453 filtee has constructor
1454 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1455 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1456 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1457 character entities for infinity & pi
1458 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1459 segfaults in applications
1460 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1461 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1462 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1463 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1464 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1465 function with -mlong-double-64
1466 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1467 binding
1468 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1469 ld.so.cache
1470 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1471 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1472 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1473 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1474 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1475 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1476 linker
1477 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1478 dynamically loaded dsos
1479 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1480 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1481 access
1482 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1483 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1484 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1485 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1486 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1487 stale configuration forever
1488 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1489 (CVE-2020-10029)
1490 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1491 defaults to PIE
1492 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1493 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1494 (CVE-2020-6096)
1495 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1496 on 32 bit and old kernel
1497 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1498 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1499 Occitan
1500 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1501 amount of sigset_t bytes
1502 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1503 strings
1504 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1505 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1506 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1507 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1508 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1509 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1510 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1511 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1512 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1513 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1514 size_t
1515 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1516 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1517 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1518 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1519 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1520 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1521 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1522 cpu=power9
1523 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1524 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1525 segfault
1526 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1527 exiting detached thread
1528 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1529 for x32
1530 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1531 ERANGE
1532 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1533 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1534 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1535 dependencies in audit mode
1536 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1537 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1538 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1539 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1540 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1541 input
1542 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1543 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1544 preserve r2
1545 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1546 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1547 variables
1548 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1549 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1550 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1551 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1552 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1553 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1554 corruption in memset
1555
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1558
1559Major new features:
1560
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1561* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1562 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1563 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1564 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1565 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1566 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1568* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1569 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1570 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1571 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1572
69ca4b54 1573* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1574 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1575 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1576
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1577* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1578
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1579* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1580 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1581 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1582 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1583 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1584 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1585 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1586 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1587
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1588Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1589
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1590* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1591 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1592 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1593 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1594 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1595 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1596
12cbde1d 1597* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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1598 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1599 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1600
1601* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1602 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1603 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1604 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1605
1606* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1607 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1608 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1609 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1610 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1611 made this no longer practical.
1612
1613 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1614 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1615 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1616 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1617 release.)
1618
1619 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1620 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1621 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1622
1623 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1624 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1625 using clock_gettime instead.
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1627* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1628 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1629 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1630 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1631 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1632
1633 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1634 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1635 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1636 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1637
1638 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1639 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1640 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1641 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1642 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1643 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1644
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1645 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1646 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1647 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1648 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1649 offset API.
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1651* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1652 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1653 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1655 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1656 configurations.
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1658* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1659 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1660 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1661 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1662 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1663
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1665 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1666 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1667 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1668 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1669 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1670 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1671 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1672
1673 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1674 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1675
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1676* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1677 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1678 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1679 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1680 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1681 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1682
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1683Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1684
a1bd5f86 1685* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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1686 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1687 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1689* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1690 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1691 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1692
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1693Security related changes:
1694
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1695 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1696 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1697
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1698 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1699 environment variable during program execution after a security
1700 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1701 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1702 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1704The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1706 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1707 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1708 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1709 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1710 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1711 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1712 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1713 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1714 linking failure
1715 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1716 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1717 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1718 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1719 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1720 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1721 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1722 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1723 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1724 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1725 7408-2005
1726 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1727 with localedef
1728 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1729 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1730 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1731 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1732 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1733 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1734 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1735 utmp entries
1736 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1737 ABSOLUTE ABI
1738 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1739 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1740 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1741 (stringop-overflow error)
1742 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1743 functions other can lead to crashes
1744 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1745 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1746 unconditionally
1747 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1748 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1749 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1750 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1751 still can fail with an error
1752 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1753 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1754 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1755 initialized correctly
1756 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1757 -frewrite-includes
1758 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1759 value to an unsigned
1760 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1761 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1762 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1763 protection
1764 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1765 ifunc variant.
1766 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1767 al. for Clang++
1768 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1769 (Slovenian)
1770 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1771 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1772 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1773 with -std=c11
1774 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1775 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1776 part
1777 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1778 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1779 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1780 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1781 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1782 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1785Version 2.30
1786
1787Major new features:
1788
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1789* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1790 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1791 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1792
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1793* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1794 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1796* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1797 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1798 to the callback function.
1799
51ea67d5 1800* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1802* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1803 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1804 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1805
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1807
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1808* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1809 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1810 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1811 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1812 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1813
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1814* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1815 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1816 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1817 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1818 link time reference, is gone.
1819
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1820* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1821 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1822 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1823 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1824 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1825 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1826 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1827 the clock choice at initialization time).
1828
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1829* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1830 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1831 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1832
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1833Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1834
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1835* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1836 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1837 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1838 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1839 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1840 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1841 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1842 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1843 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1846 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1847 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1848 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1849 since glibc 2.17.
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1851* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1852 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
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1854* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1855 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
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1857* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1858 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
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1860* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1861 BIND_NOW flag.
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1864 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1865 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
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1867* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1868 header have been removed.
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1870* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1871 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1872 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1873 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1878
1879 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1880 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1882Security related changes:
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1884 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1885 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1886 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1887 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1888 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1889 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1890 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1892 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1893 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1894 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1898 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1899 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1900 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1901 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1902 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1903 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1904 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1905 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1906 invalid input drops valid char
1907 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1908 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1909 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1910 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1911 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1912 malloc.h.
1913 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1914 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1915 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1916 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1917 functions
1918 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1919 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1920 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1921 for long double = double
1922 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1923 long double = double
1924 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1925 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1926 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1927 long timeouts
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1929 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1930 checking for NULL.
1931 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1932 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1933 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1934 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1935 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1936 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1937 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1938 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1939 not the default "nor"
1940 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1941 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1942 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1943 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1944 compiler barriers.
1945 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1946 unnecessary librt dependencies
1947 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1948 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1949 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1950 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1951 unsorted chunk
1952 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1953 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1954 to R_SPARC_H44
1955 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1956 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1957 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1958 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1959 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1960 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1961 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1962 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1963 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1964 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1965 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1966 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1967 was not used
1968 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1969 tests
1970 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1971 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1972 time_t changes
1973 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1974 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1975 kernels and break testing
1976 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1977 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1978 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1979 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1980 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1981 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1982 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1983 -O3 -march=skylake
1984 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1985 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1986 crash
1987 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1988 linked glibc
1989 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1990 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1991 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1992 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1993 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1994 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1995 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1996 always implemented in the same library
1997 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1998 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1999 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2000 testroot
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2004
2005Major new features:
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2008 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2009
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2010* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2011 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2012 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2013 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2014 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2015 configured location.
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2019* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2020 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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2022* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2023 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2024 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2025 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2026 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2027 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2028 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2029 process actually does not use HTM).
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2032 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2033 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2034 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2035 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2036 of the same name.
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2038* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2039 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2040 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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2044* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2045 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2046 supported:
2047 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2048 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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2050* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2051 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2052 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2053 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2054 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2055 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2056 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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2059 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2060 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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2062Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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2065 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2067* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2068 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2069 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2070 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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2072* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2073 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2074 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2075 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2076 structures.
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2078* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2079 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2080 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2081 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2082 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2083 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2084
2085 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2086 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2087 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2088 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2089 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2090
2091 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2092 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2093 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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2096
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2099* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2100 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2101
2102 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2103 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2107 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2108 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2109 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2112 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2113 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2114 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2115 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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2117 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2118 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2119 or command injection issues in applications.
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2123 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2124 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2125 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2126 thousands
2127 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2128 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2129 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2130 --param options)
2131 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2132 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2133 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2134 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2135 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2136 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2137 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2138 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2139 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2140 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2141 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2142 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2143 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2144 pointer argument is non-NULL
2145 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2146 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2147 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2148 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2149 multithreads call popen
2150 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2151 and pthread_create fails.
2152 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2153 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2154 constructor
2155 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2156 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2157 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2158 source tree
2159 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2160 float
2161 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2162 one error
2163 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2164 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2165 linker
2166 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2167 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2168 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2169 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2170 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2171 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2172 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2173 filesystems
2174 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2175 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2176 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2177 functions
2178 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2179 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2180 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2181 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2182 have wrong type
2183 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2184 wrong type
2185 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2186 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2187 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2188 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2189 threads
2190 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2191 start.S
2192 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2193 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2194 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2195 powerpc64le
2196 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2197 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2198 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2199 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2200 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2201 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2202 strftime
2203 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2204 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2205 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2206 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2207 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2208 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2209 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2210 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2211 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2212 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2213 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2214 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2215 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2216 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2217 tcache size
2218 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2219 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2220 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2221 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2222 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2223 (CVE-2018-19591)
2224 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2225 nearest rounding mode
2226 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2227 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2228 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2229 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2230 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2231 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2232 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2233 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2234 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2235 error
2236 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2237 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2238 using GCC 8
2239 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2240 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2241 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2242 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2243 ppc64le
2244 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2245 expected result
2246 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2247 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2248 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2249 sigaltstack
2250 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2251 answers will be rejected)
2252 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2260 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2261 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2262 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2263 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2264 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2265 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2266 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2267 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2268 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2269 archive or binary locales.
