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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
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 2.34
9
10Major new features:
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12* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE or
13 _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
14 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
15 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
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17* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
18 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
19 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
20
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21Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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23* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
24 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
25 instead.
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27* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
28 programs should use the equivalent standard function
29 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
30
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31* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
32 programs should use the equivalent standard function
33 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
34
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35Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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37* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
38 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
39 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
40 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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42Security related changes:
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44 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
45 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
46 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
47 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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49The following bugs are resolved with this release:
50
51 [The release manager will add the list generated by
52 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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55Version 2.33
56
57Major new features:
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59* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
60 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
61 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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63* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
64 to change argv[0] string.
65
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66* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
67 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
68 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
69 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
70 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
71 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
72 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
73 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
74 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
75
76* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
77 information and library search path diagnostics.
78
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79* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
80 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
81 larger than fit in an integer.
82
96203980 83* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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85* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
86 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
87
88 - rv32imac ilp32
89 - rv32imafdc ilp32
90 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
91
92 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
93 2.28.
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95* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
96 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
97 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
98 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
99 fortification.
100
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101Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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103* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
104 mallinfo2 instead.
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106* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
107 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
108 Instead, the default implementation is used.
109
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110* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
111 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
112 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
113 prlimit.
114
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115* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
116 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
117 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
118
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119* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
120 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
121 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
122 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
123 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
124 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
125
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126* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
127 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
128 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
129 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
130 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
131 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
132 loaded.
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134Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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136* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
137 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
138 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
139 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
140 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
141 perform any adjustments.
142
143* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
144 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
145 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
146 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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148* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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150Security related changes:
151
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934c48a0 153 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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154 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
155 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
156 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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158 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
159 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
160 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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162 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
163 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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165 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
166 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
167
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168The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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170 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
171 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
172 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
173 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
174 AT_EACCESS
175 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 176 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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177 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
178 "haswell" platform subdirectory
179 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
180 with GCC
181 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
182 stack-protector=all
183 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
184 cases
185 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
186 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
187 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
188 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
189 changing gnuc version
190 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
191 incorrect
192 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
193 bits
194 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
195 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
196 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
197 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
198 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
199 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
200 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
201 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
202 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
203 too much stack space
204 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
205 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
206 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
207 with optimization.
208 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
209 anymore
210 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
211 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
212 non-FMA4 system
213 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
214 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
215 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
216 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
217 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
218 getaddrinfo
219 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
220 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
221 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
222 fault
223 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
224 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
225 at the end of a memory mapping
226 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
227 by the caller to the kernel
228 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
229 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
230 declarations for __sigsetjmp
231 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
232 monotonic clocks
233 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
234 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
235 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
236 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
237 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
238 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
239 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
240 one element
241 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
242 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
243 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
244 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
245 lazy bound
246 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
247 PI mutexes
248 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
249 not safe
250 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
251 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
252 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
253 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
254 platform
255 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
256 startup code
257 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
258 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
259 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
260 protected
261 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
262 only since 2.31
263 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
264 locked
265 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
266 aligned
267 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
268 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
269 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
270 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
271 detection logic
272 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
273 pclose(3))
274 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
275 setup
276 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
277 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
278 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
279 work
280 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
281 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
282 [27177] dynamic-link:
283 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
284 work
285 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
286 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
287 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
288 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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291Version 2.32
292
293Major new features:
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295* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
296 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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297 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
298
299* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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301* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
302 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
303 Three ABIs are supported:
304
305 - arc-linux-gnu
306 - arc-linux-gnuhf
307 - arceb-linux-gnu
308
4d3a77c7 309 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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310 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
311
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312* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
313 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
314
051be01f 315* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 316 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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317 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
318 this option.
319
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320* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
321 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
322 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
323
4d3a77c7 324* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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325 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
326 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
327
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328* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
329 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
330 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
331 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
332 libpthread.
333
bfe05aa2 334* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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335 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
336 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
337 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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338 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
339 NULL for an invalid signal number.
340
341 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
342 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
343
325081b9 344* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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345 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
346 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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347 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
348 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
349 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
350
351 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
352 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
353
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354* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
355 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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356 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
357 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
358 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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359 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
360 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
361 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
362 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
363 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
364 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
365 BTI compatible.
366
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367Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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369* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
370 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
371 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
372 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
373 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
374 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
375 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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377* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
378 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
379 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
380 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
381 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
382 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
383 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 384 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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385 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
386
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387* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
388 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
389 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
390 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
391 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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393* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
394 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
395 was not declared in any header file.
396
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397* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
398 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
399 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
400 sigaction functions instead.
401
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402* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
403 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
404
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405* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
406 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
407 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
408 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
409 strsignal instead.
410
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411* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
412 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 413 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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414 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
415 strerror or strerror_r instead.
416
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417* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
418 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
419 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
420 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
421
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422* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
423 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
424 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
425 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
426 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
427 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
428 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
429
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430* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
431 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
432 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
433 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
434 flavor of secure RPC.)
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436* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
437 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
438 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
439 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
440 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
441 object, to enable the hooks.
442
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443* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
444 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
445 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
446 LDAP.
447
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448Changes to build and runtime requirements:
449
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450* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
451 long double redirects.
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453Security related changes:
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455 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
456 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
457 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
458
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459 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
460 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
461 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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463 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
464 expanding ~user has been fixed.
465
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466 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
467 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
468 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
469 TALOS-2020-1019).
470
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471The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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473 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
474 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
475 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
476 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
477 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
478 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
479 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
480 filtee has constructor
481 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
482 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
483 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
484 character entities for infinity & pi
485 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
486 segfaults in applications
487 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
488 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
489 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
490 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
491 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
492 function with -mlong-double-64
493 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
494 binding
495 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
496 ld.so.cache
497 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
498 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
499 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
500 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
501 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
502 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
503 linker
504 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
505 dynamically loaded dsos
506 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
507 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
508 access
509 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
510 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
511 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
512 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
513 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
514 stale configuration forever
515 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
516 (CVE-2020-10029)
517 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
518 defaults to PIE
519 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
520 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
521 (CVE-2020-6096)
522 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
523 on 32 bit and old kernel
524 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
525 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
526 Occitan
527 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
528 amount of sigset_t bytes
529 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
530 strings
531 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
532 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
533 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
534 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
535 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
536 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
537 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
538 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
539 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
540 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
541 size_t
542 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
543 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
544 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
545 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
546 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
547 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
548 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
549 cpu=power9
550 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
551 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
552 segfault
553 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
554 exiting detached thread
555 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
556 for x32
557 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
558 ERANGE
559 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
560 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
561 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
562 dependencies in audit mode
563 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
564 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
565 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
566 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
567 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
568 input
569 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
570 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
571 preserve r2
572 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
573 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
574 variables
575 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
576 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
577 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
578 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
579 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
580 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
581 corruption in memset
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585
586Major new features:
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589 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
590 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
591 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
592 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
593 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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595* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
596 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
597 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
598 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
599
69ca4b54 600* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 601 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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603
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605
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606* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
607 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
608 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
609 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
610 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
611 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
612 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
613 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
614
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617* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
618 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
619 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
620 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
621 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
622 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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626 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
627
628* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
629 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
630 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
631 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
632
633* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
634 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
635 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
636 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
637 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
638 made this no longer practical.
639
640 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
641 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
642 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
643 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
644 release.)
645
646 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
647 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
648 with the current time, use the localtime function.
649
650 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
651 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
652 using clock_gettime instead.
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655 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
656 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
657 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
658 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
659
660 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
661 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
662 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
663 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
664
665 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
666 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
667 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
668 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
669 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
670 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
671
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673 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
674 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
675 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
676 offset API.
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678* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
679 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
680 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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682 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
683 configurations.
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685* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
686 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
687 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
688 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
689 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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692 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
693 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
694 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
695 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
696 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
697 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
698 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
699
700 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
701 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
702
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704 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
705 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
706 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
707 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
708 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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711
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714 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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717 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
718 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
719
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722 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
723 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
724
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726 environment variable during program execution after a security
727 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
728 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
729 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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731The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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733 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
734 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
735 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
736 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
737 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
738 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
739 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
740 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
741 linking failure
742 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
743 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
744 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
745 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
746 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
747 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
748 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
749 constructors/destructors is not fatal
750 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
751 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
752 7408-2005
753 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
754 with localedef
755 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
756 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
757 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
758 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
759 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
760 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
761 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
762 utmp entries
763 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
764 ABSOLUTE ABI
765 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
766 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
767 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
768 (stringop-overflow error)
769 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
770 functions other can lead to crashes
771 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
772 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
773 unconditionally
774 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
775 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
776 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
777 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
778 still can fail with an error
779 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
780 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
781 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
782 initialized correctly
783 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
784 -frewrite-includes
785 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
786 value to an unsigned
787 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
788 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
789 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
790 protection
791 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
792 ifunc variant.
793 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
794 al. for Clang++
795 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
796 (Slovenian)
797 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
798 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
799 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
800 with -std=c11
801 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
802 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
803 part
804 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
805 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
806 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
807 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
808 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
809 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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814Major new features:
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817 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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818 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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820* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
821 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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824 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
825 to the callback function.
826
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830 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
831 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
832
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834
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835* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
836 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
837 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
838 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
839 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
840
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842 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
843 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
844 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
845 link time reference, is gone.
