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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
04277e02 2Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.31
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10Major new features:
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12* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
13 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
14 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
15 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
16 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
17 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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19* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
20 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
21 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
22 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
23
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24Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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26* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
27 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
28 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
29 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
30 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
31 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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33* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
34 binaries and it has been removed from <time.h> header. This function
35 has been deprecated in favor of clock_settime.
36
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37Changes to build and runtime requirements:
38
39 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
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41Security related changes:
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43 [Add security related changes here]
44
45The following bugs are resolved with this release:
46
47 [The release manager will add the list generated by
48 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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51Version 2.30
52
53Major new features:
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55* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
56 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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57 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
58
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59* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
60 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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62* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
63 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
64 to the callback function.
65
51ea67d5 66* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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68* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
69 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
70 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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72* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
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74* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
75 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
76 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
77 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
78 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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80* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
81 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
82 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
83 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
84 link time reference, is gone.
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86* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
87 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
88 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
89 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
90 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
91 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
92 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
93 the clock choice at initialization time).
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95* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
96 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
97 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
98
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99Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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101* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
102 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
103 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
104 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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105 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
106 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
107 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
108 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
109 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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111* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
112 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
113 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
114 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
115 since glibc 2.17.
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117* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
118 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
119
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120* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
121 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
122
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123* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
124 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
125
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126* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
127 BIND_NOW flag.
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129* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
130 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
131 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
132
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133* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
134 header have been removed.
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136* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
137 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
138 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
139 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
140
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141Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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143* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
144
145 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
146 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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148Security related changes:
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150 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
151 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
152 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
153 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
154 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
155 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
156 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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158 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
159 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
160 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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162The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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164 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
165 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
166 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
167 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
168 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
169 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
170 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
171 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
172 invalid input drops valid char
173 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
174 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
175 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
176 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
177 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
178 malloc.h.
179 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
180 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
181 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
182 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
183 functions
184 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
185 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
186 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
187 for long double = double
188 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
189 long double = double
190 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
191 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
192 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
193 long timeouts
194 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar ouput to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
195 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
196 checking for NULL.
197 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
198 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
199 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
200 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
201 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
202 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
203 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
204 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
205 not the default "nor"
206 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
207 false positives, change to modern flexible array
208 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
209 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
210 compiler barriers.
211 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
212 unnecessary librt dependencies
213 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
214 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
215 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
216 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
217 unsorted chunk
218 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
219 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
220 to R_SPARC_H44
221 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
222 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
223 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
224 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
225 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
226 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
227 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
228 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
229 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
230 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
231 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
232 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
233 was not used
234 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
235 tests
236 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
237 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
238 time_t changes
239 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
240 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
241 kernels and break testing
242 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
243 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
244 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
245 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
246 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
247 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
248 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
249 -O3 -march=skylake
250 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
251 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
252 crash
253 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
254 linked glibc
255 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
256 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
257 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
258 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
259 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
260 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
261 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
262 always implemented in the same library
263 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
264 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
265 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
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269Version 2.29
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271Major new features:
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273* The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
274 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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276* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
277 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
278 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
279 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
280 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
281 configured location.
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424c4f60 283* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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285* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
286 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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288* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
289 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
290 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
291 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
292 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
293 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
294 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
295 process actually does not use HTM).
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297* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
298 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
299 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
300 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
301 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
302 of the same name.
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304* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
305 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
306 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
5fc3eca7 307 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
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308 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
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310* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
311 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
312 supported:
313 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
314 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
315
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316* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
317 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
318 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
319 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
320 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
321 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
322 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
323
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324* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
325 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
326 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
327
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328Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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330* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
331 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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333* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
334 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
335 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
336 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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338* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
339 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
340 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
341 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
342 structures.
343
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344* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
345 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
346 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
347 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
348 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
349 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
350
351 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
352 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
353 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
354 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
355 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
356
357 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
358 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
359 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
360
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361Changes to build and runtime requirements:
362
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365* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
366 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
367
368 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
369 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
370
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373 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
374 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
375 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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377 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
378 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
379 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
380 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
381 Reported by H.J. Lu.
382
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383 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
384 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
385 or command injection issues in applications.
386
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387The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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389 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
390 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
391 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
392 thousands
393 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
394 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
395 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
396 --param options)
397 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
398 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
399 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
400 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
401 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
402 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
403 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
404 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
405 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
406 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
407 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
408 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
409 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
410 pointer argument is non-NULL
411 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
412 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
413 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
414 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
415 multithreads call popen
416 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
417 and pthread_create fails.
418 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
419 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
420 constructor
421 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
422 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
423 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
424 source tree
425 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
426 float
427 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
428 one error
429 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
430 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
431 linker
432 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
433 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
434 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
435 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
436 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
437 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
438 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
439 filesystems
440 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
441 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
442 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
443 functions
444 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
445 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
446 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
447 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
448 have wrong type
449 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
450 wrong type
451 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
452 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
453 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
454 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
455 threads
456 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
457 start.S
458 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
459 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
460 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
461 powerpc64le
462 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
463 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
464 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
465 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
466 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
467 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
468 strftime
469 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
470 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
471 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
472 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
473 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
474 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
475 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
476 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
477 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
478 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
479 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
480 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
481 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
482 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
483 tcache size
484 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
485 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
486 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
487 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
488 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
489 (CVE-2018-19591)
490 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
491 nearest rounding mode
492 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
493 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
494 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
495 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
496 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
497 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
498 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
499 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
500 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
501 error
502 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
503 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
504 using GCC 8
505 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
506 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
507 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
508 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
509 ppc64le
510 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
511 expected result
512 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
513 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
514 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
515 sigaltstack
516 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
517 answers will be rejected)
518 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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523Major new features:
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526 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
527 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
528 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
529 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
530 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
531 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
532 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
533 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
534 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
535 archive or binary locales.
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538 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
539 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
540 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
541 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
542 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
543 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
544 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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546 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
547 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
548 validated for i686.
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551 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
552 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
553 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
554 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
555 field) to indicate such support is required.
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558 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
559 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
560
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562 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
563
564 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
565 fMxaddfNx functions.
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567 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
568 fMxsubfNx functions.
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570 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
571 fMxmulfNx functions.
572
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573 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
574 fMxdivfNx functions.
575
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df467d22 577 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
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580 and Kashubian.
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e607a352 583 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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585* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
586 patches.
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588* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
589 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
590 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
591 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
592 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
593 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
594 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
595 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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598 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
599 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
600 the fstatat64 function.
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602* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
603 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
604 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
605 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
606 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
607 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
608 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
609 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
610 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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613 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
614 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
615 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
616 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
617 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
618 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
619 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
620 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
621 results in a load failure now.
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624 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
625 <threads.h>:
626
627 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
628 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
629
630 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
631 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
632
633 - call_once for function call synchronization.