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2272 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2273 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2274 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2275 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2276 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2277 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2278 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2279 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2280 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2281 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2282 validated for i686.
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2284* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2285 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2286 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2287 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2288 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2289 field) to indicate such support is required.
2290
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2291* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2292 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2293 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2294
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2295* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2296 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2297
2298 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2299 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2301 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2302 fMxsubfNx functions.
2303
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2304 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2305 fMxmulfNx functions.
2306
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2307 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2308 fMxdivfNx functions.
2309
e607a352 2310* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2311 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2312 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2313 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2314 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 2315
61c4aad7 2316* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2317 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
a1e0c5fa 2318
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2319* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2320 patches.
2321
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2322* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2323 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2324 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2325 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2326 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2327 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2328 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2329 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2330
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2331* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2332 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2333 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2334 the fstatat64 function.
2335
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2336* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2337 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2338 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2339 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2340 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2341 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2342 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2343 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2344 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2345
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2346* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2347 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2348 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2349 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2350 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2351 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2352 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2353 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2354 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2355 results in a load failure now.
2356
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2357* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2358 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2359 <threads.h>:
2360
2361 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2362 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2363
2364 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2365 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2366
2367 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2368
2369 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2370 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2371
2372 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2373
2374 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2375
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2376Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2377
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2378* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2379 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2380 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2381
2382* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2383 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2384 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2385 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2386 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2387 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2388
2389* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2390 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2391 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2392 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2393 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2394 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2395 (Bug #1190.)
2396
2397* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2398 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2399 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2400 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2401 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2402 further explanation.
2403
2404 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2405 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2406 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2408* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2409
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2410* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2411 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2412 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2413
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2414* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2415 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2416 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2417 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2418
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2419* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2420 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2421 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2422 for this function instead.
2423
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2424* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2425 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2426 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2427
2428* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2429 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2430 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2431 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2432
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2433* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2434 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2435 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2436 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2437 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2438
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2439* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2440 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2441 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2442 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2443 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2444 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2445 such as libgcrypt.
2446
2447* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2448 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2449 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2450 enabled.
2451
2452* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2453 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2454 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2455
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2456* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2457 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2458 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2459 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2460 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2461 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2462
2463 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2464 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2465 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2466 behavior in a future release.
2467
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2468Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2469
f2873d2d 2470 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
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2471
2472Security related changes:
2473
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2474 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2475 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2476 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2477 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2479 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2480 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2481
2482 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2483 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2484 Izbyshev.
2485
2486 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2487 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2488 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2489
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2490The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2491
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2492 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2493 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2494 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2495 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2496 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2497 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2498 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2499 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2500 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2501 14651
2502 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2503 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2504 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2505 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2506 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2507 conversion is given
2508 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2509 date
2510 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2511 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2512 scope with -O1 and higher
2513 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2514 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2515 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2516 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2517 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2518 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2519 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2520 horrible machine code)
2521 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2522 last constant.
2523 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2524 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2525 symbols
2526 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2527 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2528 defined
2529 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2530 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2531 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2532 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2533 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2534 fpscr.c'
2535 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2536 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2537 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2538 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2539 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2540 the base address
2541 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2542 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2543 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2544 open_verify
2545 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2546 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2547 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2548 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2549 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2550 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2551 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2552 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2553 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2554 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2555 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2556 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2557 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2558 dlopen
2559 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2560 AT_SECURE=1
2561 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2562 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2563 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2564 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2565 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2566 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2567 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2568 for Spanish with CLDR
2569 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2570 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2571 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2572 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2573 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2574 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2575 es_BO
2576 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2577 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2578 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2579 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2580 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2581 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2582 dlopen failures
2583 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2584 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2585 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2586 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2587 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2588 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2589 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2590 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2591 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2592 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2593 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2594 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2595 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2596 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2597 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2598 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2599 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2600 makecontext
2601 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2602 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2603 required
2604 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2605 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2606 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2607 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2608 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2609 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2610 disabled
2611 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2612 failure
2613 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2614 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2615 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2616 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2617 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2618 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2619 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2620 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2621 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2622 and libc build with -Os)
2623 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2624 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2625 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2626 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2627 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2628 that changes /etc/passwd
2629 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2630 (CVE-2018-11237)
2631 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2632 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2633 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2634 posix/regcomp.c
2635 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2636 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2637 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2638 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2639 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2640 AT_SECURE
2641 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2642 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2643 parser.c
2644 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2645 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2646 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2647 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2648 directed rounding
2649 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2650 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2651 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2652 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2653 lookup
2654 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2655 interposition
2656 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2657 DSO boundaries.
2658 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2659 <linux/time.h>
2660 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2661 checking
2662 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2663 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2664 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2665 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2666 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2667 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2668 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2669 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2670 processors
2671 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2674Version 2.27
2675
2676Major new features:
2677
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2678* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2679 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2680 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2681 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2682 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2683 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2684 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2685 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2686 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 2688* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2689 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2690 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2692* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2693
4cf82d23 2694* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2696* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2697 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2698 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2699 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2700 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2701 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2702 from a security and performance perspective.
2703
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2704* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2705 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2706 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2707 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2708
81325b12 2709* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2710 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2711 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2712 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2713 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2714
a23aa5b7 2715* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2716 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2717 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2718 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2719 _Float128.
2720
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2721* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2722 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2723 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2724
4bab0224 2725* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2726
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2727* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2728 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2729 pkey_get.
2730
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2731* The copy_file_range function was added.
2732
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2733* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2734
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2735* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2736 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2737 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2738
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2739* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2740 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2741 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2742 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2743 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2744 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2745 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2746
2747 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2748 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2749 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2750 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2751 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2752 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2753 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2754
2755 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2756 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2757 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2758 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2759 respectively.
2760
2761 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2762 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2763 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2764 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2765
2766 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2767 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2768 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2769
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2770 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2771 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2772 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2774* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2775 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2776 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2777
2778 - rv64imac lp64
2779 - rv64imafdc lp64
2780 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2781
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2782Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2783
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2784* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2785 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2786 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2787 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2788 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2789 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2790 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2791 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2792 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2793 fix this.
2794
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2795* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2796 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2797 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2798
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2799* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2800 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2801 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2802 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2803 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2804 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2805 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2806 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2807 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2808 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2809 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2810 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2811 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2812 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2813 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2814 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2815 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2816 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2817 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2818 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2819 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2820 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2821 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2822 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2823 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2824 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2825
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2826* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2827 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 2828
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2829* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2830 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2831 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2832 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2833 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2834 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2835 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2836
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2837* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2838 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2839 exp10l for these functions instead.
2840
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2841* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2842 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2843 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2844
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2845* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2846 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2847 ignored.
2848
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2849* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2850 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2851 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2852 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2853
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2854* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2855 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2856
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2857* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2858 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2859
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2860* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2861 programs.
2862
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2863* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2864
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2865* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2866 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2867 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2868 instead.
2869
2870 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2871 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2872 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2873 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2874 use, but predates the bits convention.
2875
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2876Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2877
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2878* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2879 subdirectory.
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2880
2881Security related changes:
2882
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2883 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2884 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2885 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2886 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2887 script.)
00cdcf5a 2888
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2889 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2890 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2891 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2892 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2893
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2894 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2895 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2896 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2897 of service.
2898
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2899 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2900 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2901 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2902
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2903 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2904 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2905 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2906 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2907
8a0b17e4
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2908 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2909 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2910 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2911 Qualys.
2912
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2913 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2914 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2915 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2916 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2917 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2918
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2919 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2920 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2921 current directory.
2922
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2923 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2924 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2925 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2926
4590634f
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2927 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2928 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2929 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2930
71aa429b
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2931 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2932 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2933 small, instead of NULL.
2934
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2935The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2936
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2937 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2938 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2939 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2940 locale
2941 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2942 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2943 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2944 cases
2945 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2946 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2947 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2948 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2949 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2950 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2951 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2952 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2953 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2954 "Bangla"
2955 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2956 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2957 width Latin characters
2958 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2959 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2960 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2961 letters
2962 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2963 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2964 (CVE-2009-5064)
2965 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2966 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2967 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2968 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2969 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2970 if malloc succeeded
2971 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2972 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2973 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2974 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2975 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2976 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2977 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2978 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2979 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2980 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2981 U+309A
2982 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2983 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2984 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2985 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2986 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2987 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2988 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2989 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2990 for Nicaragua
2991 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2992 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2993 are not found.