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848 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
849 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
850 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
851 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
852 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
853 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
854 the clock choice at initialization time).
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857 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
858 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
859
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863 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
864 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
865 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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867 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
868 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
869 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
870 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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873 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
874 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
875 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
876 since glibc 2.17.
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878* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
879 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
880
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881* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
882 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
883
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884* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
885 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
886
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887* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
888 BIND_NOW flag.
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891 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
892 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
893
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894* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
895 header have been removed.
896
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897* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
898 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
899 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
900 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
901
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905
906 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
907 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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912 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
913 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
914 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
915 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
916 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
917 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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920 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
921 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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926 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
927 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
928 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
929 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
930 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
931 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
932 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
933 invalid input drops valid char
934 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
935 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
936 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
937 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
938 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
939 malloc.h.
940 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
941 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
942 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
943 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
944 functions
945 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
946 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
947 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
948 for long double = double
949 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
950 long double = double
951 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
952 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
953 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
954 long timeouts
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957 checking for NULL.
958 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
959 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
960 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
961 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
962 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
963 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
964 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
965 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
966 not the default "nor"
967 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
968 false positives, change to modern flexible array
969 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
970 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
971 compiler barriers.
972 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
973 unnecessary librt dependencies
974 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
975 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
976 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
977 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
978 unsorted chunk
979 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
980 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
981 to R_SPARC_H44
982 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
983 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
984 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
985 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
986 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
987 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
988 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
989 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
990 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
991 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
992 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
993 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
994 was not used
995 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
996 tests
997 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
998 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
999 time_t changes
1000 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1001 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1002 kernels and break testing
1003 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1004 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1005 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1006 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1007 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1008 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1009 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1010 -O3 -march=skylake
1011 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1012 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1013 crash
1014 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1015 linked glibc
1016 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1017 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1018 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1019 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1020 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1021 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1022 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1023 always implemented in the same library
1024 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1025 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1026 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
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1035 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1037* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1038 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1039 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1040 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1041 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1042 configured location.
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1047 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1050 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1051 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1052 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1053 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1054 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1055 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1056 process actually does not use HTM).
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1059 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1060 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1061 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1062 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1063 of the same name.
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1066 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1067 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1071* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1072 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1073 supported:
1074 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1075 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1078 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1079 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1080 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1081 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1082 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1083 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1086 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1087 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1092 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1095 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1096 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1097 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1100 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1101 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1102 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1103 structures.
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1106 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1107 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1108 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1109 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1110 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1111
1112 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1113 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1114 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1115 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1116 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1117
1118 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1119 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1120 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1127 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1128
1129 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1130 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1134 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1135 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1136 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1139 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1140 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1141 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1142 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1144 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1145 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1146 or command injection issues in applications.
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1150 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1151 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1152 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1153 thousands
1154 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1155 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1156 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1157 --param options)
1158 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1159 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1160 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1161 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1162 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1163 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1164 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1165 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1166 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1167 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1168 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1169 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1170 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1171 pointer argument is non-NULL
1172 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1173 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1174 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1175 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1176 multithreads call popen
1177 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1178 and pthread_create fails.
1179 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1180 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1181 constructor
1182 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1183 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1184 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1185 source tree
1186 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1187 float
1188 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1189 one error
1190 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1191 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1192 linker
1193 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1194 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1195 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1196 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1197 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1198 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1199 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1200 filesystems
1201 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1202 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1203 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1204 functions
1205 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1206 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1207 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1208 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1209 have wrong type
1210 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1211 wrong type
1212 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1213 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1214 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1215 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1216 threads
1217 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1218 start.S
1219 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1220 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1221 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1222 powerpc64le
1223 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1224 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1225 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1226 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1227 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1228 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1229 strftime
1230 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1231 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1232 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1233 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1234 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1235 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1236 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1237 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1238 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1239 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1240 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1241 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1242 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1243 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1244 tcache size
1245 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1246 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1247 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1248 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1249 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1250 (CVE-2018-19591)
1251 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1252 nearest rounding mode
1253 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1254 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1255 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1256 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1257 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1258 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1259 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1260 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1261 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1262 error
1263 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1264 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1265 using GCC 8
1266 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1267 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1268 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1269 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1270 ppc64le
1271 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1272 expected result
1273 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1274 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1275 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1276 sigaltstack
1277 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1278 answers will be rejected)
1279 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1284Major new features:
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1287 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1288 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1289 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1290 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1291 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1292 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1293 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1294 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1295 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1296 archive or binary locales.
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1299 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1300 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1301 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1302 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1303 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1304 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1305 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1307 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1308 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1309 validated for i686.
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1312 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1313 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1314 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1315 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1316 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1319 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1320 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1323 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1324
1325 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1326 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1329 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1332 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1334 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1335 fMxdivfNx functions.
1336
e607a352 1337* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1338 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1339 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1341 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1343* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1344 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1350 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1351 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1352 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1353 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1354 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1355 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1356 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1359 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1360 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1361 the fstatat64 function.
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1363* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1364 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1365 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1366 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1367 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1368 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1369 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1370 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1371 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1374 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1375 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1376 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1377 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1378 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1379 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1380 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1381 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1382 results in a load failure now.
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1385 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1386 <threads.h>:
1387
1388 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1389 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1390
1391 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1392 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1393
1394 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1395
1396 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1397 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1398
1399 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1400
1401 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1402
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1405* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1406 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1407 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1408
1409* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1410 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1411 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1412 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1413 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1414 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1415
1416* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1417 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1418 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1419 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1420 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1421 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1422 (Bug #1190.)
1423
1424* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1425 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1426 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1427 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1428 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1429 further explanation.
1430
1431 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1432 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1433 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1435* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1436
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1437* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1438 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1439 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1441* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1442 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1443 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1444 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1446* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1447 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1448 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1449 for this function instead.
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1451* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1452 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1453 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1454
1455* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1456 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1457 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1458 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1460* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1461 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1462 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1463 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1464 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1466* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1467 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1468 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1469 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1470 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1471 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1472 such as libgcrypt.
1473
1474* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1475 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1476 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1477 enabled.
1478
1479* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1480 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1481 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1482
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1484 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1485 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1486 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1487 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1488 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1489
1490 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1491 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1492 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1493 behavior in a future release.
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1496
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1499Security related changes:
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1501 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1502 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1503 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1504 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1506 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1507 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1508
1509 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1510 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1511 Izbyshev.
1512
1513 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1514 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1515 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1519 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1520 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1521 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1522 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1523 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1524 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1525 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1526 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1527 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1528 14651
1529 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1530 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1531 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1532 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1533 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1534 conversion is given
1535 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1536 date
1537 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1538 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1539 scope with -O1 and higher
1540 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1541 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1542 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1543 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1544 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1545 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1546 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1547 horrible machine code)
1548 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1549 last constant.
1550 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1551 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1552 symbols
1553 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1554 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1555 defined
1556 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1557 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1558 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1559 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1560 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1561 fpscr.c'
1562 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1563 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1564 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1565 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1566 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1567 the base address
1568 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1569 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1570 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1571 open_verify
1572 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1573 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1574 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1575 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1576 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1577 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1578 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1579 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1580 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1581 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1582 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1583 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1584 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1585 dlopen
1586 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1587 AT_SECURE=1
1588 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1589 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1590 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1591 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1592 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1593 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1594 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1595 for Spanish with CLDR
1596 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1597 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1598 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1599 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1600 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1601 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1602 es_BO
1603 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1604 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1605 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1606 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1607 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1608 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1609 dlopen failures
1610 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1611 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1612 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1613 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1614 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1615 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1616 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1617 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1618 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1619 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1620 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1621 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1622 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1623 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1624 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1625 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1626 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1627 makecontext
1628 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1629 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1630 required
1631 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1632 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1633 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1634 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1635 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1636 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1637 disabled
1638 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1639 failure
1640 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1641 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1642 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1643 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1644 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1645 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1646 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1647 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1648 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1649 and libc build with -Os)
1650 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1651 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1652 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1653 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1654 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1655 that changes /etc/passwd
1656 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1657 (CVE-2018-11237)
1658 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1659 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1660 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1661 posix/regcomp.c
1662 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1663 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1664 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1665 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1666 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1667 AT_SECURE
1668 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1669 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1670 parser.c
1671 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1672 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1673 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1674 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1675 directed rounding
1676 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1677 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1678 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1679 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1680 lookup
1681 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1682 interposition
1683 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1684 DSO boundaries.
1685 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1686 <linux/time.h>
1687 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1688 checking
1689 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1690 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1691 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1692 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1693 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1694 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1695 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1696 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1697 processors
1698 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1701Version 2.27
1702
1703Major new features:
1704
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1706 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1708 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1709 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1710 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1711 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1712 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1713 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 1715* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1717 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1720
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1723* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1724 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1725 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1726 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1727 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1728 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1729 from a security and performance perspective.
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1731* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1732 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1733 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1734 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1735
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1738 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1739 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1740 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1741
a23aa5b7 1742* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1745 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1746 _Float128.
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1749 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1750 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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1755 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1756 pkey_get.
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1758* The copy_file_range function was added.
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1760* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1761
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1762* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1763 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1764 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1767 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1768 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1769 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1770 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1771 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1772 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1773
1774 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1775 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1776 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1777 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1778 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1779 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1780 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1781
1782 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1783 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1785 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1786 respectively.