634
635 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
636 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
637
638 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
639
640 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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644* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
645 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
646 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
647
648* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
649 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
650 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
651 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
652 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
653 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
654
655* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
656 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
657 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
658 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
659 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
660 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
661 (Bug #1190.)
662
663* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
664 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
665 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
666 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
667 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
668 further explanation.
669
670 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
671 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
672 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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674* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
675
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676* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
677 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
678 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
679
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680* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
681 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
682 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
683 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
684
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686 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
687 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
688 for this function instead.
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691 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
692 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
693
694* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
695 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
696 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
697 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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700 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
701 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
702 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
703 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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705* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
706 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
707 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
708 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
709 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
710 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
711 such as libgcrypt.
712
713* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
714 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
715 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
716 enabled.
717
718* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
719 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
720 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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723 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
724 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
725 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
726 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
727 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
728
729 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
730 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
731 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
732 behavior in a future release.
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738Security related changes:
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741 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
742 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
743 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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745 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
746 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
747
748 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
749 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
750 Izbyshev.
751
752 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
753 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
754 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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758 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
759 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
760 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
761 when __WORDSIZE != 64
762 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
763 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
764 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
765 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
766 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
767 14651
768 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
769 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
770 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
771 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
772 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
773 conversion is given
774 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
775 date
776 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
777 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
778 scope with -O1 and higher
779 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
780 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
781 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
782 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
783 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
784 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
785 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
786 horrible machine code)
787 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
788 last constant.
789 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
790 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
791 symbols
792 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
793 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
794 defined
795 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
796 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
797 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
798 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
799 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
800 fpscr.c'
801 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
802 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
803 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
804 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
805 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
806 the base address
807 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
808 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
809 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
810 open_verify
811 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
812 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
813 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
814 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
815 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
816 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
817 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
818 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
819 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
820 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
821 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
822 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
823 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
824 dlopen
825 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
826 AT_SECURE=1
827 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
828 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
829 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
830 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
831 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
832 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
833 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
834 for Spanish with CLDR
835 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
836 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
837 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
838 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
839 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
840 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
841 es_BO
842 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
843 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
844 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
845 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
846 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
847 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
848 dlopen failures
849 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
850 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
851 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
852 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
853 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
854 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
855 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
856 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
857 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
858 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
859 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
860 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
861 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
862 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
863 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
864 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
865 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
866 makecontext
867 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
868 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
869 required
870 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
871 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
872 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
873 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
874 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
875 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
876 disabled
877 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
878 failure
879 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
880 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
881 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
882 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
883 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
884 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
885 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
886 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
887 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
888 and libc build with -Os)
889 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
890 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
891 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
892 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
893 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
894 that changes /etc/passwd
895 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
896 (CVE-2018-11237)
897 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
898 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
899 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
900 posix/regcomp.c
901 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
902 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
903 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
904 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
905 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
906 AT_SECURE
907 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
908 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
909 parser.c
910 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
911 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
912 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
913 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
914 directed rounding
915 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
916 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
917 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
918 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
919 lookup
920 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
921 interposition
922 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
923 DSO boundaries.
924 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
925 <linux/time.h>
926 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
927 checking
928 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
929 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
930 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
931 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
932 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
933 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
934 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
935 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
936 processors
937 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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940Version 2.27
941
942Major new features:
943
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945 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 946 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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947 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
948 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
949 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
950 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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951 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
952 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 953
ac817e08 954* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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955 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
956 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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958* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
959
4cf82d23 960* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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962* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
963 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
964 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
965 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
966 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
967 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
968 from a security and performance perspective.
969
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970* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
971 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
972 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
973 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
974
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976 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
977 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
978 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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979 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
980
a23aa5b7 981* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 982 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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983 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
984 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
985 _Float128.
986
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987* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
988 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
989 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 990
4bab0224 991* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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993* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
994 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
995 pkey_get.
996
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997* The copy_file_range function was added.
998
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999* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1000
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1001* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1002 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1003 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1004
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1005* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1006 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1007 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1008 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1009 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1010 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1011 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1012
1013 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1014 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1015 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1016 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1017 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1018 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1019 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1020
1021 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1022 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1023 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1024 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1025 respectively.
1026
1027 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1028 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1029 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1030 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1031
1032 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1033 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1034 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1035
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1036 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1037 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1038 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1041 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1042 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1043
1044 - rv64imac lp64
1045 - rv64imafdc lp64
1046 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1047
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1049
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1050* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1051 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1052 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1053 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1054 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1055 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1056 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1057 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1058 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1059 fix this.
1060
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1061* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1062 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1063 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1064
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1065* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1066 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1067 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1068 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1069 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1070 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1071 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1072 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1073 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1074 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1075 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1076 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1077 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1078 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1079 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1080 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1081 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1082 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1083 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1084 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1085 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1086 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1087 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1088 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1089 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1090 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1091
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1093 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1095* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1096 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1097 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1098 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1099 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1100 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1101 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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1103* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1104 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1105 exp10l for these functions instead.
1106
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1107* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1108 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1109 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1110
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1111* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1112 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1113 ignored.
1114
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1115* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1116 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1117 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1118 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1119
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1120* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1121 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1122
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1123* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1124 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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1126* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1127 programs.
1128
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1129* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1130
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1131* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1132 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1133 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1134 instead.
1135
1136 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1137 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1138 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1139 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1140 use, but predates the bits convention.
1141
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1143
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1144* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1145 subdirectory.
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1147Security related changes:
1148
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1149 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1150 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1151 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1152 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1153 script.)
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1155 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1156 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1157 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1158 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1160 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1161 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1162 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1163 of service.
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1165 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1166 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1167 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1168
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1169 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1170 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1171 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1172 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1173
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1174 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1175 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1176 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1177 Qualys.
1178
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1179 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1180 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1181 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1182 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1183 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1184
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1185 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1186 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1187 current directory.
1188
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1189 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1190 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1191 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1192
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1193 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1194 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1195 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1196
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1197 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1198 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1199 small, instead of NULL.
1200
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1202
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1203 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1204 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1205 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1206 locale
1207 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1208 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1209 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1210 cases
1211 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1212 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1213 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1214 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1215 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1216 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1217 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1218 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1219 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1220 "Bangla"
1221 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1222 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1223 width Latin characters
1224 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1225 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1226 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1227 letters
1228 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1229 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1230 (CVE-2009-5064)
1231 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1232 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1233 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1234 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1235 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1236 if malloc succeeded
1237 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1238 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1239 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1240 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1241 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1242 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1243 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1244 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1245 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1246 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1247 U+309A
1248 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1249 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1250 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1251 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1252 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1253 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1254 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1255 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1256 for Nicaragua
1257 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1258 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1259 are not found.