2994 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2995 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2996 access
2997 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2998 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2999 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3000 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3001 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3002 __regcall calling convention
3003 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3004 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3005 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3006 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3007 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3008 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3009 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3010 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3011 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3012 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3013 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3014 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3015 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3016 locale
3017 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3018 protector=all
3019 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3020 wcwidth
3021 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3022 consistency check failures
3023 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3024 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3025 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3026 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3027 PIE
3028 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3029 locales
3030 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3031 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3032 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3033 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3034 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3035 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3036 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3037 on memory allocation failure
3038 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3039 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3040 the suspect)
3041 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3042 default (i386)
3043 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3044 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3045 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3046 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3047 instead of EAI_NODATA
3048 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3049 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3050 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3051 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3052 implementation
3053 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3054 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3055 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3056 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3057 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3058 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3059 allocation in syscall loops)
3060 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3061 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3062 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3063 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3064 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3065 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3066 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3067 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3068 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3069 occur with -O3
3070 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3071 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3072 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3073 amounts)
3074 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3075 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3076 niu_NZ
3077 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3078 checks
3079 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3080 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3081 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3082 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3083 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3084 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3085 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3086 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3087 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3088 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3089 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3090 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3091 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3092 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3093 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3094 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3095 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3096 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3097 parsing after OOM
3098 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3099 object
3100 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3101 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3102 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3103 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3104 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3105 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3106 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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3107 ppc64le
3108 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3109 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3110 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3111 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3112 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3113 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3114 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3115 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3116 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3117 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3118 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3119 math_force_eval
3120 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3121 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3122 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3123 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3124 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3125 the svid compat wrapper
3126 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3127 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3128 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3129 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3130 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3131 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3132 --verbose.
3133 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3134 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3135 to 2.26
3136 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3137 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3138 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3139 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3140 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3141 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3142 (CVE-2017-15804)
3143 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3144 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3145 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3146 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3147 failure."
3148 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3149 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3150 -m32
3151 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3152 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3153 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3154 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3155 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3156 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3157 inside the ASCII printable range
3158 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3159 -mlong-double-64
3160 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3161 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3162 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3163 Internet
3164 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3165 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3166 backslash
3167 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3168 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3169 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3170 heaps in an arena
3171 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3172 networking interface
3173 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3174 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3175 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3176 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3177 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3178 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3179 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3180 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3181 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3182 order
3183 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3184 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3185 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3186 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3187 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3188 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3189 same as for Croatian
3190 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3191 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3192 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3193 for initial thread"
3194 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3195 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3196 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3197 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3198 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3199 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3200 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3201 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3202 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3203 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3204 modified in case of success
3205 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3206 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3207 success
3208 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3209 stack-protector=all
3210 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3211 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3212 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3213 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3214 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3215 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3216 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3217 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3218 adding it on top
3219 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3220 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3221 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3222 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3223 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3224 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3225 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3226 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3227 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3228 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3229 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3230 elision and tunables
3231 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3232 "invalid" exception
3233 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3234 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3235 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3236 exception
3237 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3238 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3239 power4
3240 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3241 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3242 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3243 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3244 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3245 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3246 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3247 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3248 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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3251Version 2.26
3252
2b2ccd0c
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3253Major new features:
3254
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3255* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3256 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3257 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3258 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3259 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3260 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3261 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3262
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3263* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3264 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3265 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
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3266 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3267 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3268 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3269 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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3271* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3272 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3273 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3274
2b2ccd0c 3275* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3276
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3277 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3278 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3279 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3280
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3281 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3282 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3283 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3284 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3285 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3286
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3287 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3288 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3289 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3290
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3291* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3292 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3293
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3294* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3295 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3296 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3297 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3298
2b2ccd0c
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3299* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3300 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3301 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3302 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3303
2b2ccd0c
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3304* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3305 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3306 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3307 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3308
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3309* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3310 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3311 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3312
2b2ccd0c 3313* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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3314 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3315 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3316 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3317
2b2ccd0c 3318 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3319 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3320 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3321 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3322 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3323
3324 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3325 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3326 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3327 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3328 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3329 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3330
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3331Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3332
3333* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3334 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3335 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3336 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3337 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3338 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3339 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3340 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3341
3342* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3343 removed.
3344
3345* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3346 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3347 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3348 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3349
3350* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3351 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3352 default.
3353
3354 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3355 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3356 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3357 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3358 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3359
3360 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3361 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3362 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3363 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3364
3365* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3366 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3367 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3368 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3369
3370* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3371 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3372
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3373* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3374 exported by accident.
3375
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3376* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3377 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3378 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3379
3380* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3381 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3382 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3383 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3384
3385* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3386
3387* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3388
3389* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3390 free instead.
3391
3392* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3393 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3394
3395* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3396 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3397
3398* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3399 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3400 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3401 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3402 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3403 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3404 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3405 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3406
3407* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3408 synced with the kernel:
3409
3410 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3411 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3412
3413 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3414 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3415 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3416
3417 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3418 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3419
3420Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3421
3422* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3423 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3424 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3425
7e368000 3426* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3428* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3429 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3430
3431 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3432 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3433 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3434 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3435 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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3437Security related changes:
3438
e14a2772 3439* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3440 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3441
3442* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3443 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3444
3445* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3446 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3447 (CVE-2010-3192).
3448
3449* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3450 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3451
3452The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3453
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3454 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3455 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3456 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3457 fields
3458 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3459 (CVE-2010-3192)
3460 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3461 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3462 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3463 ld.bfd is available
3464 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3465 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3466 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3467 x86 and other generic code
3468 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3469 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3470 incorrect
3471 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3472 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3473 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3474 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3475 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3476 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3477 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3478 resolver
3479 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3480 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3481 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3482 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3483 chillu characters
3484 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3485 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3486 receiving data
3487 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3488 whitespace
3489 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3490 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3491 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3492 for Peru
3493 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3494 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3495 failures consistently
3496 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3497 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3498 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3499 frame-pointer on i386
3500 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3501 register
3502 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3503 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3504 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3505 generic c code is used
3506 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3507 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3508 around 4000
3509 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3510 (CVE-2017-12133)
3511 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3512 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3513 with -lieee
3514 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3515 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3516 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3517 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3518 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3519 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3520 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3521 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3522 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3523 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3524 remove()
3525 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3526 checked for errors.
3527 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3528 new posix_spawn implementation
3529 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3530 leads to lower CPU frequency
3531 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3532 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3533 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3534 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3535 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3536 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3537 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3538 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3539 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3540 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3541 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3542 not support gethostbyname4_r
3543 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3544 switching
3545 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3546 arenas
3547 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3548 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3549 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3550 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3551 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3552 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3553 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3554 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3555 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3556 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3557 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3558 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3559 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3560 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3561 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3562 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3563 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3564 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3565 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3566 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3567 retry value
3568 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3569 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3570 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3571 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3572 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3573 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3574 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3575 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3576 [21537] libc:
3577 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3578 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3579 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3580 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3581 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3582 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3583 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3584 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3585 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3586 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3587 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3588 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3589 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3590 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3591 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3592 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3593 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3594 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3595 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3596 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3597 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3598 issue on x86-64
3599 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3600 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3601 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3602 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3603 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3604 construction
3605 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3606 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3607 between_2_3
3608 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3609 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3610 conditions
3611 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3612 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3613 Hindi Locale
3614 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3615 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3616 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3617 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3618 locale
3619 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3620 leading to relocation crash
3621 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3622 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3623 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3624 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3625 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3626 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3627 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3628 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3629 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3630 locale
3631 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3632 locale
3633 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3634 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3635 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3636 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3637 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3638 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3639 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3640 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3641 strings
3642 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3643 protector=all
3644 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3645 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3646 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3647 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3648 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3649 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3650 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3651 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3652 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3653 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3654 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3655 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3656 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3657 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3658 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3659 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3660 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3661 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3662 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3663 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3664 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3665 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3666 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3667 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3668 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3669 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3670 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3671 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3672 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3673 with unicode 9.0
3674 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3675 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3676 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3677 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3678 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3679
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3681Version 2.25
3682
48789000
JM
3683* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3684 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3685 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3686 Library.
e720d3d9 3687
bf91be88
JM
3688* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3689 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3690 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3691 the GNU C Library.
3692
412cb261
JM
3693* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3694 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3695 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3696 the GNU C Library.
3697
c0307377
ZW
3698* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3699 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3700 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3701 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3702 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3703 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3704 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3705 will not.
3706
3707 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3708 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3709 many years.
3710
dbab6577
ZW
3711* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3712 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3713 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3714
3715 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3716 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3717 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3718 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3719 problem.
3720
ec94343f 3721* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3722 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3723 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3724
a292f45a
JM
3725* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3726 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3727 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3728 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3729 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3730 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3731 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3732 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3733 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3734 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3735 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3736 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3737
d942e95c
JM
3738* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3739
f82a4bdb
JM
3740 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3741
423c2b9d
JM
3742 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3743 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3744 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3745
55a38f82
JM
3746 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3747 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3748
525f8039
JM
3749 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3750 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3751
1e7c8fcc
JM
3752 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3753
29cb9293 3754 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3755
cc6a8d74
JM
3756 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3757 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3758
eaf5ad0b
JM
3759 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3760
eb3c12c7 3761 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3762 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3763
f3b904d9
JM
3764* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3765 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3766
cecbc796
NA
3767* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3768 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3769 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3770
ea1bd74d
ZW
3771* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3772 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3773 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3774 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3775 effects of the memory clear).