1787
1788 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1789 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1790 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1791 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1793 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1794 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1795 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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1798 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1799 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1802 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1803 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1804
1805 - rv64imac lp64
1806 - rv64imafdc lp64
1807 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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1812 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1815 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1816 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1817 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1818 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1819 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1820 fix this.
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1823 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1824 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
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1827 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1828 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1829 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1830 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1831 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1832 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1833 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1834 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1835 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1836 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1837 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1838 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1839 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1840 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1841 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1842 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1843 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1844 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1845 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1846 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1847 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1848 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1849 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1850 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1851 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1852
60e2846e
DL
1853* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1854 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 1855
813378e9
JM
1856* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1857 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1858 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1859 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1860 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1861 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1862 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1863
5a80d39d
JM
1864* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1865 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1866 exp10l for these functions instead.
1867
4fa9b3bf
JM
1868* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1869 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1870 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1871
644d3857
JM
1872* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1873 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1874 ignored.
1875
8df5d347
JM
1876* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1877 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1878 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1879 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1880
c0a25aa9
FW
1881* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1882 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1883
34eb4157
FW
1884* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1885 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1886
754034c4
JM
1887* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1888 programs.
1889
ed95f611
AZ
1890* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1891
48a8f832
ZW
1892* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1893 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1894 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1895 instead.
1896
1897 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1898 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1899 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1900 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1901 use, but predates the bits convention.
1902
00cdcf5a
SP
1903Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1904
1faaf703
JB
1905* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1906 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1907
1908Security related changes:
1909
403143e1
FW
1910 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1911 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1912 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1913 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1914 script.)
00cdcf5a 1915
822f523b
FW
1916 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1917 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1918 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1919 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1920
914c9994
FW
1921 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1922 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1923 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1924 of service.
1925
15e84c63
AJ
1926 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1927 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1928 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1929
37ac8e63
FW
1930 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1931 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1932 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1933 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1934
8a0b17e4
FW
1935 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1936 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1937 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1938 Qualys.
1939
3ff3dfa5
FW
1940 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1941 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1942 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1943 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1944 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1945
3e3c904d
AJ
1946 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1947 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1948 current directory.
1949
52a713fd
DL
1950 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1951 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1952 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1953
4590634f
FW
1954 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1955 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1956 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1957
71aa429b
FW
1958 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1959 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1960 small, instead of NULL.
1961
00cdcf5a
SP
1962The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1963
242cbc90
DL
1964 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1965 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1966 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1967 locale
1968 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1969 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1970 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1971 cases
1972 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1973 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1974 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1975 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1976 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1977 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1978 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1979 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1980 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1981 "Bangla"
1982 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1983 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1984 width Latin characters
1985 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1986 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1987 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1988 letters
1989 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1990 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1991 (CVE-2009-5064)
1992 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1993 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1994 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1995 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1996 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1997 if malloc succeeded
1998 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1999 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2000 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2001 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2002 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2003 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2004 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2005 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2006 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2007 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2008 U+309A
2009 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2010 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2011 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2012 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2013 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2014 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2015 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2016 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2017 for Nicaragua
2018 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2019 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2020 are not found.
2021 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2022 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2023 access
2024 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2025 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2026 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2027 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2028 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2029 __regcall calling convention
2030 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2031 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2032 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2033 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2034 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2035 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2036 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2037 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2038 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2039 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2040 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2041 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2042 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2043 locale
2044 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2045 protector=all
2046 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2047 wcwidth
2048 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2049 consistency check failures
2050 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2051 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2052 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2053 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2054 PIE
2055 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2056 locales
2057 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2058 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2059 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2060 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2061 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2062 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2063 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2064 on memory allocation failure
2065 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2066 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2067 the suspect)
2068 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2069 default (i386)
2070 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2071 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2072 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2073 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2074 instead of EAI_NODATA
2075 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2076 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2077 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2078 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2079 implementation
2080 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2081 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2082 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2083 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2084 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2085 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2086 allocation in syscall loops)
2087 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2088 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2089 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2090 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2091 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2092 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2093 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2094 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2095 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2096 occur with -O3
2097 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2098 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2099 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2100 amounts)
2101 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2102 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2103 niu_NZ
2104 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2105 checks
2106 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2107 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2108 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2109 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2110 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2111 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2112 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2113 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2114 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2115 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2116 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2117 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2118 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2119 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2120 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2121 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2122 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2123 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2124 parsing after OOM
2125 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2126 object
2127 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2128 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2129 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2130 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2131 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2132 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2133 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2134 ppc64le
2135 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2136 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2137 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2138 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2139 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2140 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2141 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2142 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2143 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2144 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2145 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2146 math_force_eval
2147 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2148 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2149 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2150 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2151 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2152 the svid compat wrapper
2153 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2154 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2155 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2156 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2157 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2158 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2159 --verbose.
2160 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2161 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2162 to 2.26
2163 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2164 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2165 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2166 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2167 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2168 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2169 (CVE-2017-15804)
2170 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2171 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2172 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2173 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2174 failure."
2175 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2176 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2177 -m32
2178 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2179 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2180 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2181 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2182 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2183 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2184 inside the ASCII printable range
2185 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2186 -mlong-double-64
2187 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2188 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2189 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2190 Internet
2191 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2192 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2193 backslash
2194 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2195 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2196 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2197 heaps in an arena
2198 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2199 networking interface
2200 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2201 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2202 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2203 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2204 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2205 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2206 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2207 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2208 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2209 order
2210 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2211 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2212 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2213 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2214 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2215 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2216 same as for Croatian
2217 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2218 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2219 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2220 for initial thread"
2221 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2222 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2223 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2224 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2225 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2226 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2227 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2228 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2229 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2230 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2231 modified in case of success
2232 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2233 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2234 success
2235 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2236 stack-protector=all
2237 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2238 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2239 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2240 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2241 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2242 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2243 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2244 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2245 adding it on top
2246 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2247 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2248 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2249 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2250 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2251 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2252 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2253 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2254 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2255 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2256 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2257 elision and tunables
2258 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2259 "invalid" exception
2260 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2261 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2262 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2263 exception
2264 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2265 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2266 power4
2267 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2268 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2269 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2270 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2271 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2272 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2273 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2274 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2275 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2278Version 2.26
2279
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2280Major new features:
2281
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2282* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2283 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2284 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2285 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2286 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2287 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2288 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2289
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2290* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2291 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2292 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2293 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2294 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2295 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2296 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2298* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2299 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2300 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2301
2b2ccd0c 2302* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2304 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2305 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2306 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2308 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2309 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2310 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2311 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2312 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2314 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2315 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2316 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2318* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2319 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2321* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2322 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2323 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2324 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2326* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2327 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2328 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2329 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2331* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2332 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2333 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2334 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2336* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2337 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2338 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2339
2b2ccd0c 2340* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2341 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2342 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2343 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2344
2b2ccd0c 2345 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2346 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2347 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2348 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2349 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2350
2351 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2352 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2353 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2354 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2355 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2356 interfaces should be used instead.
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2358Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2359
2360* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2361 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2362 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2363 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2364 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2365 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2366 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2367 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2368
2369* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2370 removed.
2371
2372* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2373 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2374 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2375 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2376
2377* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2378 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2379 default.
2380
2381 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2382 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2383 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2384 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2385 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2386
2387 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2388 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2389 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2390 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2391
2392* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2393 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2394 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2395 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2396
2397* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2398 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2400* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2401 exported by accident.
2402
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2403* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2404 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2405 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2406
2407* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2408 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2409 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2410 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2411
2412* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2413
2414* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2415
2416* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2417 free instead.
2418
2419* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2420 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2421
2422* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2423 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2424
2425* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2426 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2427 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2428 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2429 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2430 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2431 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2432 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2433
2434* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2435 synced with the kernel:
2436
2437 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2438 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2439
2440 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2441 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2442 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2443
2444 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2445 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2446
2447Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2448
2449* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2450 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2451 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2452
7e368000 2453* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2455* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2456 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2457
2458 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2459 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2460 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2461 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2462 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2465
e14a2772 2466* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2467 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2468
2469* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2470 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2471
2472* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2473 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2474 (CVE-2010-3192).
2475
2476* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2477 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2479The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2480
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2481 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2482 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2483 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2484 fields
2485 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2486 (CVE-2010-3192)
2487 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2488 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2489 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2490 ld.bfd is available
2491 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2492 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2493 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2494 x86 and other generic code
2495 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2496 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2497 incorrect
2498 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2499 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2500 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2501 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2502 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2503 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2504 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2505 resolver
2506 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2507 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2508 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2509 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2510 chillu characters
2511 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2512 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2513 receiving data
2514 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2515 whitespace
2516 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2517 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2518 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2519 for Peru
2520 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2521 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2522 failures consistently
2523 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2524 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2525 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2526 frame-pointer on i386
2527 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2528 register
2529 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2530 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2531 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2532 generic c code is used
2533 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2534 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2535 around 4000
2536 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2537 (CVE-2017-12133)
2538 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2539 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2540 with -lieee
2541 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2542 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2543 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2544 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2545 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2546 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2547 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2548 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2549 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2550 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2551 remove()
2552 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2553 checked for errors.