1260 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1261 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1262 access
1263 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1264 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1265 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1266 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1267 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1268 __regcall calling convention
1269 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1270 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1271 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1272 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1273 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1274 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1275 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1276 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1277 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1278 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1279 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1280 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1281 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1282 locale
1283 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1284 protector=all
1285 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1286 wcwidth
1287 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1288 consistency check failures
1289 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1290 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1291 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1292 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1293 PIE
1294 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1295 locales
1296 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1297 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1298 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1299 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1300 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1301 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1302 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1303 on memory allocation failure
1304 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1305 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1306 the suspect)
1307 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1308 default (i386)
1309 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1310 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1311 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1312 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1313 instead of EAI_NODATA
1314 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1315 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1316 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1317 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1318 implementation
1319 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1320 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1321 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1322 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1323 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1324 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1325 allocation in syscall loops)
1326 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1327 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1328 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1329 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1330 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1331 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1332 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1333 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1334 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1335 occur with -O3
1336 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1337 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1338 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1339 amounts)
1340 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1341 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1342 niu_NZ
1343 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1344 checks
1345 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1346 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1347 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1348 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1349 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1350 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1351 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1352 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1353 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1354 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1355 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1356 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1357 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1358 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1359 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1360 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1361 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1362 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1363 parsing after OOM
1364 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1365 object
1366 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1367 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1368 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1369 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1370 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1371 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
1372 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
1373 ppc64le
1374 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1375 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1376 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1377 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1378 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1379 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1380 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1381 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1382 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1383 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1384 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1385 math_force_eval
1386 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1387 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1388 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1389 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1390 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1391 the svid compat wrapper
1392 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1393 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1394 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1395 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1396 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1397 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1398 --verbose.
1399 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1400 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1401 to 2.26
1402 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1403 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1404 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1405 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1406 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1407 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1408 (CVE-2017-15804)
1409 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1410 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1411 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1412 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1413 failure."
1414 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1415 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1416 -m32
1417 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1418 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1419 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1420 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1421 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1422 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1423 inside the ASCII printable range
1424 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1425 -mlong-double-64
1426 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1427 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1428 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1429 Internet
1430 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1431 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1432 backslash
1433 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1434 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1435 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1436 heaps in an arena
1437 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1438 networking interface
1439 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1440 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1441 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1442 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1443 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1444 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1445 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1446 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1447 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1448 order
1449 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1450 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1451 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1452 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1453 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1454 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
1455 same as for Croatian
1456 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
1457 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
1458 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
1459 for initial thread"
1460 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
1461 SC_SSIZE_MAX
1462 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
1463 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
1464 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1465 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
1466 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
1467 (CVE-2017-1000408)
1468 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
1469 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
1470 modified in case of success
1471 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
1472 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
1473 success
1474 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
1475 stack-protector=all
1476 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
1477 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
1478 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
1479 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
1480 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
1481 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
1482 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
1483 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
1484 adding it on top
1485 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
1486 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
1487 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
1488 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
1489 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
1490 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
1491 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
1492 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
1493 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
1494 (CVE-2018-1000001)
1495 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
1496 elision and tunables
1497 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
1498 "invalid" exception
1499 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
1500 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
1501 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
1502 exception
1503 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1504 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
1505 power4
1506 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
1507 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
1508 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
1509 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
1510 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
1511 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
1512 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
1513 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
1514 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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1517Version 2.26
1518
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1519Major new features:
1520
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1521* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
1522 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
1523 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
1524 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
1525 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
1526 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
1527 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
1528
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1529* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1530 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 1531 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1532 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
1533 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
1534 are rendered with pango, see for example:
1535 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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1537* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
1538 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
1539 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 1540
2b2ccd0c 1541* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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1543 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
1544 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
1545 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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1547 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
1548 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
1549 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
1550 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
1551 object are still limited to six search domains.
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1553 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
1554 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
1555 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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1557* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
1558 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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1560* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
1561 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
1562 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
1563 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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1565* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
1566 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
1567 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
1568 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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1570* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
1571 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
1572 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
1573 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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1575* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
1576 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
1577 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 1578
2b2ccd0c 1579* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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1580 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
1581 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
1582 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 1583
2b2ccd0c 1584 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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1585 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
1586 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
1587 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
1588 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
1589
1590 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
1591 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
1592 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
1593 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
1594 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
1595 interfaces should be used instead.
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1597Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1598
1599* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
1600 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
1601 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
1602 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
1603 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
1604 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
1605 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
1606 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
1607
1608* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
1609 removed.
1610
1611* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 1612 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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1613 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
1614 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
1615
1616* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
1617 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
1618 default.
1619
1620 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
1621 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
1622 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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1623 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
1624 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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1626 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
1627 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
1628 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
1629 name service modules, to be built and installed.
1630
1631* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
1632 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
1633 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
1634 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
1635
1636* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
1637 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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1639* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
1640 exported by accident.
1641
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1642* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
1643 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
1644 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
1645
1646* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
1647 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
1648 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
1649 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
1650
1651* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
1652
1653* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
1654
1655* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
1656 free instead.
1657
1658* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
1659 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1660
1661* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
1662 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1663
1664* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
1665 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
1666 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
1667 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
1668 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
1669 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
1670 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
1671 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
1672
1673* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
1674 synced with the kernel:
1675
1676 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
1677 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
1678
1679 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
1680 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
1681 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
1682
1683 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
1684 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
1685
1686Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1687
1688* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
1689 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
1690 x86-32 and x86-64.)
1691
7e368000 1692* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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1695 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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1697 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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1698 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
1699 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
1700 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 1701 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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1704
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1706 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
1707
1708* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
1709 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
1710
1711* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
1712 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
1713 (CVE-2010-3192).
1714
1715* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
1716 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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1718The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1720 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
1721 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
1722 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
1723 fields
1724 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
1725 (CVE-2010-3192)
1726 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
1727 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
1728 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
1729 ld.bfd is available
1730 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
1731 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
1732 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
1733 x86 and other generic code
1734 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
1735 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
1736 incorrect
1737 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
1738 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
1739 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
1740 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
1741 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
1742 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
1743 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
1744 resolver
1745 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
1746 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
1747 order of 0D36 and 0D37
1748 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
1749 chillu characters
1750 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
1751 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
1752 receiving data
1753 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
1754 whitespace
1755 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
1756 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
1757 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
1758 for Peru
1759 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
1760 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1761 failures consistently
1762 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1763 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1764 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1765 frame-pointer on i386
1766 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1767 register
1768 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1769 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1770 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1771 generic c code is used
1772 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1773 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1774 around 4000
1775 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1776 (CVE-2017-12133)
1777 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1778 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1779 with -lieee
1780 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1781 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1782 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1783 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1784 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1785 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1786 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1787 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1788 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1789 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1790 remove()
1791 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1792 checked for errors.