3776
b0216d3e
JM
3777* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3778 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3779 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3780 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3781
f3b904d9
JM
3782* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3783 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3784 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3785 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3786 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3787 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3788
92dcaa3e
FW
3789* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3790 have been added.
3791
705a79f8
FW
3792* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3793 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3794 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3795 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3796 as large as several megabytes.
3797
4d728087
FW
3798* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3799 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3800 been removed.
3801
e863cce5
FW
3802* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3803 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3804 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3805 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3806 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3807 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3808 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3809
7ec47a85
FW
3810* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3811 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3812 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3813 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3814
099191b1 3815* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3816 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3817 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3818 Internet.
3819
bbe989ee
FW
3820* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3821 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3822 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3823
b76e0659
FW
3824* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3825 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3826 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3827 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3828
3a2a1d2c
FW
3829* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3830 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3831 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3832 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3833 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3834
be728303
FW
3835* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3836 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3837 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3838 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3839 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3840
6815a33d
FW
3841* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3842 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3843 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3844 did not reflect that.
3845
022dfdce
SL
3846* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3847 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3848 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3849 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3850 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3851 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3852 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3853 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3854
23b5cae1
MG
3855* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3856 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3857 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3858 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3859
7715d3ab
SP
3860* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3861 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3862 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3863 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3864
0cea3587
SP
3865* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3866 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3867 guarantees.
3868
3869* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3870 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3871 make state changes.
3872
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3873Security related changes:
3874
fc82b0a2 3875* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3876 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3877 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3878 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3879 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3880
fc82b0a2
FW
3881* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3882 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3883 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3884 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3885 (CVE-2015-5180)
3886
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3887The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3888
fdb724f9 3889 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3890 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3891 protector-all
3892 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3893 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3894 before it started waiting
3895 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3896 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3897 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3898 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3899 wrong type
3900 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3901 library linked with pthread
3902 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3903 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3904 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3905 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3906 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3907 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3908 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3909 when it shouldnt
3910 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3911 not
3912 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3913 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3914 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3915 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3916 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3917 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3918 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3919 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3920 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3921 termination
3922 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3923 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3924 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3925 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3926 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3927 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3928 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3929 causes a segmentation fault
3930 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3931 linking
3932 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3933 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3934 uninitialized GOT
3935 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3936 versions
3937 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3938 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3939 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3940 is always true.
3941 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3942 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3943 modes
3944 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3945 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3946 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3947 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3948 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3949 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3950 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3951 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3952 libpthread.a
3953 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3954 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3955 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3956 _res_hconf
3957 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3958 information.
3959 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3960 penalty
3961 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3962 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3963 cause transition penalty
3964 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3965 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3966 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3967 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3968 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3969 mcount.oS)
3970 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3971 Checking
3972 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3973 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3974 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3975 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3976 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3977 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3978 multi-arch
3979 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3980 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3981 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3982 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3983 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3984 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3985 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3986 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3987 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3988 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3989 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3990 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3991 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3992 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3993 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3994 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3995 glibc
3996 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3997 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3998 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3999 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4000 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4001 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4002 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4003 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4004 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4005 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4006 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4007 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4008 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4009 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4010 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4011 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4012 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4013 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4014 RES_USE_INET6
4015 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4016 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4017 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4018 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4019 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4020 wrong condition
4021 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4022 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4023 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4024 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4025 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4026 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4027 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4028 clang
4029 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4030 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4031 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4032 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4033 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 4034\f
11fca961
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4035Version 2.24
4036
5b4ecd3f
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4037* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4038 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4039 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4040 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4041 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4042 architectures.
4043
b6ebba70
MF
4044* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4045 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4046 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4047
7584a3f9
FW
4048* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4049 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4050
b49ab5f4
FW
4051* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4052 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4053 instead of “union wait”.
4054
ced8f893
SG
4055* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4056 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4057 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4058 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4059 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4060 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4061 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4062
2ba3cfa1
FW
4063* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4064 API.
4065
b7a9b7b0
MF
4066* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4067 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4068 drop it.
6a54bcda 4069
41a359e2
RS
4070* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4071 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4072 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4073 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4074 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4075 extensions.
4076
11fca961
AZ
4077Security related changes:
4078
f5b3338d
FW
4079* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4080 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4081 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4082
4ab2ab03
FW
4083* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4084 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4085 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4086 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4087
5171f307
FW
4088* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4089 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4090 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4091
bc779a1a
FW
4092* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4093 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4094 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4095
fab38231
FW
4096* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4097 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4098 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4099 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4100
11fca961
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4101The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4102
3c4f81ec
CD
4103 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4104 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4105 of MS-DOS.
4106 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4107 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4108 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4109 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4110 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4111 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4112 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4113 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4114 CLDR data
4115 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4116 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4117 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4118 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4119 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4120 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4121 romanisation
4122 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4123 and +/-
4124 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4125 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4126 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4127 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4128 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4129 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4130 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4131 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4132 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4133 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4134 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4135 all locales
4136 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4137 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4138 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4139 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4140 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4141 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4142 execute
4143 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4144 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4145 -Wsystem-headers
4146 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4147 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4148 Romanian locale data
4149 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4150 symbol
4151 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4152 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4153 language
4154 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4155 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4156 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4157 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4158 machine
4159 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4160 description
4161 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4162 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4163 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4164 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4165 when using RTLD_NEXT
4166 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4167 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4168 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4169 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4170 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4171 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4172 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4173 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4174 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4175 Excavator core
4176 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4177 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4178 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4179 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4180 double range
4181 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4182 part zero incorrect
4183 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4184 equality tests
4185 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4186 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4187 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4188 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4189 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4190 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4191 glibc-2.22
4192 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4193 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4194 'tst-numeric.c'
4195 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4196 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4197 low part
4198 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4199 result
4200 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4201 unaligned stack
4202 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4203 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4204 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4205 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4206 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4207 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4208 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4209 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4210 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4211 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4212 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4213 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4214 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4215 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4216 modes
4217 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4218 server addresses
4219 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4220 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4221 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4222 response to getaddrinfo
4223 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4224 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4225 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4226 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4227 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4228 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4229 sometimes incorrect
4230 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4231 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4232 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4233 record types
4234 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4235 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4236 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4237 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4238 (CVE-2016-3075)
4239 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4240 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4241 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4242 resolving symbols
4243 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4244 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4245 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4246 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4247 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4248 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4249 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4250 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4251 gethosts
4252 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4253 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4254 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4255 (CVE-2016-3706)
4256 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4257 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4258 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4259 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4260 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4261 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4262 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4263 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4264 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4265 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4266 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4267 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4268 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4269 executable
4270 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4271 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4272 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4273 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4274 XPG3
4275 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4276 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4277 (CVE-2016-4429)
4278 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4279 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4280 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4281 AS not supporting AVX512
4282 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4283 sNaN argument
4284 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4285 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4286 argument
4287 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4288 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4289 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4290 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4291 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4292 eax=0x80000001
4293 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4294 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4295 subnormals
4296 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4297 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4298 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4299 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4300 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4301 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4302 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4303 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4304 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4305 input
4306 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4307 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4308 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4309 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4310 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4311 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4312 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4313 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4314 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4315 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4316 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4317 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4318 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4319 double rounding
4320 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4321 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4322 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4323 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4324 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4325 (Only arm/linux)
4326 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4327 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4328 fallbacks
4329 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4330 "invalid" exceptions
4331 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4332 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4333 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4334 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4335 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4336 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4337 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4338 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4339 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4340\f
aeb47bbc
DM
4341Version 2.23
4342
23256f5e
MF
4343* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4344 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4345 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4346 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4347 89, 16061, and 18568.
4348
2359035a
FW
4349* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4350 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4351 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4352 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4353 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4354 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4355 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4356
8b7b7f75
MW
4357* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4358 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4359 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4360
2eecc8af
FW
4361* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4362 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4363 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4364 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4365 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4366 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4367 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4368
a62719ba
FW
4369* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4370 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4371 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4372 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4373 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4374 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4375 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4376 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4377
bc148ca1
MF
4378* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4379 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4380 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4381 independent of the GNU C Library.
4382
1c70b6f1
ZW
4383* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4384 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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4386* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4387 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4388 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4389 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4390 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4391 Linux kernel.
4392
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4393* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4394 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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4396* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4397 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4398 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4399 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4400 defining their own copy.