2554 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2555 new posix_spawn implementation
2556 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2557 leads to lower CPU frequency
2558 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2559 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2560 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2561 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2562 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2563 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2564 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2565 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2566 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2567 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2568 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2569 not support gethostbyname4_r
2570 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2571 switching
2572 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2573 arenas
2574 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2575 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2576 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2577 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2578 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2579 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2580 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2581 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2582 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2583 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2584 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2585 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2586 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2587 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2588 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2589 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2590 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2591 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2592 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2593 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2594 retry value
2595 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2596 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2597 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2598 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2599 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2600 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2601 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2602 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2603 [21537] libc:
2604 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2605 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2606 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2607 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2608 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2609 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2610 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2611 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2612 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2613 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2614 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2615 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2616 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2617 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2618 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2619 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2620 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2621 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2622 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2623 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2624 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2625 issue on x86-64
2626 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2627 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2628 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2629 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2630 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2631 construction
2632 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2633 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2634 between_2_3
2635 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2636 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2637 conditions
2638 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2639 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2640 Hindi Locale
2641 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2642 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2643 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2644 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2645 locale
2646 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2647 leading to relocation crash
2648 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2649 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2650 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2651 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2652 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2653 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2654 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2655 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2656 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2657 locale
2658 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2659 locale
2660 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2661 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2662 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2663 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2664 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2665 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2666 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2667 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2668 strings
2669 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2670 protector=all
2671 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2672 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2673 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2674 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2675 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2676 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2677 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2678 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2679 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2680 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2681 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2682 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2683 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2684 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2685 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2686 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2687 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2688 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2689 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2690 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2691 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2692 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2693 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2694 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2695 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2696 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2697 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2698 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2699 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2700 with unicode 9.0
2701 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2702 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2703 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2704 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2705 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 2706
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2708Version 2.25
2709
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2710* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2711 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2712 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2713 Library.
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2715* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2716 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2717 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2718 the GNU C Library.
2719
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2720* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2721 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2722 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2723 the GNU C Library.
2724
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2725* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2726 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2727 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2728 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2729 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2730 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2731 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2732 will not.
2733
2734 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2735 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2736 many years.
2737
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2738* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2739 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2740 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2741
2742 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2743 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2744 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2745 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2746 problem.
2747
ec94343f 2748* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2749 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2750 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2752* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2753 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2754 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2755 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2756 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2757 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2758 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2759 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2760 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2761 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2762 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2763 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2764
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2765* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2766
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2767 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2768
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2769 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2770 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2771 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2772
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2773 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2774 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2775
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2776 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2777 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2778
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2779 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2780
29cb9293 2781 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2782
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2783 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2784 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2785
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2786 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2787
eb3c12c7 2788 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2789 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2790
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2791* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2792 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2793
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2794* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2795 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2796 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2797
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2798* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2799 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2800 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2801 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2802 effects of the memory clear).
2803
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2804* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2805 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2806 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2807 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2808
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2809* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2810 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2811 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2812 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2813 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2814 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2815
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2816* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2817 have been added.
2818
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2819* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2820 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2821 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2822 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2823 as large as several megabytes.
2824
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2825* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2826 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2827 been removed.
2828
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2829* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2830 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2831 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2832 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2833 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2834 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2835 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2836
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2837* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2838 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2839 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2840 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2841
099191b1 2842* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2843 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2844 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2845 Internet.
2846
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2847* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2848 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2849 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2850
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2851* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2852 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2853 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2854 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2855
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2856* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2857 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2858 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2859 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2860 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2861
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2862* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2863 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2864 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2865 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2866 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2867
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2868* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2869 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2870 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2871 did not reflect that.
2872
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2873* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2874 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2875 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2876 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2877 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2878 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2879 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2880 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2881
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2882* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2883 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2884 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2885 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2886
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2887* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2888 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2889 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2890 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2891
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2892* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2893 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2894 guarantees.
2895
2896* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2897 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2898 make state changes.
2899
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2900Security related changes:
2901
fc82b0a2 2902* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2903 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2904 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2905 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2906 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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2908* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2909 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2910 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2911 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2912 (CVE-2015-5180)
2913
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2914The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2915
fdb724f9 2916 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
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2917 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2918 protector-all
2919 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2920 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2921 before it started waiting
2922 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2923 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2924 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2925 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2926 wrong type
2927 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2928 library linked with pthread
2929 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2930 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2931 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2932 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2933 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2934 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2935 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2936 when it shouldnt
2937 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2938 not
2939 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2940 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2941 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2942 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2943 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2944 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2945 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2946 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2947 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2948 termination
2949 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2950 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2951 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2952 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2953 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2954 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2955 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2956 causes a segmentation fault
2957 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2958 linking
2959 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2960 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2961 uninitialized GOT
2962 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2963 versions
2964 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2965 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2966 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2967 is always true.
2968 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2969 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2970 modes
2971 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2972 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2973 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2974 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2975 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2976 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2977 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2978 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2979 libpthread.a
2980 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2981 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2982 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2983 _res_hconf
2984 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2985 information.
2986 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2987 penalty
2988 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2989 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2990 cause transition penalty
2991 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2992 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2993 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2994 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2995 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2996 mcount.oS)
2997 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2998 Checking
2999 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3000 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3001 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3002 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3003 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3004 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3005 multi-arch
3006 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3007 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3008 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3009 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3010 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3011 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3012 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3013 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3014 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3015 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3016 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3017 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3018 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3019 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3020 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3021 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3022 glibc
3023 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3024 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3025 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3026 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3027 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3028 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3029 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3030 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3031 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3032 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3033 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3034 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3035 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3036 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3037 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3038 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3039 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3040 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3041 RES_USE_INET6
3042 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3043 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3044 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3045 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3046 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3047 wrong condition
3048 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3049 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3050 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3051 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3052 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3053 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3054 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3055 clang
3056 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3057 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3058 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3059 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3060 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3062Version 2.24
3063
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3064* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3065 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3066 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3067 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3068 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3069 architectures.
3070
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3071* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3072 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3073 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3074
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3075* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3076 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3077
b49ab5f4
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3078* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3079 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3080 instead of “union wait”.
3081
ced8f893
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3082* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3083 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3084 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3085 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3086 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3087 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3088 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3089
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3090* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3091 API.
3092
b7a9b7b0
MF
3093* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3094 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3095 drop it.
6a54bcda 3096
41a359e2
RS
3097* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3098 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3099 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3100 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3101 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3102 extensions.
3103
11fca961
AZ
3104Security related changes:
3105
f5b3338d
FW
3106* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3107 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3108 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3109
4ab2ab03
FW
3110* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3111 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3112 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3113 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3114
5171f307
FW
3115* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3116 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3117 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3118
bc779a1a
FW
3119* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3120 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3121 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3122
fab38231
FW
3123* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3124 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3125 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3126 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3127
11fca961
AZ
3128The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3129
3c4f81ec
CD
3130 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3131 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3132 of MS-DOS.
3133 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3134 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3135 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3136 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3137 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3138 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3139 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3140 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3141 CLDR data
3142 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3143 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3144 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3145 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3146 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3147 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3148 romanisation
3149 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3150 and +/-
3151 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3152 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3153 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3154 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3155 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3156 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3157 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3158 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3159 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3160 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3161 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3162 all locales
3163 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3164 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3165 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3166 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3167 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3168 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3169 execute
3170 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3171 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3172 -Wsystem-headers
3173 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3174 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3175 Romanian locale data
3176 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3177 symbol
3178 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3179 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3180 language
3181 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3182 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3183 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3184 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3185 machine
3186 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3187 description
3188 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3189 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3190 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3191 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3192 when using RTLD_NEXT
3193 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3194 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3195 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3196 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3197 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3198 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3199 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3200 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3201 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3202 Excavator core
3203 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3204 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3205 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3206 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3207 double range
3208 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3209 part zero incorrect
3210 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3211 equality tests
3212 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3213 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3214 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3215 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3216 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3217 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3218 glibc-2.22
3219 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3220 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3221 'tst-numeric.c'
3222 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3223 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3224 low part
3225 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3226 result
3227 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3228 unaligned stack
3229 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3230 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3231 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3232 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3233 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3234 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3235 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3236 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3237 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3238 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3239 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3240 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3241 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3242 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3243 modes
3244 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3245 server addresses
3246 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3247 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3248 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3249 response to getaddrinfo
3250 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3251 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3252 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3253 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3254 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3255 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3256 sometimes incorrect
3257 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3258 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3259 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3260 record types
3261 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3262 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3263 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3264 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3265 (CVE-2016-3075)
3266 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3267 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3268 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3269 resolving symbols
3270 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3271 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3272 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3273 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3274 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3275 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3276 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3277 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3278 gethosts
3279 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3280 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3281 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3282 (CVE-2016-3706)
3283 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3284 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3285 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3286 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3287 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3288 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3289 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3290 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3291 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3292 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3293 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3294 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3295 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3296 executable
3297 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3298 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3299 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3300 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3301 XPG3
3302 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3303 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3304 (CVE-2016-4429)
3305 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3306 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3307 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3308 AS not supporting AVX512
3309 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3310 sNaN argument
3311 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3312 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3313 argument
3314 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3315 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3316 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3317 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3318 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3319 eax=0x80000001
3320 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3321 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3322 subnormals
3323 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3324 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3325 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3326 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3327 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3328 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3329 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3330 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3331 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3332 input
3333 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3334 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3335 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3336 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3337 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3338 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3339 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3340 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3341 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3342 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3343 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3344 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3345 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3346 double rounding
3347 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3348 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3349 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3350 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3351 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3352 (Only arm/linux)
3353 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3354 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3355 fallbacks
3356 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3357 "invalid" exceptions
3358 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3359 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3360 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3361 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3362 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3363 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3364 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3365 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3366 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3367\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3368Version 2.23
3369
23256f5e
MF
3370* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3371 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3372 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3373 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3374 89, 16061, and 18568.