1793 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1794 new posix_spawn implementation
1795 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1796 leads to lower CPU frequency
1797 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1798 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1799 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1800 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1801 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1802 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1803 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1804 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1805 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1806 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1807 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1808 not support gethostbyname4_r
1809 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1810 switching
1811 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1812 arenas
1813 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1814 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1815 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1816 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1817 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1818 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1819 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1820 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1821 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1822 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1823 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1824 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1825 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1826 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1827 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1828 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1829 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1830 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1831 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1832 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1833 retry value
1834 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1835 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1836 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1837 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1838 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1839 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1840 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1841 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1842 [21537] libc:
1843 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1844 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1845 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1846 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1847 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1848 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1849 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1850 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1851 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1852 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1853 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1854 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1855 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1856 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1857 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1858 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1859 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1860 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1861 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1862 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1863 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1864 issue on x86-64
1865 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1866 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1867 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1868 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1869 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1870 construction
1871 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1872 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1873 between_2_3
1874 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1875 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1876 conditions
1877 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1878 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1879 Hindi Locale
1880 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1881 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1882 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1883 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1884 locale
1885 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1886 leading to relocation crash
1887 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1888 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1889 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1890 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1891 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1892 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1893 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1894 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1895 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1896 locale
1897 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1898 locale
1899 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1900 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1901 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1902 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1903 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1904 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1905 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1906 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1907 strings
1908 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1909 protector=all
1910 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1911 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1912 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1913 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1914 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1915 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1916 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1917 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1918 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1919 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1920 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1921 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1922 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1923 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1924 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1925 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1926 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1927 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1928 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1929 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1930 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1931 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1932 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1933 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1934 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1935 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1936 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1937 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1938 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1939 with unicode 9.0
1940 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1941 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1942 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1943 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1944 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1947Version 2.25
1948
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1949* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1950 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1951 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1952 Library.
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1954* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1955 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1956 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1957 the GNU C Library.
1958
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1959* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1960 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1961 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1962 the GNU C Library.
1963
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1964* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1965 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1966 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1967 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1968 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1969 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1970 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1971 will not.
1972
1973 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1974 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1975 many years.
1976
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1977* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
1978 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1979 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1980
1981 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1982 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1983 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1984 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1985 problem.
1986
ec94343f 1987* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1988 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
1989 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 1990
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1991* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1992 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1993 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1994 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1995 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1996 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1997 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1998 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1999 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2000 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2001 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2002 WINT_WIDTH.
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2004* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2005
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2006 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2007
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2008 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2009 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2010 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2011
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2012 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2013 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2014
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2015 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2016 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2017
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2018 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2019
29cb9293 2020 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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2022 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2023 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2024
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2025 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2026
eb3c12c7 2027 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2028 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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2030* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2031 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2032
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2033* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2034 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2035 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2036
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2037* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2038 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2039 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2040 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2041 effects of the memory clear).
2042
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2043* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2044 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2045 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2046 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2047
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2048* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2049 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2050 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2051 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2052 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2053 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2054
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2055* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2056 have been added.
2057
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2058* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2059 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2060 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2061 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2062 as large as several megabytes.
2063
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2064* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2065 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2066 been removed.
2067
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2068* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2069 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2070 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2071 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2072 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2073 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2074 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2075
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2076* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2077 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2078 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2079 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2080
099191b1 2081* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2082 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2083 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2084 Internet.
2085
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2086* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2087 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2088 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2089
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2090* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2091 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2092 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2093 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2094
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2095* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2096 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2097 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2098 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2099 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2100
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2101* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2102 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2103 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2104 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2105 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2106
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2107* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2108 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2109 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2110 did not reflect that.
2111
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2112* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2113 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2114 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2115 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2116 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2117 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2118 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2119 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2120
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2121* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2122 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2123 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2124 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2125
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2126* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2127 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2128 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2129 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2130
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2131* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2132 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2133 guarantees.
2134
2135* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2136 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2137 make state changes.
2138
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2140
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2142 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2143 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2144 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2145 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
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2147* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2148 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2149 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2150 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2151 (CVE-2015-5180)
2152
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2154
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2155 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2156 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2157 protector-all
2158 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2159 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2160 before it started waiting
2161 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2162 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2163 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2164 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2165 wrong type
2166 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2167 library linked with pthread
2168 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2169 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2170 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2171 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2172 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2173 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2174 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2175 when it shouldnt
2176 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2177 not
2178 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2179 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2180 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2181 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2182 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2183 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2184 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2185 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2186 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2187 termination
2188 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2189 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2190 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2191 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2192 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2193 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2194 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2195 causes a segmentation fault
2196 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2197 linking
2198 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2199 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2200 uninitialized GOT
2201 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2202 versions
2203 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2204 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2205 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2206 is always true.
2207 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2208 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2209 modes
2210 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2211 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2212 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2213 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2214 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2215 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2216 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2217 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2218 libpthread.a
2219 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2220 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2221 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2222 _res_hconf
2223 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2224 information.
2225 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2226 penalty
2227 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2228 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2229 cause transition penalty
2230 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2231 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2232 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2233 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2234 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2235 mcount.oS)
2236 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2237 Checking
2238 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2239 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2240 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2241 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2242 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2243 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2244 multi-arch
2245 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2246 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2247 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2248 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2249 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2250 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2251 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2252 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2253 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2254 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2255 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2256 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2257 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2258 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2259 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2260 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2261 glibc
2262 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2263 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2264 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2265 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2266 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2267 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2268 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2269 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2270 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2271 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2272 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2273 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2274 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2275 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2276 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2277 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2278 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2279 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2280 RES_USE_INET6
2281 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2282 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2283 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2284 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2285 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2286 wrong condition
2287 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2288 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2289 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2290 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2291 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2292 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2293 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2294 clang
2295 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2296 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2297 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2298 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2299 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2300\f
11fca961
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2301Version 2.24
2302
5b4ecd3f
JM
2303* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2304 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2305 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2306 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2307 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2308 architectures.
2309
b6ebba70
MF
2310* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2311 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2312 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2313
7584a3f9
FW
2314* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2315 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2316
b49ab5f4
FW
2317* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2318 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2319 instead of “union wait”.
2320
ced8f893
SG
2321* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2322 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2323 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2324 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2325 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2326 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2327 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2328
2ba3cfa1
FW
2329* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2330 API.
2331
b7a9b7b0
MF
2332* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2333 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2334 drop it.
6a54bcda 2335
41a359e2
RS
2336* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2337 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2338 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2339 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2340 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2341 extensions.
2342
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2343Security related changes:
2344
f5b3338d
FW
2345* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2346 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2347 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2348
4ab2ab03
FW
2349* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2350 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2351 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2352 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2353
5171f307
FW
2354* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2355 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2356 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2357
bc779a1a
FW
2358* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2359 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2360 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2361
fab38231
FW
2362* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2363 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2364 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2365 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2366
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AZ
2367The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2368
3c4f81ec
CD
2369 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2370 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2371 of MS-DOS.