4401
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4402* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4403 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4404 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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4406Security related changes:
4407
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4408* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4409 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4410
4411* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4412 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4413 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4414 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4415 (CVE-2015-8777)
4416
4417* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4418 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4419
4420* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4421 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4422
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4423* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4424 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4425 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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4427* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4428 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4429 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4430 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4431 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4432 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4433 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4434 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4435 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4436 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4437 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4438 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4439 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4440
ad372e29 4441The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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4443 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4444 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4445 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4446 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4447 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4448 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4449 use `mkstemp'
4450 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4451 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4452 overflow/underflow errors
4453 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4454 overflow/underflow
4455 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4456 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4457 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4458 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4459 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4460 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4461 are not contiguous
4462 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4463 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4464 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4465 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4466 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4467 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4468 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4469 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4470 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4471 all exceptions
4472 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4473 arguments
4474 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4475 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4476 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4477 should include
4478 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4479 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4480 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4481 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4482 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4483 GNU/Linux
4484 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4485 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4486 arguments
4487 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4488 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4489 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4490 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4491 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4492 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4493 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4494 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4495 rounding results
4496 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4497 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4498 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4499 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4500 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4501 fails
4502 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4503 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4504 block boundary
4505 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4506 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4507 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4508 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4509 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4510 4.7?
4511 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4512 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4513 (related to lock elision)
4514 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4515 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4516 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4517 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4518 (CVE-2015-8779)
4519 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4520 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4521 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4522 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4523 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4524 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4525 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4526 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4527 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4528 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4529 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4530 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4531 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4532 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4533 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4534 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4535 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4536 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4537 contains a vector instruction exception.
4538 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4539 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4540 locales
4541 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4542 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4543 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4544 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4545 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4546 missing break ?
4547 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4548 32bit processes
4549 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4550 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4551 infinity
4552 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4553 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4554 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4555 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4556 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4557 be forced unloaded
4558 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4559 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4560 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4561 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4562 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4563 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4564 statically too large
4565 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4566 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4567 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4568 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4569 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4570 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4571 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4572 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4573 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4574 FUTEX_SHARED
4575 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4576 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4577 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4578 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4579 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4580 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4581 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4582 opendir()
4583 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4584 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4585 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4586 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4587 signgam
4588 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4589 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4590 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4591 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4592 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4593 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4594 dependencies
4595 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4596 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4597 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4598 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4599 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4600 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4601 (CVE-2015-8776)
4602 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4603 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4604 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4605 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4606 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4607 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4608 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4609 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4610 contention
4611 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4612 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4613 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4614 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4615 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4616 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4617 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4618 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4619 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4620 rounding modes
4621 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4622 ILP32
4623 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4624 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4625 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4626 threshold
4627 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4628 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4629 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4630 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4631 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4632 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4633 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4634 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4635 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4636 pthread_setaffinity_np
4637 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4638 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4639 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4640 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4641 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4642 prelink
4643 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4644 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4645 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4646 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4647 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4648 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4649 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4650 bits/mathcalls.h
4651 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4652 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4653 for C99-based standards
4654 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4655 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4656 math-only
4657 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4658 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4659 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4660 disabled
4661 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4662 "inexact" exceptions
4663 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4664 arguments
4665 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4666 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4667 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4668 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4669 rules
4670 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4671 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4672 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4673 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4674 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4675 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4676 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4677 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4678 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4679 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4680 from 32bit
4681 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4682 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4683 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4684 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4685 subnormals
4686 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4687 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4688 error on 32-bit architectures
4689 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4690 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4691 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4692 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4693 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4694 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4695 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4696 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4697 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4698 -Os
4699 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4700 CPU's.
4701 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4702 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4703 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4704 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4705 architectures
4706 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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4708Version 2.22
4709
4710* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4711
3df5cd98 4712 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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4713 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4714 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4715 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4716 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4717 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4718 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4719 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4720 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4721 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4722 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4723 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4724 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4725 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4726 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4727 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4728 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4729 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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4730 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4731 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4732
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4733* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4734 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4735
2959eda9
AS
4736* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4737 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4738 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4739 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4740 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4741 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4742
42261ad7
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4743* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4744 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4745 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4746 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4747 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4748
afcd9480
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4749* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4750 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4751 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4752
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4753* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4754 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4755 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4756 17998.
4757
b13b96ca
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4758* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4759 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4760 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4761
4762* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
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4763 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4764 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4765 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4766 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
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4767 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4768 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4769 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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4770
4771* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4772 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4773 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4774 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
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4775
4776* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4777 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4778 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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4779
4780* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4781 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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4782
4783* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4784 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4785 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4786
a03ba363 4787 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4788 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4789 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4790\f
58b930ae
SP
4791Version 2.21
4792
4793* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4794
042e1521 4795 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4796 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4797 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4798 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4799 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4800 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4801 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4802 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4803 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4804 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4805 17892.
4806
46d54873
FW
4807* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4808 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4809 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4810 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4811 intended.
042e1521
CD
4812
4813* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4814 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4815 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4816 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4817 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4818 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4819
522e6ee3
CLT
4820* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4821
d3b00f46
AZ
4822* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4823 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4824 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4825
8d2c0a59
AZ
4826* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4827 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4828 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4829 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4830 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4831 effects being visible outside transactions.
4832
dc400d7b
RE
4833* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4834 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4835
0f9dfe04
L
4836* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4837
a39208bd
CD
4838* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4839 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4840 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4841 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4842 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4843
a5357b7c
JL
4844* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4845 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4846
e54db0ea
AM
4847* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4848 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4849 format.
11e3417a 4850
4863355a
JM
4851* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4852 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4853 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4854
a4ecc9eb
JM
4855* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4856 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4857
0d560bbf 4858* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4859
4860* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4861 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4862 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4863 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4864
4865* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4866 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4867
4868* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4869 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4870 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4871 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4872 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4873 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4874 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4875 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4876 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4877 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4878 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4879 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4880 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4881
4882 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4883 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4884 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4885 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4886 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4887\f
d5b396c1
AM
4888Version 2.20
4889
4890* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4891
6a9350c8
JM
4892 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4893 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4894 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4895 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4896 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4897 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4898 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4899 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4900 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4901 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4902 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4903 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4904 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4905 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4906 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4907
95ee7fb1
SL
4908* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4909 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4910 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4911 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4912 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4913 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4914 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4915 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4916 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4917 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4918
0961f7e1
JL
4919* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4920 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4921 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4922 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4923 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4924
f940b965
RE
4925* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4926
d0f5b3f8
JM
4927* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4928 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4929
d6fe5e58
JM
4930* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4931 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4932 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4933 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4934 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4935 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4936
464263cc
JM
4937* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4938 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4939
4940* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4941 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4942 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4943 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4944 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4945 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4946 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4947
4948* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4949
4950* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4951 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4952 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4953 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4954 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4955 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4956 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4957
4958* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4959 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4960 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4961 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4962 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4963
4964* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4965 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4966 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4967
4968* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4969 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4970 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4971 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4972
4973* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4974 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4975 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4976 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4977 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4978 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4979 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4980 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4981
4982* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4983 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4984 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4985 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4986 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4987 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4988 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4989 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4990 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4991
4992* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4993 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4994 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4995 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4996 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4997 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4998
4999* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5000 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5001 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5002 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5003\f
5004Version 2.19
5005
5006* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5007
fd2f9486
JM
5008 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5009 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5010 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5011 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5012 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5013 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5014 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5015 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5016 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5017 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5018 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5019 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5020 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5021 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5022 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5023 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5024 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5025 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5026
11520a57
CD
5027* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5028 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5029
2fe16229
CD
5030* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5031 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5032 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5033 extension which uses __block.
5034
303e567a
SP
5035* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5036 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5037 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5038 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5039 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5040
141f3a77
SP
5041* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5042 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5043 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5044 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5045 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5046
5047* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5048 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5049 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5050 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5051 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5052
5053* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5054 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5055 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5056
ba0d798c
WN
5057* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5058 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5059 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5060 #15856, #15857).
5061
7cbcdb36
SP
5062* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5063 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5064
82bab04b 5065* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5066 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5067
c5f840fd
MB
5068* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5069
3e181dda
CD
5070* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5071 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5072
3e181dda 5073* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5074
8a05c252
CL
5075* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5076
6055173a
JM
5077* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5078 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5079 for which the C library was built.
5080
b125d3e5
JM
5081* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5082 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5083 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5084 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5085 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5086 in the following circumstances:
5087
5088 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5089
5090 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5091 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5092
d4f66d37
JM
5093* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5094 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5095
3e181dda
CD
5096* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5097 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5098
ffb89e53
AO
5099* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5100
5d29ccce
SP
5101* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5102 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5103
8b7d57cd 5104* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5105
5106* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5107
fd712ef3 5108* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5109
c688b419
JM
5110* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5111 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5112 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5113 disable some of those declarations.
5114
7011c262 5115* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5116 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5117 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5118
5119* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5120 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5121
5122* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5123 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5124 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5125 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5126 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5127 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5128 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5129 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5130 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5131 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5132 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5133 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5134 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5135\f
5136Version 2.18
5137
5138* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5139
17db6e8d 5140 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5141 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5142 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5143 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5144 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5145 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5146 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5147 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5148 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5149 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5150 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5151 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5152 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5153 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
5154
5155* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5156 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5157 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5158 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5159 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5160 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5161
5b535ac4
AS
5162* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5163 #15078).