3375
2359035a
FW
3376* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3377 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3378 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3379 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3380 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3381 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3382 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3383
8b7b7f75
MW
3384* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3385 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3386 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3387
2eecc8af
FW
3388* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3389 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3390 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3391 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3392 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3393 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3394 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3395
a62719ba
FW
3396* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3397 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3398 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3399 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3400 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3401 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3402 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3403 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3404
bc148ca1
MF
3405* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3406 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3407 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3408 independent of the GNU C Library.
3409
1c70b6f1
ZW
3410* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3411 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3412
eed3e1eb
JM
3413* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3414 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3415 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3416 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3417 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3418 Linux kernel.
3419
1efad39b
SL
3420* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3421 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3422
d709042a
JM
3423* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3424 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3425 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3426 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3427 defining their own copy.
3428
b08b4218
JM
3429* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3430 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3431 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3432
8f5e8b01
JM
3433Security related changes:
3434
6400ae6e
FW
3435* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3436 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3437
3438* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3439 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3440 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3441 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3442 (CVE-2015-8777)
3443
3444* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3445 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3446
3447* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3448 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3449
8f5e8b01
JM
3450* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3451 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3452 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3453
e9db92d3
CD
3454* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3455 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3456 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3457 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3458 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3459 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3460 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3461 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3462 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3463 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3464 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3465 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3466 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3467
ad372e29 3468The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3469
ad372e29
AZ
3470 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3471 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3472 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3473 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3474 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3475 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3476 use `mkstemp'
3477 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3478 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3479 overflow/underflow errors
3480 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3481 overflow/underflow
3482 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3483 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3484 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3485 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3486 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3487 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3488 are not contiguous
3489 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3490 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3491 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3492 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3493 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3494 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3495 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3496 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3497 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3498 all exceptions
3499 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3500 arguments
3501 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3502 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3503 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3504 should include
3505 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3506 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3507 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3508 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3509 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3510 GNU/Linux
3511 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3512 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3513 arguments
3514 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3515 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3516 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3517 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3518 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3519 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3520 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3521 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3522 rounding results
3523 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3524 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3525 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3526 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3527 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3528 fails
3529 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3530 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3531 block boundary
3532 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3533 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3534 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3535 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3536 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3537 4.7?
3538 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3539 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3540 (related to lock elision)
3541 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3542 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3543 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3544 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3545 (CVE-2015-8779)
3546 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3547 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3548 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3549 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3550 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3551 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3552 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3553 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3554 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3555 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3556 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3557 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3558 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3559 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3560 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3561 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3562 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3563 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3564 contains a vector instruction exception.
3565 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3566 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3567 locales
3568 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3569 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3570 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3571 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3572 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3573 missing break ?
3574 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3575 32bit processes
3576 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3577 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3578 infinity
3579 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3580 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3581 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3582 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3583 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3584 be forced unloaded
3585 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3586 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3587 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3588 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3589 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3590 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3591 statically too large
3592 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3593 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3594 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3595 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3596 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3597 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3598 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3599 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3600 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3601 FUTEX_SHARED
3602 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3603 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3604 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3605 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3606 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3607 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3608 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3609 opendir()
3610 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3611 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3612 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3613 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3614 signgam
3615 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3616 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3617 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3618 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3619 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3620 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3621 dependencies
3622 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3623 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3624 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3625 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3626 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3627 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3628 (CVE-2015-8776)
3629 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3630 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3631 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3632 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3633 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3634 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3635 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3636 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3637 contention
3638 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3639 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3640 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3641 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3642 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3643 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3644 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3645 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3646 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3647 rounding modes
3648 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3649 ILP32
3650 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3651 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3652 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3653 threshold
3654 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3655 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3656 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3657 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3658 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3659 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3660 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3661 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3662 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3663 pthread_setaffinity_np
3664 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3665 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3666 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3667 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3668 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3669 prelink
3670 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3671 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3672 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3673 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3674 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3675 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3676 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3677 bits/mathcalls.h
3678 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3679 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3680 for C99-based standards
3681 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3682 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3683 math-only
3684 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3685 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3686 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3687 disabled
3688 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3689 "inexact" exceptions
3690 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3691 arguments
3692 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3693 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3694 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3695 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3696 rules
3697 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3698 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3699 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3700 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3701 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3702 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3703 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3704 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3705 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3706 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3707 from 32bit
3708 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3709 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3710 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3711 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3712 subnormals
3713 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3714 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3715 error on 32-bit architectures
3716 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3717 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3718 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3719 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3720 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3721 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3722 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3723 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3724 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3725 -Os
3726 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3727 CPU's.
3728 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3729 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3730 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3731 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3732 architectures
3733 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3734\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3735Version 2.22
3736
3737* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3738
3df5cd98 3739 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3740 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3741 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3742 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3743 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3744 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3745 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3746 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3747 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3748 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3749 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3750 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3751 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3752 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3753 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3754 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3755 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3756 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3757 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3758 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3759
f7fba805
SL
3760* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3761 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3762
2959eda9
AS
3763* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3764 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3765 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3766 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3767 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3768 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3769
42261ad7
FW
3770* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3771 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3772 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3773 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3774 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3775
afcd9480
AM
3776* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3777 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3778 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3779
4a4839c9
AO
3780* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3781 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3782 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3783 17998.
3784
b13b96ca
AS
3785* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3786 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3787 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3788
3789* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3790 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3791 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3792 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3793 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3794 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3795 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3796 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3797
3798* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3799 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3800 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3801 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3802
3803* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3804 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3805 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3806
3807* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3808 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3809
3810* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3811 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3812 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3813
a03ba363 3814 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3815 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3816 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3817\f
58b930ae
SP
3818Version 2.21
3819
3820* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3821
042e1521 3822 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3823 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3824 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3825 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3826 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3827 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3828 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3829 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3830 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3831 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3832 17892.
3833
46d54873
FW
3834* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3835 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3836 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3837 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3838 intended.
042e1521
CD
3839
3840* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3841 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3842 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3843 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3844 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3845 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3846
522e6ee3
CLT
3847* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3848
d3b00f46
AZ
3849* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3850 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3851 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3852
8d2c0a59
AZ
3853* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3854 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3855 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3856 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3857 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3858 effects being visible outside transactions.
3859
dc400d7b
RE
3860* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3861 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3862
0f9dfe04
L
3863* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3864
a39208bd
CD
3865* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3866 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3867 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3868 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3869 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3870
a5357b7c
JL
3871* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3872 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3873
e54db0ea
AM
3874* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3875 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3876 format.
11e3417a 3877
4863355a
JM
3878* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3879 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3880 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3881
a4ecc9eb
JM
3882* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3883 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3884
0d560bbf 3885* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3886
3887* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3888 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3889 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3890 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3891
3892* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3893 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3894
3895* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3896 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3897 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3898 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3899 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3900 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3901 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3902 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3903 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3904 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3905 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3906 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3907 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3908
3909 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3910 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3911 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3912 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3913 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3914\f
d5b396c1
AM
3915Version 2.20
3916
3917* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3918
6a9350c8
JM
3919 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3920 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3921 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3922 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3923 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3924 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3925 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3926 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3927 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3928 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3929 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3930 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3931 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3932 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3933 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3934
95ee7fb1
SL
3935* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3936 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3937 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3938 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3939 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3940 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3941 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3942 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3943 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3944 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3945
0961f7e1
JL
3946* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3947 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3948 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3949 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3950 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3951
f940b965
RE
3952* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3953
d0f5b3f8
JM
3954* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3955 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3956
d6fe5e58
JM
3957* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3958 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3959 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3960 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3961 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3962 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3963
464263cc
JM
3964* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3965 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3966
3967* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3968 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3969 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3970 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3971 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3972 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3973 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3974
3975* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3976
3977* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3978 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3979 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3980 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3981 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3982 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3983 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3984
3985* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3986 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3987 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3988 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3989 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3990
3991* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3992 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3993 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3994
3995* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3996 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3997 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3998 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3999
4000* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4001 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4002 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4003 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4004 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4005 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4006 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4007 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4008
4009* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4010 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4011 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4012 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4013 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4014 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4015 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4016 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4017 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4018
4019* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4020 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4021 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4022 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4023 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4024 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4025
4026* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4027 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4028 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4029 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4030\f
4031Version 2.19
4032
4033* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4034
fd2f9486
JM
4035 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4036 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4037 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4038 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4039 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4040 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4041 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4042 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4043 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4044 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4045 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4046 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4047 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4048 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4049 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4050 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4051 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4052 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4053
11520a57
CD
4054* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4055 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4056
2fe16229
CD
4057* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4058 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4059 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4060 extension which uses __block.