2372 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2373 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2374 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2375 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2376 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2377 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2378 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2379 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2380 CLDR data
2381 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2382 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2383 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2384 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2385 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2386 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2387 romanisation
2388 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2389 and +/-
2390 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2391 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2392 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2393 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2394 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2395 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2396 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2397 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2398 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2399 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2400 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2401 all locales
2402 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2403 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2404 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2405 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2406 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2407 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2408 execute
2409 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2410 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2411 -Wsystem-headers
2412 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2413 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2414 Romanian locale data
2415 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2416 symbol
2417 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2418 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2419 language
2420 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2421 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2422 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2423 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2424 machine
2425 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2426 description
2427 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2428 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2429 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2430 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2431 when using RTLD_NEXT
2432 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2433 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2434 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2435 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2436 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2437 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2438 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2439 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2440 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2441 Excavator core
2442 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2443 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2444 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2445 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2446 double range
2447 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2448 part zero incorrect
2449 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2450 equality tests
2451 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
2452 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
2453 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
2454 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
2455 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
2456 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
2457 glibc-2.22
2458 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
2459 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
2460 'tst-numeric.c'
2461 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
2462 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
2463 low part
2464 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
2465 result
2466 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
2467 unaligned stack
2468 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
2469 pointers and lengths in error-case.
2470 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
2471 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
2472 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
2473 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
2474 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
2475 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
2476 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
2477 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
2478 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
2479 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
2480 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
2481 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
2482 modes
2483 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
2484 server addresses
2485 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
2486 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
2487 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
2488 response to getaddrinfo
2489 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
2490 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
2491 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
2492 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
2493 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
2494 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
2495 sometimes incorrect
2496 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
2497 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
2498 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
2499 record types
2500 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
2501 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
2502 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
2503 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
2504 (CVE-2016-3075)
2505 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
2506 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
2507 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
2508 resolving symbols
2509 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
2510 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
2511 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
2512 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
2513 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
2514 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
2515 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
2516 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
2517 gethosts
2518 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
2519 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
2520 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
2521 (CVE-2016-3706)
2522 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
2523 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
2524 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
2525 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
2526 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
2527 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
2528 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
2529 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
2530 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
2531 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
2532 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
2533 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
2534 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
2535 executable
2536 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
2537 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
2538 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
2539 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
2540 XPG3
2541 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
2542 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
2543 (CVE-2016-4429)
2544 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
2545 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
2546 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
2547 AS not supporting AVX512
2548 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
2549 sNaN argument
2550 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2551 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
2552 argument
2553 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
2554 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
2555 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
2556 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
2557 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
2558 eax=0x80000001
2559 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
2560 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
2561 subnormals
2562 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
2563 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
2564 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
2565 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2566 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2567 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
2568 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2569 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
2570 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
2571 input
2572 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2573 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2574 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2575 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2576 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2577 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
2578 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
2579 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
2580 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
2581 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
2582 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
2583 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
2584 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
2585 double rounding
2586 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
2587 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
2588 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
2589 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
2590 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
2591 (Only arm/linux)
2592 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
2593 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
2594 fallbacks
2595 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
2596 "invalid" exceptions
2597 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
2598 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
2599 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
2600 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
2601 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
2602 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
2603 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
2604 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
2605 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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2607Version 2.23
2608
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2609* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2610 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
2611 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2612 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
2613 89, 16061, and 18568.
2614
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2615* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
2616 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
2617 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
2618 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
2619 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
2620 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
2621 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
2622
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2623* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
2624 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
2625 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
2626
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2627* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
2628 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
2629 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
2630 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
2631 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
2632 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
2633 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
2634
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2635* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
2636 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
2637 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
2638 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
2639 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 2640 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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2641 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
2642 Ericsson.)
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2644* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
2645 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
2646 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
2647 independent of the GNU C Library.
2648
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2649* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
2650 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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2652* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
2653 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
2654 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
2655 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
2656 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
2657 Linux kernel.
2658
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2659* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
2660 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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2662* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
2663 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
2664 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
2665 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
2666 defining their own copy.
2667
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2668* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2669 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2670 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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2672Security related changes:
2673
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2674* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
2675 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
2676
2677* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
2678 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
2679 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
2680 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
2681 (CVE-2015-8777)
2682
2683* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
2684 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
2685
2686* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
2687 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
2688
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2689* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
2690 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 2691 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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2693* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
2694 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
2695 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
2696 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
2697 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
2698 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
2699 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
2700 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
2701 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
2702 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
2703 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
2704 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
2705 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
2706
ad372e29 2707The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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2709 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
2710 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
2711 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2712 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
2713 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
2714 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
2715 use `mkstemp'
2716 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
2717 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
2718 overflow/underflow errors
2719 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
2720 overflow/underflow
2721 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
2722 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
2723 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
2724 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
2725 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
2726 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
2727 are not contiguous
2728 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
2729 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
2730 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
2731 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
2732 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
2733 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
2734 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
2735 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
2736 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
2737 all exceptions
2738 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
2739 arguments
2740 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
2741 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
2742 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
2743 should include
2744 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
2745 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
2746 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
2747 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
2748 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
2749 GNU/Linux
2750 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
2751 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
2752 arguments
2753 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
2754 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
2755 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
2756 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
2757 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
2758 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
2759 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
2760 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2761 rounding results
2762 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2763 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2764 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2765 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2766 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2767 fails
2768 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2769 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2770 block boundary
2771 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2772 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2773 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2774 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2775 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2776 4.7?
2777 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2778 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2779 (related to lock elision)
2780 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2781 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2782 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2783 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2784 (CVE-2015-8779)
2785 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2786 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2787 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2788 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2789 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2790 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2791 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2792 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2793 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2794 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2795 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2796 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2797 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2798 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2799 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2800 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2801 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2802 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2803 contains a vector instruction exception.
2804 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2805 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2806 locales
2807 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2808 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2809 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2810 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2811 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2812 missing break ?
2813 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2814 32bit processes
2815 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2816 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2817 infinity
2818 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2819 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2820 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2821 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2822 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2823 be forced unloaded
2824 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2825 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2826 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2827 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2828 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2829 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2830 statically too large
2831 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2832 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2833 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2834 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2835 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2836 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2837 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2838 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2839 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2840 FUTEX_SHARED
2841 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2842 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2843 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2844 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2845 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2846 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2847 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2848 opendir()
2849 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2850 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2851 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2852 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2853 signgam
2854 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2855 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2856 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2857 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2858 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2859 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2860 dependencies
2861 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2862 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2863 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2864 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2865 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2866 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2867 (CVE-2015-8776)
2868 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2869 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2870 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2871 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2872 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2873 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2874 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2875 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2876 contention
2877 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2878 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2879 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2880 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2881 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2882 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2883 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2884 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2885 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2886 rounding modes
2887 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2888 ILP32
2889 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2890 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2891 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2892 threshold
2893 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2894 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2895 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2896 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2897 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2898 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2899 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2900 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2901 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2902 pthread_setaffinity_np
2903 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2904 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2905 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2906 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2907 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2908 prelink
2909 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2910 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2911 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2912 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2913 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2914 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2915 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2916 bits/mathcalls.h
2917 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2918 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2919 for C99-based standards
2920 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2921 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2922 math-only
2923 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2924 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2925 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2926 disabled
2927 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2928 "inexact" exceptions
2929 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2930 arguments
2931 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2932 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2933 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2934 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2935 rules
2936 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2937 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2938 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2939 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2940 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2941 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2942 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2943 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2944 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2945 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2946 from 32bit
2947 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2948 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2949 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2950 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2951 subnormals
2952 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2953 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2954 error on 32-bit architectures
2955 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2956 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2957 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2958 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2959 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2960 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2961 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2962 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2963 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2964 -Os
2965 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2966 CPU's.