5164
1cef1b19
AS
5165* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5166 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5167
55e4107b
SP
5168* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5169 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5170 destructor calls to glibc.
5171
e5c74c63
SP
5172* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5173 output.
5174
5175* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5176 non-x86 architectures.
5177
e7521973
JM
5178* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5179
5180* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5181
5182* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5183 Richard Henderson.
5184
5185* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5186
5187* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5188 Richard Henderson.
5189
5190* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5191 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5192
8cfdb7e0
SP
5193* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5194
57267616
TS
5195* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5196 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5197
c204ab28
SP
5198* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5199 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5200
0748546f
PE
5201* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5202 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5203 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5204
61dd6208
SP
5205* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5206 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5207 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5208
5209* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5210 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5211 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5212 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5213 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5214
5215* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5216 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5217
5218* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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5219\f
5220Version 2.17
5221
5222* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5223
80ceeaee 5224 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5225 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5226 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5227 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5228 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5229 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5230 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5231 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5232 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5233 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5234 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5235 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5236 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5237 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5238 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5239
95b4f1b6
SE
5240* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5241
14bc93a9
JL
5242* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5243 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5244
b54eb3cb
JM
5245* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5246 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5247
7e2bd01f
MS
5248* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5249
08f43f9b
AK
5250* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5251 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5252 zEnterprise z196.
5253 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5254
84b3fd84
FW
5255* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5256 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5257 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5258
815e6fa3
GB
5259* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5260 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5261
400726de
MK
5262* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5263 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5264
7aab07e4 5265* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5266 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5267
15d0da8c
WS
5268* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5269 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5270
3cc3ef96
RM
5271* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5272 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5273 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5274 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5275
b54eb3cb
JM
5276* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5277 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5278
85429b1a 5279* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5280 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5281 default.
5282
b54eb3cb
JM
5283* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5284 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5285 information in --help and --version output.
5286
050af9c4
SP
5287* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5288 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5289 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5290
89a3ad0b
AO
5291* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5292 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5293 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5294 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5295 when the mode is enabled.
5296
6e6249d0
RM
5297* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5298 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5299 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5300 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5301 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5302 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5303 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5304
d9286582
NK
5305* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5306 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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5307\f
5308Version 2.16
5309
5310* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5311
a8133e19
JM
5312 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5313 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5314 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5315 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5316 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5317 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5318 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5319 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5320 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5321 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5322 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5323 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5324 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5325 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5326 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5327 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5328 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5329 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5330 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5331 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5332 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5333 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5334 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5335
a086b4d6
L
5336* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5337 configuring glibc with:
5338 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5339 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5340 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5341
380d7e87
UD
5342* ISO C11 support:
5343
5344 + define static_assert
5345
5346 + do not declare gets
5347
5348 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5349
5350 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5351 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5352 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5353 implementation.
8d44e150 5354
74033a25 5355 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
5356
5357 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5358
ac097f5c
UD
5359 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5360
16dd419d
UD
5361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5362
9dc4e1fb 5363* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
5364
5365* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5366
5367* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5369
5370* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5372
5373* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5374 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5375 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5376 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5377 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5378
21708942 5379* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5380 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5381 before 2.6.
83678f76 5382
edb00e4d
RH
5383* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5384 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5385 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5386
83678f76 5387* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5388
5389* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5390 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5391 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5392 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5393 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5394
5395* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5396
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5397* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5398 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5399
5400* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5401
5402* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5403 without a previously built glibc.
5404
5405* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5406 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5407
5408* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5409 now supported for ARM processors.
5410
5411* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5412 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5413 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5414
5415* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5416
5417* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5418 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5419 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5420 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5421
5422* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5423 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5424 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5425 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
5426
5427* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5428 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5429 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5430 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5431 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5432
5433* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5434 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5435 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5436 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5437\f
e80fab37 5438Version 2.15
11988f8f 5439
c0244a9d
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5440* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5441
aebae053
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5442 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5443 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5444 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5445 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5446 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5447 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5448 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5449
11988f8f
UD
5450* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5451 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
5452
5453* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5454 and support for initgroups lookups.
5455 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
5456
5457* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5458 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
5459
5460* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5461 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5462
fc2ee42a
LD
5463* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5464 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5465 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5466
d42964a0 5467* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
5468 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5469
1d3e4b61
UD
5470* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5471 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
5472 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5473
c55fbd1e
UD
5474* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5475 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
5476
5477* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
5479
5480* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
5482
5483* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
5485
5486* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5487 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5488
5489* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
5491
5492* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
5493
5494* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5495 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5496
f0b264f1
AZ
5497* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5498 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5499
6b64057b 5500* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5501\f
dded88cd 5502Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5503
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5504* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5505
553149f6 5506 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5507 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5508 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5509 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5510 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5511 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5512 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5513 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5514 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5515 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5516
7b57bfe5
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5517* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5518 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5519 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5520 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5521
5522 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5523 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5524 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5526
c6489db3 5527* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5528 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5529
72d1dddb 5530* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5531 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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5532
5533* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5534
5535* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
5537
5538* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5539 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5540 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5541 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5542\f
4828935d
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5543Version 2.13
5544
ac2b484c
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5545* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5546
c30b7ee2
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5547 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5548 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5549 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5550 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5551 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5552
10b3bedc 5553* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5554
ac2b484c 5555* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5556
e9f82e0d
UD
5557* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5558 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5559 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5560\f
ee1a7fab
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5561Version 2.12
5562
d36b9613
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5563* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5564
2e0fb521
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5565 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5566 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5567 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5568 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5569 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5570 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5571 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5572 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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5573
5574* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5575
ee1a7fab
UD
5576* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5577
5e4295fb
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5578* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5579
5580* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5581 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5583
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5584* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5585 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5586 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5587 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5588 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5589
d36b9613 5590* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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5591\f
5592Version 2.11
5593
d36b9613
UD
5594* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5595
5596 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5597 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5598 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5599 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5600 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5601 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5602
3a83202d
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5603* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5604 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
UD
5605 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5606
24ab9c76 5607* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5608 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5609
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5611 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5612
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5613* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5614
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9d36a6c4 5616 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5617 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5619
9d36a6c4 5620 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5621 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5622
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5623* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5624 strstr, strcasestr.
5625 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5626
5627* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5628 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5629
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5630* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5631 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5632
5633* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5634 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5635
5636* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5637 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5638 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5639 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5640 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5641 necessity is every process again.
5642 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5643
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5644* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5645 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5646
5647* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5648 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5649
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5650* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5651 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5652 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5653
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5657
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5658* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5659
5660 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5661 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5662 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5663 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5664 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5665
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5667 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5668
425ce2ed 5669* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5671
1fdd89a7 5672* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5673 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5675* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5676 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 5678* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5681* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5682 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5683
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5684* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5685 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5686
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5687* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5688 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5689
5690* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5691 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5692 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5693
735be400 5694* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5695
84aa52d7 5696* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5698
5699* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5700 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5702
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5703* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5705
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5706* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5707 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5708 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5709 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5710 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5714
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5716
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5718 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5719 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5720 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5721 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5724 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5725
5726* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5727 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5729* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5732* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5733 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5734 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5735
5736* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5737 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5740
5741* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5742 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5744* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5745 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5746 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5748
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5749* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5750 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5752* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5753 Sinhala)
48b22986 5754 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5756* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5759
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5761
5762 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5763 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5764 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5765 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5766 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5767 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5768 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5769
e038616f 5770* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 5772* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5774* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5775 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5776
5777* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5778
5779* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5780 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5781
5782* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5783 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5784
5785* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5786 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5787 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5788
5789* Faster memset for x86-64.
5790 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5791
5792* Faster memcpy on x86.
5793 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5794
5795* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5796 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5798* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5799 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5802
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5803* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5804
5805 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5806 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5807 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5808 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5809 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5810
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5811* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5812 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5813
5814* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5815
5816* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5817 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5818 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5819
5820* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5821 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5822
28919a77 5823* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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5824 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5825
5826* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5827
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5828* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5829 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5830
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5831* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5832 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5833
5834* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5835 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5836
5837* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5838
5839* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5840 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5842* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5843 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5844 yo_NG.
5845
5846+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5847 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5852
5853 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5854 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5855 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5856 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5857 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5858 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5859 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5860 4702, 4858
5861
bce20b9a 5862* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5864* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5865
b21fa963 5866* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5869
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5870* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5871
5872 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5873 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5874 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5875 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5876 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5877 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5878 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5879 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5880 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5881
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5883 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5884 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5886* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5887 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5888
871b9158 5889* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5890
5891* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5893* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5894 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5895 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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5897 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5898
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5900 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5901 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5902 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5903
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5904* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5905 Ulrich Drepper.
5906
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5907* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5908
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5909* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5910 Ulrich Drepper.
5911
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5912* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5913
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5914* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5915 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5918
5919* More overflow detection functions.