4061
303e567a
SP
4062* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4063 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4064 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4065 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4066 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4067
141f3a77
SP
4068* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4069 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4070 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4071 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4072 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4073
4074* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4075 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4076 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4077 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4078 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4079
4080* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4081 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4082 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4083
ba0d798c
WN
4084* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4085 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4086 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4087 #15856, #15857).
4088
7cbcdb36
SP
4089* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4090 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4091
82bab04b 4092* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4093 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4094
c5f840fd
MB
4095* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4096
3e181dda
CD
4097* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4098 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4099
3e181dda 4100* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4101
8a05c252
CL
4102* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4103
6055173a
JM
4104* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4105 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4106 for which the C library was built.
4107
b125d3e5
JM
4108* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4109 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4110 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4111 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4112 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4113 in the following circumstances:
4114
4115 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4116
4117 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4118 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4119
d4f66d37
JM
4120* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4121 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4122
3e181dda
CD
4123* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4124 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4125
ffb89e53
AO
4126* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4127
5d29ccce
SP
4128* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4129 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4130
8b7d57cd 4131* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4132
4133* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4134
fd712ef3 4135* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4136
c688b419
JM
4137* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4138 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4139 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4140 disable some of those declarations.
4141
7011c262 4142* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4143 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4144 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4145
4146* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4147 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4148
4149* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4150 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4151 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4152 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4153 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4154 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4155 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4156 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4157 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4158 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4159 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4160 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4161 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4162\f
4163Version 2.18
4164
4165* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4166
17db6e8d 4167 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4168 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4169 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4170 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4171 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4172 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4173 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4174 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4175 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4176 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4177 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4178 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4179 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4180 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4181
4182* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4183 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4184 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4185 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4186 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4187 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4188
5b535ac4
AS
4189* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4190 #15078).
4191
1cef1b19
AS
4192* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4193 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4194
55e4107b
SP
4195* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4196 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4197 destructor calls to glibc.
4198
e5c74c63
SP
4199* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4200 output.
4201
4202* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4203 non-x86 architectures.
4204
e7521973
JM
4205* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4206
4207* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4208
4209* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4210 Richard Henderson.
4211
4212* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4213
4214* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4215 Richard Henderson.
4216
4217* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4218 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4219
8cfdb7e0
SP
4220* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4221
57267616
TS
4222* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4223 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4224
c204ab28
SP
4225* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4226 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4227
0748546f
PE
4228* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4229 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4230 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4231
61dd6208
SP
4232* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4233 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4234 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4235
4236* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4237 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4238 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4239 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4240 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4241
4242* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4243 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4244
4245* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4246\f
4247Version 2.17
4248
4249* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4250
80ceeaee 4251 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4252 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4253 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4254 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4255 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4256 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4257 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4258 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4259 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4260 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4261 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4262 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4263 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4264 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4265 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4266
95b4f1b6
SE
4267* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4268
14bc93a9
JL
4269* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4270 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4271
b54eb3cb
JM
4272* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4273 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4274
7e2bd01f
MS
4275* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4276
08f43f9b
AK
4277* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4278 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4279 zEnterprise z196.
4280 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4281
84b3fd84
FW
4282* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4283 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4284 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4285
815e6fa3
GB
4286* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4287 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4288
400726de
MK
4289* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4290 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4291
7aab07e4 4292* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4293 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4294
15d0da8c
WS
4295* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4296 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4297
3cc3ef96
RM
4298* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4299 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4300 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4301 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4302
b54eb3cb
JM
4303* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4304 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4305
85429b1a 4306* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4307 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4308 default.
4309
b54eb3cb
JM
4310* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4311 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4312 information in --help and --version output.
4313
050af9c4
SP
4314* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4315 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4316 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4317
89a3ad0b
AO
4318* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4319 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4320 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4321 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4322 when the mode is enabled.
4323
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4324* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4325 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4326 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4327 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4328 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4329 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4330 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4331
d9286582
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4332* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4333 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4334\f
4335Version 2.16
4336
4337* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4338
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4339 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4340 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4341 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4342 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4343 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4344 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4345 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4346 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4347 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4348 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4349 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4350 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4351 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4352 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4353 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4354 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4355 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4356 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4357 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4358 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4359 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4360 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4361 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4362
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4363* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4364 configuring glibc with:
4365 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4366 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
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4367 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4368
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4369* ISO C11 support:
4370
4371 + define static_assert
4372
4373 + do not declare gets
4374
4375 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4376
4377 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4378 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4379 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4380 implementation.
8d44e150 4381
74033a25 4382 + timespec_get added
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4383
4384 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4385
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4386 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4387
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4388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4389
9dc4e1fb 4390* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4391
4392* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4393
4394* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4396
4397* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4398 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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AJ
4399
4400* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4401 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4402 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4403 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4404 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4405
21708942 4406* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4407 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4408 before 2.6.
83678f76 4409
edb00e4d
RH
4410* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4411 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4412 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4413
83678f76 4414* New locales: mag_IN
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4415
4416* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4417 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4418 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4419 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4420 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4421
4422* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4423
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4424* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4425 and Will Schmidt.
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4426
4427* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4428
4429* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4430 without a previously built glibc.
4431
4432* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4433 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4434
4435* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4436 now supported for ARM processors.
4437
4438* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4439 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4440 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4441
4442* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4443
4444* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4445 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4446 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4447 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4448
4449* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4450 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4451 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4452 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4453
4454* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4455 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4456 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4457 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4458 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4459
4460* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4461 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4462 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4463 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4465Version 2.15
11988f8f 4466
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4467* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4468
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4469 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4470 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4471 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4472 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4473 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4474 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4475 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4476
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4477* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4479
4480* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4481 and support for initgroups lookups.
4482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4483
4484* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4485 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4486
4487* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4488 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4489
fc2ee42a
LD
4490* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4491 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4492 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4493
d42964a0 4494* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
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4495 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4496
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4497* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4498 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4499 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4500
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4501* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4503
4504* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4506
4507* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4509
4510* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4512
4513* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4514 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4515
4516* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4518
4519* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4520
4521* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4522 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4523
f0b264f1
AZ
4524* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4525 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4526
6b64057b 4527* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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9f94d2ea 4530
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4531* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4532
553149f6 4533 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4534 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4535 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4536 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4537 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4538 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4539 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4540 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4541 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4542 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4543
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4544* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4545 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4546 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4547 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4548
4549 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4550 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4551 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4553
c6489db3 4554* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4555 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4556
72d1dddb 4557* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4558 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4559
4560* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4561
4562* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4564
4565* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4566 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4567 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4568 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4570Version 2.13
4571
ac2b484c
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4572* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4573
c30b7ee2
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4574 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4575 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4576 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4577 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4578 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4579
10b3bedc 4580* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4581
ac2b484c 4582* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4583
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4584* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4585 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4588Version 2.12
4589
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4590* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4591
2e0fb521
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4592 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4593 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4594 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4595 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4596 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4597 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4598 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4599 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4600
4601* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4602
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4603* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4604
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4605* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4606
4607* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4608 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4610
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4611* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4612 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4613 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4614 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4616
d36b9613 4617* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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4618\f
4619Version 2.11
4620
d36b9613
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4621* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4622
4623 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4624 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4625 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4626 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4627 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4628 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4629
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4630* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4631 mkostemps64
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4632 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4633
24ab9c76 4634* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4635 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4636
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4637* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4638 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4639
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4640* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4641
0122f28e 4642* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4643 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4644 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4645 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4646
9d36a6c4 4647 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4648 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4649
9d36a6c4
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4650* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4651 strstr, strcasestr.
4652 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4653
4654* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4655 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4656
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4657* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4658 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4659
4660* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4662
4663* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4664 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4665 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4666 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4667 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4668 necessity is every process again.
4669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4670
9d36a6c4
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4671* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4672 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4673
4674* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4675 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4676
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4677* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4678 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4680
9dd5b8a1 4681* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4682\f
4683Version 2.10
4684
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4685* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4686
4687 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4688 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4689 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4690 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4691 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4692
bb066545 4693* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4695
425ce2ed 4696* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4697 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4698
1fdd89a7 4699* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4700 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4701
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4702* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4703 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4704
1f04d005 4705* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4707
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4708* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4710
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4711* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4712 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4713
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4714* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4715 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4716
4717* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4718 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4720
735be400 4721* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4722
84aa52d7 4723* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4725
4726* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4727 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4729
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4730* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4732
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4733* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4734 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4735 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4736 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4737 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4740Version 2.9
4741
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4743
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4745 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4746 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4747 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4748 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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4752
4753* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4754 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4756* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4759* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4760 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4762
4763* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4764 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4768* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4769 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4771* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4772 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4773 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4775
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4776* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4777 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4780 Sinhala)
48b22986 4781 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4783* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4786
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4788
4789 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4790 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4791 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4792 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4793 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4794 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4795 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4796
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4801* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4802 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4803
4804* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4805
4806* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4808
4809* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4811
4812* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4813 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4814 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4815
4816* Faster memset for x86-64.
4817 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4818
4819* Faster memcpy on x86.