2967 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2968 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2969 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2970 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2971 architectures
2972 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2974Version 2.22
2975
2976* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2977
3df5cd98 2978 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2979 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2980 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2981 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2982 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2983 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2984 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2985 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2986 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2987 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2988 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2989 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2990 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2991 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2992 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2993 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2994 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2995 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2996 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2997 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2998
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2999* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3000 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3001
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3002* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3003 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3004 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3005 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3006 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3007 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3008
42261ad7
FW
3009* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3010 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3011 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3012 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3013 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3014
afcd9480
AM
3015* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3016 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3017 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3018
4a4839c9
AO
3019* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3020 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3021 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3022 17998.
3023
b13b96ca
AS
3024* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3025 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3026 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3027
3028* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3029 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3030 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3031 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3032 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3033 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3034 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3035 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3036
3037* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3038 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3039 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3040 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3041
3042* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3043 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3044 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3045
3046* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3047 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3048
3049* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3050 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3051 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3052
a03ba363 3053 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3054 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3055 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3056\f
58b930ae
SP
3057Version 2.21
3058
3059* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3060
042e1521 3061 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3062 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3063 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3064 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3065 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3066 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3067 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3068 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3069 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3070 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3071 17892.
3072
46d54873
FW
3073* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3074 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3075 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3076 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3077 intended.
042e1521
CD
3078
3079* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3080 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3081 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3082 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3083 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3084 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3085
522e6ee3
CLT
3086* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3087
d3b00f46
AZ
3088* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3089 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3090 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3091
8d2c0a59
AZ
3092* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3093 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3094 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3095 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3096 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3097 effects being visible outside transactions.
3098
dc400d7b
RE
3099* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3100 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3101
0f9dfe04
L
3102* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3103
a39208bd
CD
3104* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3105 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3106 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3107 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3108 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3109
a5357b7c
JL
3110* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3111 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3112
e54db0ea
AM
3113* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3114 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3115 format.
11e3417a 3116
4863355a
JM
3117* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3118 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3119 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3120
a4ecc9eb
JM
3121* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3122 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3123
0d560bbf 3124* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3125
3126* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3127 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3128 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3129 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3130
3131* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3132 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3133
3134* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3135 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3136 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3137 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3138 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3139 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3140 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3141 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3142 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3143 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3144 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3145 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3146 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3147
3148 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3149 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3150 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3151 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3152 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3153\f
d5b396c1
AM
3154Version 2.20
3155
3156* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3157
6a9350c8
JM
3158 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3159 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3160 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3161 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3162 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3163 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3164 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3165 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3166 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3167 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3168 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3169 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3170 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3171 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3172 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3173
95ee7fb1
SL
3174* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3175 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3176 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3177 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3178 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3179 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3180 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3181 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3182 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3183 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3184
0961f7e1
JL
3185* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3186 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3187 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3188 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3189 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3190
f940b965
RE
3191* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3192
d0f5b3f8
JM
3193* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3194 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3195
d6fe5e58
JM
3196* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3197 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3198 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3199 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3200 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3201 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3202
464263cc
JM
3203* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3204 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3205
3206* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3207 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3208 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3209 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3210 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3211 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3212 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3213
3214* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3215
3216* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3217 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3218 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3219 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3220 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3221 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3222 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3223
3224* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3225 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3226 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3227 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3228 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3229
3230* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3231 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3232 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3233
3234* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3235 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3236 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3237 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3238
3239* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3240 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3241 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3242 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3243 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3244 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3245 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3246 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3247
3248* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3249 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3250 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3251 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3252 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3253 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3254 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3255 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3256 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3257
3258* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3259 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3260 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3261 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3262 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3263 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3264
3265* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3266 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3267 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3268 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3269\f
3270Version 2.19
3271
3272* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3273
fd2f9486
JM
3274 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3275 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3276 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3277 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3278 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3279 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3280 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3281 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3282 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3283 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3284 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3285 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3286 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3287 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3288 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3289 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3290 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3291 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3292
11520a57
CD
3293* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3294 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3295
2fe16229
CD
3296* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3297 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3298 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3299 extension which uses __block.
3300
303e567a
SP
3301* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3302 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3303 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3304 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3305 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3306
141f3a77
SP
3307* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3308 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3309 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3310 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3311 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3312
3313* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3314 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3315 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3316 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3317 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3318
3319* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3320 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3321 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3322
ba0d798c
WN
3323* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3324 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3325 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3326 #15856, #15857).
3327
7cbcdb36
SP
3328* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3329 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3330
82bab04b 3331* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3332 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3333
c5f840fd
MB
3334* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3335
3e181dda
CD
3336* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3337 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3338
3e181dda 3339* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3340
8a05c252
CL
3341* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3342
6055173a
JM
3343* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3344 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3345 for which the C library was built.
3346
b125d3e5
JM
3347* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3348 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3349 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3350 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3351 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3352 in the following circumstances:
3353
3354 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3355
3356 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3357 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3358
d4f66d37
JM
3359* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3360 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3361
3e181dda
CD
3362* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3363 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3364
ffb89e53
AO
3365* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3366
5d29ccce
SP
3367* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3368 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3369
8b7d57cd 3370* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
3371
3372* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3373
fd712ef3 3374* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3375
c688b419
JM
3376* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3377 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3378 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3379 disable some of those declarations.
3380
7011c262 3381* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
3382 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3383 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
3384
3385* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3386 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
3387
3388* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3389 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3390 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3391 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3392 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3393 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3394 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3395 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3396 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3397 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3398 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3399 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3400 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
3401\f
3402Version 2.18
3403
3404* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3405
17db6e8d 3406 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3407 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3408 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
3409 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3410 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3411 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3412 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3413 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3414 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3415 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3416 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3417 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3418 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3419 15755, 15759.
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3420
3421* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3422 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3423 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3424 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3425 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3426 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3427
5b535ac4
AS
3428* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3429 #15078).
3430
1cef1b19
AS
3431* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3432 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3433
55e4107b
SP
3434* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3435 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3436 destructor calls to glibc.
3437
e5c74c63
SP
3438* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3439 output.
3440
3441* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3442 non-x86 architectures.
3443
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JM
3444* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3445
3446* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3447
3448* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3449 Richard Henderson.