5920
5921* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5922 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5924 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5925 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5926 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5927 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5928 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5929 by Masahide Washizawa.
5930
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5931* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5932 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5934* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5935 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5936 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5937 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5939* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5940 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5941
5942* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5943
5944* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5945 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5946 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5947
5948* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5949 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5950
5951* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5952 for compatibility with some other systems.
5953
5954* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5956Version 2.3.6
5957
5958* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5959
5960 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5961 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5962 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5963 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5964 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5965 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5966
5a82c748 5967 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5969* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5970
5971* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5974
5975* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5976
5977 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5978 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5979 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5980 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5981
5a82c748 5982 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5985
5986* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5987 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5988
5989* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5990 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5991 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5992
5993* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5994 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5995
0325dd20 5996* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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5997 efficiently.
5998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5999
6000* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6001 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6002 handling data.
6003
6004* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6005 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6006 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6008* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6009 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6010
6011* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6012 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6013 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6014 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6015
6016* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6017 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6018 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6019 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6020
6021* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6022 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6023 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6024 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6025 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6028
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6030 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6031
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6032* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6033 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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6037
6038* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6039 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6041* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6042 by Roland McGrath.
6043
c5af724c 6044* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6045 and Ulrich Drepper.
6046
6047* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6048 RFC 3484.
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6050Version 2.3.2
6051
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6052* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6053 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6054 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6055 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6056 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6057 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6058 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6059 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6060 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6061
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6062* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6063 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6064 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6065
6066* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6067
6068* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6069 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 6070
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6071* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6072 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6073
52a16e58 6074* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6076* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6077 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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6078
6079* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6080 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6081 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6082 of weak definition in ld.so.
6083
6084* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6085 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6086
6087* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6088 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 6091
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6092* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6093 charsets.
6094
6095* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6096 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 6097
bb0ec5bd 6098* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6099 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6100
6101* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6102 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6103
bb0ec5bd 6104* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6105 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6106 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6107
6108* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6109 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6110
bb0ec5bd 6111* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6112 implementation of regex.
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6113
6114* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6115 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 6116
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6117* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6118 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 6119
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6120* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6121 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6122 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6123
6124* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 6125 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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6126
6127* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6128 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6129 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6130
6131* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6132 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6133
6134* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6135 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6136 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6137
6138* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6139\f
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6140Version 2.2.6
6141
6142* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6143 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6144
6145* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6146 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6148Version 2.2.5
6149
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6150* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6151 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 6152
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6153* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6154 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6155
ad2e4f18 6156* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 6157
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6158* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6159
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6160* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6161 as well.
6162
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6163* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6164 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6165
6166* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
7d0c5823 6167\f
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6168Version 2.2.4
6169
2995f70e 6170* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6171 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6172
6173* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6174 support Unicode 3.1.
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6175
6176* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6177 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6178
69d5f925 6179* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6180
69d5f925 6181* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6182 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6183 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6184
6185* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6186 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6187
6188* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6189 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6190
6191* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 6192\f
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6193Version 2.2.3
6194
1746f2b0 6195* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6196 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6197 in float, double, and long double format.
6198
f128331c 6199* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6200 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6201 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 6202
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6203* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6204 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6205 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6206 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6207
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6208* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6209 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6210 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6211
6212* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6213 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6214
6215* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6216 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6217
6218* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6219 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6220 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6221
6222* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6223 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6224
6225* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6226 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6227
6228* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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6230Version 2.2.2
6231
464d97ec 6232* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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6233 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6234 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6235 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6236 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6237 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6238 other headers.
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6239
6240* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6241 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6242
6243* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6244 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6245 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6246 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6247
6248* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6249 locales. While
6250
6251 locale -a
6252
6253 only lists the names of the supported locales
6254
6255 locale -a --verbose
6256
6257 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6258 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6260Version 2.2.1
6261
6262* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6263 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6264 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6265 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6266 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6267
6268 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6269
6270 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6271
6272 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6273
6274* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6275 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6276 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6277
6278* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6279 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6280
6281* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6282 changed from the default "C" locale.
6283
6284* The usual bug fixes.
d2defdc4 6285\f
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6286Version 2.2
6287
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6288* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6289 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6290 is in progress.
6291
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6292* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6293
793bd4d9 6294* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 6295
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6296 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6297 obviously requires a database library being available.
6298
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6299* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6300
abbffdf9 6301* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 6302
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6303* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6304 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6305
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6306* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6307
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6308* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6309 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6310 and Mark Kettenis.
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6311
6312 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6313 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6314 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6315
a00c3ca9 6316 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6317 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6318
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6319* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6320 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6321 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6322
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6323* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6324 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6325 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6326 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6327
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6328 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6329 structures for the wide character tables.
6330
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6331* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6332
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6333* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6334
6335* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6336
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6337* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6338 and Yutaka Niibe.
6339
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6340* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6341
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6342* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6343
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6344* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6345
6346* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6347
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6348* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6349
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6350* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6351 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6352 implemented for Linux.
6353
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6354* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6355 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6356 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6357 versions.
6358
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6359* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6360 Masahide Washizawa.
6361
8f3f1e09 6362* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6363\f
6364Version 2.1.3
6365
6366* bug fixes
6367
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6368\f
6369Version 2.1.2
6370
6371* bug fixes
6372
28f540f4 6373\f
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6374Version 2.1.1
6375
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6376* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6377
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6378* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6379
407d26b7 6380* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6381
6382* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6383
407d26b7 6384* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6385
407d26b7 6386* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6387
6388* Update timezone data files.
27995311 6389
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6390* lots of charmaps corrections
6391
6392* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6393
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6395Version 2.1
6396
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6397* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6398 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6399 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6400 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6401 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6402 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6403
c84142e8 6404* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6405 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6406
1fb05e3d 6407* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6408 symbol level.
6409
6410* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6411 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6412
cbdee279 6413* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6414
6415* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6416 numbers.
377a515b 6417
cbdee279 6418* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 6419
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6420* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6421 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6422
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6423* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6424 library.
6425
e61abf83 6426* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6427 functions from ISO C 9X.
6428
6429* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6430 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6431
a5a0310d 6432* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 6433
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6434* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6435
6436* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6437
440d13e2 6438* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6439
6440* Optimized string functions have been added.
6441
6442* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6443
6444* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 6445
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6446* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6447 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6448
6449 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6450 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6451
0dee6738 6452 user system wall
48244d09 6453
0dee6738 6454 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6455
0dee6738 6456 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6457
0dee6738 6458 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6460 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6461
6462 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6463
6464 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6466 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6467 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6468 horribly slow.
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6470 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6471 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6472
6473* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6474
6475* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6476
6477* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6478 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6479
6480* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
48244d09 6481
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6482* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6483 Bambrough.
6484
6485* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6486 latest draft standards.