4820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4821
4822* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4823 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4825* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4826 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4829
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4830* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4831
4832 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4833 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4834 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4835 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4836 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4837
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4838* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4839 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4840
4841* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4842
4843* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4844 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4845 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4846
4847* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4848 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4849
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4851 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4852
4853* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4854
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4855* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4857
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4858* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4859 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4860
4861* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4862 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4863
4864* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4865
4866* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4867 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4869* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4870 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4871 yo_NG.
4872
4873+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4879
4880 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4881 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4882 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4883 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4884 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4885 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4886 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4887 4702, 4858
4888
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4892
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4896
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4898
4899 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4900 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4901 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4902 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4903 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4904 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4905 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4906 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4907 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4908
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4910 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4913* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4915
871b9158 4916* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4918* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4920* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4921 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4922 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4924 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4925
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4927 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4928 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4929 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4930
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4931* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4932 Ulrich Drepper.
4933
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4934* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4935
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4936* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4937 Ulrich Drepper.
4938
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4939* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4940
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4941* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4942 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4945
4946* More overflow detection functions.
4947
4948* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4949 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4951 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4952 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4953 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4954 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4955 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4956 by Masahide Washizawa.
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4959 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4961* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4962 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4963 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4964 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4966* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4967 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4968
4969* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4970
4971* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4972 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4973 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4974
4975* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4976 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4977
4978* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4979 for compatibility with some other systems.
4980
4981* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4983Version 2.3.6
4984
4985* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4986
4987 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4988 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4989 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4990 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4991 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4992 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4993
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4996* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4997
4998* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5001
5002* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5003
5004 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5005 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5006 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5007 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5008
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5011Version 2.3.4
5012
5013* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5014 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5015
5016* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5017 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5018 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5019
5020* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5021 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5022
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5024 efficiently.
5025 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5026
5027* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5028 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5029 handling data.
5030
5031* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5032 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5033 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5035* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5036 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5037
5038* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5039 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5040 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5041 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5042
5043* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5044 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5045 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5046 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5047
5048* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5049 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5050 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5051 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5052 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5054Version 2.3.3
5055
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5056* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5057 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5058
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5059* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5060 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5064
5065* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5066 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5068* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5069 by Roland McGrath.
5070
c5af724c 5071* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5072 and Ulrich Drepper.
5073
5074* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5075 RFC 3484.
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5079* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5080 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5081 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5082 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5083 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5084 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5085 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5086 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5087 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5088
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5089* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5090 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5091 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5092
5093* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5095* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5096 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5098* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5099 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5100
52a16e58 5101* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5103* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5104 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5106* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5107 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5108 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5109 of weak definition in ld.so.
5110
5111* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5112 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5113
5114* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5115 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5119* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5120 charsets.
5121
5122* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5123 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5125* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5126 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5128* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5129 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5130
bb0ec5bd 5131* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5132 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5133 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5135* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5136 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5137
bb0ec5bd 5138* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5139 implementation of regex.
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5141* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5142 Unicode 3.2.
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5144* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5145 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5147* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5148 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5149 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5150
5151* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5153
5154* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5155 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5156 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5158* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5159 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5161* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5162 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5163 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5165* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5168
5169* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5170 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5171
5172* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5173 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5176
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5177* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5178 128-bit long double format.
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5180* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5181 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5182
ad2e4f18 5183* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 5184
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5185* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5186
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5187* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5188 as well.
5189
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5190* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5191 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5192
5193* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5195Version 2.2.4
5196
2995f70e 5197* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5198 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5199
5200* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5201 support Unicode 3.1.
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5202
5203* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5204 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5205
69d5f925 5206* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5207
69d5f925 5208* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5209 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5210 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5211
5212* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5213 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5214
5215* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5216 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5217
5218* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5220Version 2.2.3
5221
1746f2b0 5222* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5223 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5224 in float, double, and long double format.
5225
f128331c 5226* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5227 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5228 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5229
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5230* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5231 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5232 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5233 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5234
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5235* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5236 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5237 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5238
5239* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5240 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5241
5242* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5243 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5244
5245* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5246 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5247 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5248
5249* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5250 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5251
5252* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5253 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5254
5255* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5257Version 2.2.2
5258
464d97ec 5259* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5260 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5261 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5262 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5263 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5264 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5265 other headers.
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5266
5267* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5268 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5269
5270* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5271 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5272 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5273 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5274
5275* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5276 locales. While
5277
5278 locale -a
5279
5280 only lists the names of the supported locales
5281
5282 locale -a --verbose
5283
5284 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5285 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5287Version 2.2.1
5288
5289* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5290 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5291 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5292 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5293 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5294
5295 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5296
5297 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5298
5299 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5300
5301* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5302 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5303 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5304
5305* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5306 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5307
5308* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5309 changed from the default "C" locale.
5310
5311* The usual bug fixes.
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5313Version 2.2
5314
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5315* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5316 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5317 is in progress.
5318
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5319* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5320
793bd4d9 5321* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5323 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5324 obviously requires a database library being available.
5325
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5326* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5327
abbffdf9 5328* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 5329
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5330* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5331 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5332
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5333* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5334
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5335* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5336 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5337 and Mark Kettenis.
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5338
5339 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5340 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5341 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5342
a00c3ca9 5343 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5344 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5345
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5346* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5347 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5348 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5349
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5350* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5351 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5352 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5354
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5355 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5356 structures for the wide character tables.
5357
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5358* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5359
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5360* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5361
5362* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5363
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5364* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5365 and Yutaka Niibe.
5366
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5367* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5368
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5369* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5370
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5371* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5372
5373* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5374
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5375* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5376
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5377* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5378 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5379 implemented for Linux.
5380
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5381* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5382 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5383 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5384 versions.
5385
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5386* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5387 Masahide Washizawa.
5388
8f3f1e09 5389* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5390\f
5391Version 2.1.3
5392
5393* bug fixes
5394
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5395\f
5396Version 2.1.2
5397
5398* bug fixes
5399
28f540f4 5400\f
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5401Version 2.1.1
5402
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5403* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5404
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5405* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5406
407d26b7 5407* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5408
5409* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5410
407d26b7 5411* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5412
407d26b7 5413* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5414
5415* Update timezone data files.
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5417* lots of charmaps corrections
5418
5419* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5420
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5422Version 2.1
5423
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5424* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5425 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5426 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5427 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5428 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5429 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5430
c84142e8 5431* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5432 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5433
1fb05e3d 5434* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5435 symbol level.
5436
5437* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5438 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5439
cbdee279 5440* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5441
5442* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5443 numbers.
377a515b 5444
cbdee279 5445* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5446
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5447* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5448 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5449
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5450* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5451 library.
5452
e61abf83 5453* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5454 functions from ISO C 9X.
5455
5456* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5457 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5458
a5a0310d 5459* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5460
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5461* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5462
5463* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5464
440d13e2 5465* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5466
5467* Optimized string functions have been added.
5468
5469* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5470
5471* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5473* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5474 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5475
5476 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5477 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5478
0dee6738 5479 user system wall
48244d09 5480
0dee6738 5481 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5482
0dee6738 5483 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5484
0dee6738 5485 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5487 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5488
5489 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5490
5491 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5493 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5494 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5495 horribly slow.
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5497 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5498 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5499
5500* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5501
5502* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5503
5504* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5505 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5506
5507* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5509* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5510 Bambrough.
5511
5512* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5513 latest draft standards.