3450
3451* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3452
3453* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
3454 Richard Henderson.
3455
3456* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
3457 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3458
8cfdb7e0
SP
3459* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
3460
57267616
TS
3461* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
3462 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 3463
c204ab28
SP
3464* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
3465 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 3466
0748546f
PE
3467* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
3468 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
3469 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
3470
61dd6208
SP
3471* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
3472 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
3473 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
3474
3475* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
3476 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
3477 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
3478 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
3479 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
3480
3481* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
3482 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
3483
3484* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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3485\f
3486Version 2.17
3487
3488* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3489
80ceeaee 3490 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
3491 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
3492 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
3493 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
3494 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
3495 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
3496 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
3497 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
3498 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
3499 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
3500 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
3501 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
3502 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
3503 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
3504 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 3505
95b4f1b6
SE
3506* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
3507
14bc93a9
JL
3508* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
3509 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 3510
b54eb3cb
JM
3511* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
3512 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
3513
7e2bd01f
MS
3514* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
3515
08f43f9b
AK
3516* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
3517 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
3518 zEnterprise z196.
3519 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3520
84b3fd84
FW
3521* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
3522 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
3523 the internal function __secure_getenv.
3524
815e6fa3
GB
3525* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
3526 Implemented by Gary Benson.
3527
400726de
MK
3528* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
3529 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
3530
7aab07e4 3531* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 3532 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 3533
15d0da8c
WS
3534* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
3535 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
3536
3cc3ef96
RM
3537* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
3538 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
3539 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
3540 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 3541
b54eb3cb
JM
3542* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
3543 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
3544
85429b1a 3545* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 3546 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
3547 default.
3548
b54eb3cb
JM
3549* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
3550 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
3551 information in --help and --version output.
3552
050af9c4
SP
3553* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
3554 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
3555 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
3556
89a3ad0b
AO
3557* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
3558 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
3559 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
3560 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
3561 when the mode is enabled.
3562
6e6249d0
RM
3563* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
3564 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
3565 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
3566 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
3567 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
3568 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
3569 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 3570
d9286582
NK
3571* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
3572 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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3573\f
3574Version 2.16
3575
3576* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3577
a8133e19
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3578 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
3579 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
3580 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
3581 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
3582 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
3583 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
3584 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
3585 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
3586 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
3587 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
3588 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
3589 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
3590 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
3591 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
3592 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
3593 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
3594 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
3595 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
3596 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
3597 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
3598 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
3599 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
3600 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 3601
a086b4d6
L
3602* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
3603 configuring glibc with:
3604 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
3605 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
3606 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3607
380d7e87
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3608* ISO C11 support:
3609
3610 + define static_assert
3611
3612 + do not declare gets
3613
3614 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
3615
3616 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
3617 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
3618 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
3619 implementation.
8d44e150 3620
74033a25 3621 + timespec_get added
544563c9
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3622
3623 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 3624
ac097f5c
UD
3625 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
3626
16dd419d
UD
3627 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3628
9dc4e1fb 3629* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
3630
3631* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
3632
3633* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
3634 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
3635
3636* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
3637 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
3638
3639* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
3640 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
3641 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
3642 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
3643 existing applications.
ffb7875d 3644
21708942 3645* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
3646 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
3647 before 2.6.
83678f76 3648
edb00e4d
RH
3649* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
3650 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
3651 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
3652
83678f76 3653* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
3654
3655* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
3656 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
3657 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
3658 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
3659 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
3660
3661* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3662
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3663* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
3664 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
3665
3666* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
3667
3668* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
3669 without a previously built glibc.
3670
3671* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
3672 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
3673
3674* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
3675 now supported for ARM processors.
3676
3677* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
3678 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
3679 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
3680
3681* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
3682
3683* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
3684 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
3685 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
3686 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
3687
3688* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
3689 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
3690 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
3691 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
3692
3693* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
3694 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
3695 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
3696 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
3697 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
3698
3699* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
3700 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
3701 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
3702 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 3703\f
e80fab37 3704Version 2.15
11988f8f 3705
c0244a9d
UD
3706* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3707
aebae053
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3708 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
3709 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
3710 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
3711 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
3712 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
3713 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
3714 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 3715
11988f8f
UD
3716* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
3717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
3718
3719* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
3720 and support for initgroups lookups.
3721 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
3722
3723* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
3724 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
3725
3726* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
3727 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 3728
fc2ee42a
LD
3729* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
3730 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 3731 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 3732
d42964a0 3733* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
3734 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3735
1d3e4b61
UD
3736* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
3737 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
3738 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
3739
c55fbd1e
UD
3740* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
3741 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
UD
3742
3743* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
3744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
3745
3746* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
3747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
3748
3749* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
3750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
3751
3752* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
3753 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3754
3755* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
3756 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
UD
3757
3758* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
3759
3760* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 3762
f0b264f1
AZ
3763* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3764 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3765
6b64057b 3766* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 3767\f
dded88cd 3768Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 3769
50934221
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3770* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3771
553149f6 3772 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3773 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3774 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3775 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3776 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
3777 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3778 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3779 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3780 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3781 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 3782
7b57bfe5
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3783* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
3784 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3785 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3786 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3787
3788 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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3789 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3790 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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3791 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3792
c6489db3 3793* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3794 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3795
72d1dddb 3796* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3797 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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3798
3799* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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3800
3801* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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3803
3804* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3805 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3806 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3807 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 3808\f
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3809Version 2.13
3810
ac2b484c
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3811* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3812
c30b7ee2
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3813 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3814 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3815 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3816 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3817 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3818
10b3bedc 3819* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3820
ac2b484c 3821* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3822
e9f82e0d
UD
3823* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3824 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3825 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 3826\f
ee1a7fab
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3827Version 2.12
3828
d36b9613
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3829* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3830
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3831 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3832 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3833 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3834 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3835 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3836 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3837 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3838 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3840* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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3842* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3843
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3844* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3845
3846* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3847 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3849
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3850* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3851 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3852 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3853 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3854 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3855
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3859
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3861
3862 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3863 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3864 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3865 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3866 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3867 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3868
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3870 mkostemps64
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3872
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3874 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3875
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3876* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3877 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3878
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3879* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3880
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9d36a6c4 3882 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3883 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3885
9d36a6c4 3886 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3888
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3889* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3890 strstr, strcasestr.
3891 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3892
3893* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3894 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3895
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3896* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3897 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3898
3899* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3900 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3901
3902* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3903 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3904 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3905 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3906 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3907 necessity is every process again.