6487
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6488* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6489
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6490* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6491~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 6492addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6493alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6494argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6495argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6496argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6497argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6498argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6499argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6500argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6501argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6502argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6503argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6504authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6505authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6506authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6507backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6508backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6509backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6510cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6511cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6512cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6513cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6514cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6515cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6516capget NEW: kernel
6517capset NEW: kernel
6518carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6519cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6520cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6521casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6522casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6523casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6524casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6525casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6526casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6527catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6528catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6529catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6530catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6531catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6532catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 6533cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6534ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6535ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6536ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6537ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6538ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6539ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6540cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6541cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6542cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6543cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6544cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6545cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6546clearerr_locked REMOVED
6547clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6548clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6549clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6550clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6551clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6552clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6553clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6554conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6555conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6556conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6557cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6558cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6559cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6560cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6561cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6562cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6563creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6564crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6565creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6566creat64 NEW: LFS
6567csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6568csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6569csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6570csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6571csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6572csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6573csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6574csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6575csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6576ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6577ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6578ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6579ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6580ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6581ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6583ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6584endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6586exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6587exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6588exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6589exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6590exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6591fattach NEW: STREAMS
6592fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6593fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6594fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6595fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6596feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6597fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6598fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6599fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6600feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6601feof_locked REMOVED
6602feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6603ferror_locked REMOVED
6604fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6605fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6606fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6607fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6608feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6609fflush_locked REMOVED
6610ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6611ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6612fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6613fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6614fileno_locked REMOVED
6615fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6616fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6617fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6618fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6619fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6620fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6621fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6622fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6623fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6624fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6626fputc_locked REMOVED
6627fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6628fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6629freopen64 NEW: LFS
6630fseeko NEW: Unix98
6631fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6632fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6633fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6634fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6635ftello NEW: Unix98
6636ftello64 NEW: LFS
6637ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6638ftw64 NEW: LFS
6639fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6640gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6641gamma_r REMOVED
6642gammaf_r REMOVED
6643gammal_r REMOVED
6644getchar_locked REMOVED
6645getdate NEW: Unix98
6646getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6647getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6648getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6649getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6652getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6653getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6654getutxent NEW: Unix98
6655getutxid NEW: Unix98
6656getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6658globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6659gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6660gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6661grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6662host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6663iconv NEW: iconv
6664iconv_close NEW: iconv
6665iconv_open NEW: iconv
6666if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6667if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6668if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6669if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6670in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6671in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6672inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6673isastream NEW: STREAMS
6674iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6675key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6676key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6677key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6678key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6679key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6680key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6681key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6682key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6683key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6685llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6686llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6687llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6688llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6689llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6690log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6691log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6692log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6693lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6694lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6695lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6696lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6697lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6698lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6699lseek64 NEW: LFS
6700makecontext NEW: Unix98
6701mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6702mmap64 NEW: LFS
6703moncontrol REMOVED
6704modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6705nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6706nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6707nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6708nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6709nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6710nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6712netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6714nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6715nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6717nftw64 NEW: LFS
6718open64 NEW: LFS
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6721pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6722pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6723pread NEW: Unix98
6724pread64 NEW: LFS
6725printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6726printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6727profil_counter REMOVED
6728pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6729pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6730ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6731ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6732putc_locked REMOVED
6733putchar_locked REMOVED
6734putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6735putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6736putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6737pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6739pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6740readdir64 NEW: LFS
6741readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6742remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6743remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6744remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6745round NEW: ISO C 9x
6746roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6747roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6748rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6749scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6750scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6751scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6752scandir64 NEW: LFS
6753sendfile NEW: kernel
6754setcontext NEW: Unix98
6755setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6756setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6758sigignore NEW: Unix98
6759sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6760sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6761sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6762sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6763sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6764sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6765sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6766sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6767statfs64 NEW: LFS
6768statvfs NEW: Unix98
6769statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6770strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6772strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6773strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
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6775svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6776svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6777swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6778tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6779tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6780tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6781tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6782tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6783tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6784trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6785truncate64 NEW: LFS
6786truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6787truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6788umount2 NEW: kernel
6789unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6790updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6791user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6792utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6793versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6794versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6795waitid NEW: Unix98
6796wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6797wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6798wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6799wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6800wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6801wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6802wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6803wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6804wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6805wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6806write_profiling REMOVED
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6808xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6809xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6810xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6811xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6812xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6813xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6814xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6815xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6816xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6817xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6818xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6819xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6820xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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6824Version 2.0.6
6825
6826* more bug fixes
6827
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6829Version 2.0.5
6830
6831* more bug fixes
6832
6833* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6834
6835* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6836
6837* rewrite of cbrt function
6838
6839* update of timezone data
6840\f
6841Version 2.0.4
6842
6843* more bug fixes
6844\f
6845Version 2.0.3
6846
6847* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6848\f
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6849Version 2.0.2
6850
6851* more bug fixes
6852
6853* add atoll function
6854
6855* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6857* fix math functions
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6859Version 2.0.1
6860
6861* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6862
6863* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6864
6865* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6866 the ELF dynamic loader.
6867
6868* support for parallel builds is improved
6869\f
40a4b79f 6870Version 2.0
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6872* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6873 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6874 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6875
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6876* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6877 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6878 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6879 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6880 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6881 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6882 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6883 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6884 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6885 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6886 files in the ELF format.
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6887
6888* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6889 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6890
6891* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6892 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6893 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6894 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6895 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6896 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6897 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6898 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6899 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6900 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6901 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6903* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6904 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6905 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6906 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6907 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6908
f7eac6eb 6909* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6910 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6911 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6912 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6913 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6914
6915* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6917* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6918 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6919 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6920 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6921 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6922 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6923 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6924 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6925 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6926
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6927* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6928 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6929 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6930
6931* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6932 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6933 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6934
6935* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6936 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6937 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6938 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6939
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6940* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6941 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6942 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6943
6944* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6945 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6946 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6947
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6948* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6949 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6950
f7eac6eb 6951* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6952 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6953 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6954 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6955
6956* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6957 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6958 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6959
71733723 6960* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6961 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6962 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6963 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6964 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6965 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6966 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6967 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6968
6969* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6970 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6971 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6972 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6973 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6974 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6975 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6976
6977* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6978 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6979 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6980 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6981 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6982 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6983
6984* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6985 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6986
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6988 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6989 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6991* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6992
6993* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6994 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6995 their use is discouraged.
6996
6997* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6998 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7000* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7001 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7002
7003* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7004 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7005
7006* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7007 see <dirent.h>.
7008
7009* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7010 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7011 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7012 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7013 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7014
7015* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7016 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7017 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7018 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7019
7020* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7021 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7022
7023* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7024 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7025 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7026 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7027 number generator.
7028
7029* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7030 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7031
7032* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7033 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7034
71733723 7035* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7036 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7037 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7038 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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7040* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7041
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7042* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7043 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7044 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7045
7046* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7047 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 7049* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7050 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7051 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7052 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7053
7054* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7055 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7056 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7057 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7058 programs already written to use it.)
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7059
7060* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7061 constants.
7062
7063* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7064 with 4.4 BSD.
7065
7066* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7067 a given effective group ID.
7068
7069* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7070 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7071 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7072 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7073
7074* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7075 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7076 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7077 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7078 doing the same thing.
7079
7080* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7081 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7082
7083* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7084 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7085
7086* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7087
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7088* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7089 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7090 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7091 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7092 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7093
7094* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7095 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7096
7097* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7098 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7099 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7100 function.
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7101
7102* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7103
7104* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7105 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7106 strings.
7107
7108* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7109 and writing the utmp file.
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7110
7111* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7112 Thorsten Kukuk.
7113
7114* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7115 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7116 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7117
7118* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7119 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7120
7121* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7122 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7123 specification.
7124
7125* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7126 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7127 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7128 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7129
7130* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7131 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7132 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7133
7134* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7135 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7136 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7137 expression matcher.
7138
7139* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7140 functionality.
7141
7142* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7143 by Ulrich Drepper.
7144
7145* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7146
7147* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7148 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7149 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7151Version 1.09
7152
7153* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7154
7155* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7156 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7157
7158* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7159 want to put themselves in the background.
7160
7161* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7162 run without an operating system.
7163
7164* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7165 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7166
7167* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7168 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7169
7170* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7171
7172* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7173 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7174 have YP (aka NIS).
7175
7176* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7177 conventions.
7178
7179* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7180 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7181\f
7182Version 1.08
7183
7184* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7185 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7186 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7187
7188* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7189 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7190
7191* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7192 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7193
7194* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7195
7196* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7197
7198* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7199 compatibility.
7200
7201* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7202 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7203 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7204
7205* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7206
7207* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7208 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7209 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7210
7211* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7212 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7213 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7214 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7215 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7216 on a block).
7217
7218* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7219 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7220 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7221 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7222 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7223 cross-compiler.
7224
7225* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7226 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7227\f
7228Version 1.07
7229
7230* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7231 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7232
7233* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7234 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7235 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7236
7237* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7238 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7239 address of the last character written.
7240
7241* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7242 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7243
7244* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7245 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7246
7247* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7248 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7249 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7250 you dereference this pointer.
7251
7252* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7253 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7254
7255* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7256 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7257 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7258 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7259
7260* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7261 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7262 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7263 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7264\f
7265Version 1.06
7266
7267* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7268 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7269 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7270 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7271 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7272
7273* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7274
7275* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7276
7277* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7278 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7279
7280* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7281 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7282
7283* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7284 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7285
7286* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7287 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7288 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7289 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7290 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7291
7292* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7293 to the error code in `errno'.
7294
7295* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7296 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7297 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7298 malloc'd string.
7299
7300* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7301 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7302 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7303
7304* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7305 uniquely-named temporary file.
7306\f
7307Version 1.05
7308
7309* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7310 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7311 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7312
7313* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7314 characters.
7315
7316* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7317 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7318
7319* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7320\f
7321Version 1.04
7322
7323* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7324 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7325 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7326 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7327
7328* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7329 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7330 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7331
7332* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7333 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7334
7335* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7336 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7337 made itself into a shared library.
7338
7339* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7340 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7341
7342* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7343 with limited length.
7344
7345* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7346
7347* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7348
7349* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7350
7351* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7352 function for traversing a directory tree.
7353
7354* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7355 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7356 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7357 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7358
7359* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7360 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7361
7362* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7363
7364* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7365 things to your strings.
7366
7367* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7368
7369* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7370 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7371 supporting those systems.
7372
7373* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7374 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7375 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7376 configuration files.
7377
7378* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7379 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7380
7381* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7382 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7383 in <strings.h>.)
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7384
7385* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7386 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7387 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7388 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7389 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7390 required storage is not available.
7391
7392* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7393 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7394
7395* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7396 latest files released from Berkeley.
7397\f
7398----------------------------------------------------------------------
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7400
7401 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7402 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7403 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7404 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7405
7406 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7407 of this document, or of portions of it,
7408 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7409 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7410\f
7411Local variables:
7412version-control: never
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