5514
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5515* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5516
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5517* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5518~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5519addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5521argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5522argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5523argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5524argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5525argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5526argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5527argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5528argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5529argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5530argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5531authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5532authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5533authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5534backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5535backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5536backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5537cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5538cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5539cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5540cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5541cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5542cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5543capget NEW: kernel
5544capset NEW: kernel
5545carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5546cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5547cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5548casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5549casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5550casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5551casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5552casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5553casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5554catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5555catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5556catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5557catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5558catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5559catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5562ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5563ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5564ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5565ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5566ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5567cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5568cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5569cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5570cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5571cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5572cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5573clearerr_locked REMOVED
5574clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5575clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5576clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5577clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5578clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5579clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5580clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5581conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5582conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5583conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5584cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5585cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5586cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5587cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5588cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5589cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5590creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5591crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5592creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5593creat64 NEW: LFS
5594csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5595csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5596csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5597csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5598csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5599csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5600csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5601csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5602csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5603ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5604ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5605ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5606ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5607ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5608ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5609des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5610ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5611endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5612exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5613exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5614exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5615exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5616exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5617exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5618fattach NEW: STREAMS
5619fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5620fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5621fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5622fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5623feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5624fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5625fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5626fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5627feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5628feof_locked REMOVED
5629feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5630ferror_locked REMOVED
5631fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5632fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5633fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5634fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5635feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5636fflush_locked REMOVED
5637ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5638ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5639fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5640fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5641fileno_locked REMOVED
5642fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5643fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5644fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5645fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5646fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5647fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5648fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5649fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5650fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5651fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5652fopen64 NEW: LFS
5653fputc_locked REMOVED
5654fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5655fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5656freopen64 NEW: LFS
5657fseeko NEW: Unix98
5658fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5659fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5660fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5661fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5662ftello NEW: Unix98
5663ftello64 NEW: LFS
5664ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5665ftw64 NEW: LFS
5666fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5667gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5668gamma_r REMOVED
5669gammaf_r REMOVED
5670gammal_r REMOVED
5671getchar_locked REMOVED
5672getdate NEW: Unix98
5673getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5674getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5675getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5676getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5679getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5680getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5681getutxent NEW: Unix98
5682getutxid NEW: Unix98
5683getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5684glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5685globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5686gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5687gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5688grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5689host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5690iconv NEW: iconv
5691iconv_close NEW: iconv
5692iconv_open NEW: iconv
5693if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5694if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5695if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5696if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5697in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5698in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5699inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5700isastream NEW: STREAMS
5701iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5702key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5703key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5704key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5705key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5706key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5707key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5708key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5709key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5710key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5711llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5712llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5713llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5714llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5715llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5716llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5717log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5718log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5719log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5720lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5721lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5722lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5723lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5724lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5725lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5726lseek64 NEW: LFS
5727makecontext NEW: Unix98
5728mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5729mmap64 NEW: LFS
5730moncontrol REMOVED
5731modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5732nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5733nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5734nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5735nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5736nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5737nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5738netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5739netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5740nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5741nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5742nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5743nftw NEW: Unix98
5744nftw64 NEW: LFS
5745open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5746passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5747pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5748pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5749pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5750pread NEW: Unix98
5751pread64 NEW: LFS
5752printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5753printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5754profil_counter REMOVED
5755pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5756pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5757ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5758ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5759putc_locked REMOVED
5760putchar_locked REMOVED
5761putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5762putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5763putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5764pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5765pwrite NEW: Unix98
5766pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5767readdir64 NEW: LFS
5768readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5769remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5770remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5771remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5772round NEW: ISO C 9x
5773roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5774roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5775rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5776scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5777scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5778scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5779scandir64 NEW: LFS
5780sendfile NEW: kernel
5781setcontext NEW: Unix98
5782setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5783setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5784sighold NEW: Unix98
5785sigignore NEW: Unix98
5786sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5787sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5788sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5789sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5790sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5791sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5792sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5793sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5794statfs64 NEW: LFS
5795statvfs NEW: Unix98
5796statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5797strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5798strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5799strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5800strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5801svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5802svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5803svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5804swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5805tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5806tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5807tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5808tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5809tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5810tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5811trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5812truncate64 NEW: LFS
5813truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5814truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5815umount2 NEW: kernel
5816unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5817updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5818user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5819utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5820versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5821versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5822waitid NEW: Unix98
5823wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5824wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5825wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5826wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5827wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5828wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5829wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5830wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5831wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5832wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5833write_profiling REMOVED
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5834xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5835xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5836xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5837xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5838xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5839xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5840xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5841xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5842xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5843xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5844xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5845xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5846xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5847xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5848xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5849~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5851Version 2.0.6
5852
5853* more bug fixes
5854
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5856Version 2.0.5
5857
5858* more bug fixes
5859
5860* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5861
5862* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5863
5864* rewrite of cbrt function
5865
5866* update of timezone data
5867\f
5868Version 2.0.4
5869
5870* more bug fixes
5871\f
5872Version 2.0.3
5873
5874* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5875\f
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5876Version 2.0.2
5877
5878* more bug fixes
5879
5880* add atoll function
5881
5882* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5883
5884* fix math functions
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5885\f
5886Version 2.0.1
5887
5888* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5889
5890* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5891
5892* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5893 the ELF dynamic loader.
5894
5895* support for parallel builds is improved
5896\f
40a4b79f 5897Version 2.0
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5899* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5900 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5901 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5902
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5903* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5904 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5905 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5906 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5907 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5908 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5909 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5910 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5911 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5912 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5913 files in the ELF format.
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5914
5915* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5916 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5917
5918* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5919 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5920 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5921 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5922 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5923 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5924 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5925 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5926 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5927 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5928 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5930* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5931 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5932 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5933 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5934 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5935
f7eac6eb 5936* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5937 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5938 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5939 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5940 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5941
5942* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5944* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5945 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5946 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5947 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5948 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5949 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5950 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5951 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5952 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5953
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5954* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5955 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5956 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5957
5958* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5959 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5960 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5961
5962* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5963 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5964 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5965 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5966
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5967* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5968 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5969 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5970
5971* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5972 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5973 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5974
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5975* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5976 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5977
f7eac6eb 5978* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5979 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5980 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5981 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5982
5983* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5984 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5985 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5986
71733723 5987* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5988 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5989 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5990 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5991 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5992 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5993 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5994 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5995
5996* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5997 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5998 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5999 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6000 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6001 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6002 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6003
6004* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6005 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6006 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6007 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6008 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6009 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6010
6011* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6012 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6013
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6014* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6015 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6016 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6018* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6019
6020* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6021 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6022 their use is discouraged.
6023
6024* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6025 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6027* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6028 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6029
6030* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6031 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6032
6033* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6034 see <dirent.h>.
6035
6036* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6037 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6038 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6039 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6040 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6041
6042* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6043 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6044 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6045 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6046
6047* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6048 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6049
6050* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6051 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6052 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6053 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6054 number generator.
6055
6056* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6057 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6058
6059* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6060 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6061
71733723 6062* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6063 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6064 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6065 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6066
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6067* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6068
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6069* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6070 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6071 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6072
6073* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6074 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6076* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6077 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6078 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6079 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6080
6081* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6082 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6083 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6084 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6085 programs already written to use it.)
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6086
6087* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6088 constants.
6089
6090* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6091 with 4.4 BSD.
6092
6093* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6094 a given effective group ID.
6095
6096* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6097 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6098 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6099 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6100
6101* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6102 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6103 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6104 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6105 doing the same thing.
6106
6107* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6108 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6109
6110* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6111 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6112
6113* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6114
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6115* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6116 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6117 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6118 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6119 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6120
6121* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6122 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6123
6124* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6125 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6126 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6127 function.
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6128
6129* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6130
6131* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6132 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6133 strings.
6134
6135* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6136 and writing the utmp file.
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6137
6138* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6139 Thorsten Kukuk.
6140
6141* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6142 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6143 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6144
6145* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6146 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6147
6148* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6149 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6150 specification.
6151
6152* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6153 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6154 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6155 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6156
6157* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6158 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6159 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6160
6161* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6162 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6163 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6164 expression matcher.
6165
6166* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6167 functionality.
6168
6169* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6170 by Ulrich Drepper.
6171
6172* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6173
6174* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6175 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6176 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6178Version 1.09
6179
6180* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6181
6182* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6183 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6184
6185* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6186 want to put themselves in the background.
6187
6188* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6189 run without an operating system.
6190
6191* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6192 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6193
6194* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6195 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6196
6197* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6198
6199* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6200 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6201 have YP (aka NIS).
6202
6203* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6204 conventions.
6205
6206* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6207 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6208\f
6209Version 1.08
6210
6211* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6212 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6213 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6214
6215* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6216 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6217
6218* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6219 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6220
6221* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6222
6223* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6224
6225* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6226 compatibility.
6227
6228* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6229 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6230 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6231
6232* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6233
6234* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6235 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6236 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6237
6238* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6239 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6240 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6241 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6242 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6243 on a block).
6244
6245* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6246 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6247 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6248 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6249 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6250 cross-compiler.
6251
6252* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6253 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6254\f
6255Version 1.07
6256
6257* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6258 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6259
6260* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6261 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6262 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6263
6264* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6265 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6266 address of the last character written.
6267
6268* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6269 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6270
6271* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6272 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6273
6274* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6275 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6276 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6277 you dereference this pointer.
6278
6279* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6280 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6281
6282* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6283 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6284 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6285 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6286
6287* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6288 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6289 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6290 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6291\f
6292Version 1.06
6293
6294* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6295 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6296 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6297 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6298 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6299
6300* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6301
6302* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6303
6304* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6305 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6306
6307* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6308 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6309
6310* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6311 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6312
6313* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6314 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6315 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6316 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6317 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6318
6319* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6320 to the error code in `errno'.
6321
6322* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6323 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6324 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6325 malloc'd string.
6326
6327* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6328 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6329 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6330
6331* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6332 uniquely-named temporary file.
6333\f
6334Version 1.05
6335
6336* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6337 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6338 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6339
6340* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6341 characters.
6342
6343* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6344 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6345
6346* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6347\f
6348Version 1.04
6349
6350* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6351 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6352 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6353 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6354
6355* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6356 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6357 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6358
6359* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6360 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6361
6362* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6363 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6364 made itself into a shared library.
6365
6366* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6367 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6368
6369* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6370 with limited length.
6371
6372* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6373
6374* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6375
6376* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6377
6378* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6379 function for traversing a directory tree.
6380
6381* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6382 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6383 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6384 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6385
6386* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6387 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6388
6389* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6390
6391* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6392 things to your strings.
6393
6394* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6395
6396* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6397 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6398 supporting those systems.
6399
6400* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6401 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6402 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6403 configuration files.
6404
6405* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6406 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6407
6408* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6409 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6410 in <strings.h>.)
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6411
6412* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6413 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6414 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6415 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6416 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6417 required storage is not available.
6418
6419* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6420 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6421
6422* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6423 latest files released from Berkeley.
6424\f
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6427
6428 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6429 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6430 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6431 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6432
6433 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6434 of this document, or of portions of it,
6435 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6436 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6437\f
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