3908 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3909
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3911 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3912
3913* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3914 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3915
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3916* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3917 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3918 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3919
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3923
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3924* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3925
3926 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3927 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3928 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3929 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3930 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3931
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3933 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3934
425ce2ed 3935* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3936 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3937
1fdd89a7 3938* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3939 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3942 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 3944* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3947* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3949
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3950* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3951 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3952
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3953* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3954 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3955
3956* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3957 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3959
735be400 3960* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 3962* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3963 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3964
3965* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3966 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3967 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3968
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3969* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3970 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3971
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3972* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3973 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3974 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3975 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3976 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3979Version 2.9
3980
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3982
3983 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3984 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3985 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3986 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3987 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3988
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3991
3992* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3993 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3995* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3996 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3998* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3999 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4001
4002* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4003 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4007* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4008 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4010* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4011 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4012 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4013 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4014
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4015* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4016 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4019 Sinhala)
48b22986 4020 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4022* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4025
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4027
4028 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4029 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4030 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4031 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4032 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4033 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4034 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4035
e038616f 4036* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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4039
4040* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4041 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4042
4043* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4044
4045* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4046 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4047
4048* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4050
4051* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4052 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4053 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4054
4055* Faster memset for x86-64.
4056 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4057
4058* Faster memcpy on x86.
4059 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4060
4061* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4062 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4064* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4065 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4067Version 2.7
4068
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4070
4071 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4072 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4073 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4074 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4075 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4076
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4077* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4078 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4079
4080* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4081
4082* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4083 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4084 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4085
4086* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4087 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4088
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4090 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4091
4092* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4093
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4094* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4096
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4097* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4098 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4099
4100* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4101 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4102
4103* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4104
4105* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4106 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4108* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4109 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4110 yo_NG.
4111
4112+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4113 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4118
4119 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4120 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4121 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4122 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4123 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4124 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4125 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4126 4702, 4858
4127
bce20b9a 4128* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4131
b21fa963 4132* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4134Version 2.5
4135
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4137
4138 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4139 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4140 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4141 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4142 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4143 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4144 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4145 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4146 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4147
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4149 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4150 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4152* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4154
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4156
4157* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4159* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4160 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4161 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
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4163 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4164
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4166 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4167 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4169
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4171 Ulrich Drepper.
4172
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4173* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4174
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4175* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4176 Ulrich Drepper.
4177
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4178* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4179
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4180* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4181 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4184
4185* More overflow detection functions.
4186
4187* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4188 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4190 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4191 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4192 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4193 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4194 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4195 by Masahide Washizawa.
4196
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4198 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4200* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4201 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4202 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4203 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4205* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4206 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4207
4208* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4209
4210* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4211 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4212 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4213
4214* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4215 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4216
4217* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4218 for compatibility with some other systems.
4219
4220* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4222Version 2.3.6
4223
4224* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4225
4226 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4227 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4228 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4229 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4230 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4231 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4232
5a82c748 4233 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4235* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4236
4237* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4240
4241* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4242
4243 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4244 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4245 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4246 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4247
5a82c748 4248 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4251
4252* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4254
4255* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4256 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4257 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4258
4259* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4260 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4261
0325dd20 4262* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4263 efficiently.
4264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4265
4266* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4267 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4268 handling data.
4269
4270* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4271 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4272 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4273
4274* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4275 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4276
4277* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4278 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4279 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4280 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4281
4282* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4283 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4284 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4285 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4286
4287* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4288 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4289 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4290 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4291 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4293Version 2.3.3
4294
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4295* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4296 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4297
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4298* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4299 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 4300
69be6aaf 4301* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4302 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4303
4304* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4305 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4306
4307* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4308 by Roland McGrath.
4309
c5af724c 4310* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4311 and Ulrich Drepper.
4312
4313* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4314 RFC 3484.
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4316Version 2.3.2
4317
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4318* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4319 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4320 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4321 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4322 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4323 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4324 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4325 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4326 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4327
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4328* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4329 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4330 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4331
4332* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4333
4334* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4335 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 4336
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4337* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4338 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4339
52a16e58 4340* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
f9ad060c 4341
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4342* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4343 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4344
4345* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4346 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4347 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4348 of weak definition in ld.so.
4349
4350* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4351 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4352
4353* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4354 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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37fb1084 4357
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4358* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4359 charsets.
4360
4361* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4362 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4363
bb0ec5bd 4364* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4365 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4366
4367* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4368 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4369
bb0ec5bd 4370* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4371 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4372 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4373
4374* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4375 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4376
bb0ec5bd 4377* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4378 implementation of regex.
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4379
4380* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4381 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 4382
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4383* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4384 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 4385
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4386* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4387 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4388 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4389
4390* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4391 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4392
4393* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4394 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4395 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4396
4397* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4398 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4399
4400* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4401 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4402 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4403
4404* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4406Version 2.2.6
4407
4408* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4409 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4410
4411* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4412 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4414Version 2.2.5
4415
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4416* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4417 128-bit long double format.
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4419* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4420 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4421
ad2e4f18 4422* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 4423
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4424* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4425
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4426* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4427 as well.
4428
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4429* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4430 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4431
4432* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4434Version 2.2.4
4435
2995f70e 4436* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4437 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4438
4439* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4440 support Unicode 3.1.
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4441
4442* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4443 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4444
69d5f925 4445* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4446
69d5f925 4447* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4448 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4449 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4450
4451* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
4452 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
4453
4454* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
4455 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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4456
4457* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 4458\f
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4459Version 2.2.3
4460
1746f2b0 4461* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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4462 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
4463 in float, double, and long double format.
4464
f128331c 4465* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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4466 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
4467 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 4468
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4469* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
4470 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
4471 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
4472 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
4473
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4474* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
4475 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
4476 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4477
4478* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
4479 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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4480
4481* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
4482 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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4483
4484* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
4485 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
4486 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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4487
4488* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
4489 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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4490
4491* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
4492 of functions for Linux/x86.
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4493
4494* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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4496Version 2.2.2
4497
464d97ec 4498* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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4499 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
4500 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
4501 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
4502 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
4503 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
4504 other headers.
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4505
4506* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
4507 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
4508
4509* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
4510 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
4511 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
4512 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4513
4514* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
4515 locales. While
4516
4517 locale -a
4518
4519 only lists the names of the supported locales
4520
4521 locale -a --verbose
4522
4523 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
4524 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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4526Version 2.2.1
4527
4528* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
4529 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
4530 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
4531 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
4532 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
4533
4534 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
4535
4536 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
4537
4538 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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4539
4540* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
4541 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
4542 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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4543
4544* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
4545 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
4546
4547* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
4548 changed from the default "C" locale.
4549
4550* The usual bug fixes.
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4552Version 2.2
4553
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4554* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
4555 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
4556 is in progress.
4557
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4558* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
4559
793bd4d9 4560* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 4561
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4562 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
4563 obviously requires a database library being available.
4564
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4565* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4566
abbffdf9 4567* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 4568
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4569* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
4570 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
4571
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4572* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
4573
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4574* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
4575 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
4576 and Mark Kettenis.
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4577
4578 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
4579 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
4580 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 4581
a00c3ca9 4582 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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4583 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
4584
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4585* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
4586 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
4587 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
4588
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4589* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
4590 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
4591 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
4592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4593
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4594 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
4595 structures for the wide character tables.
4596
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4597* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4598
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4599* The utmp daemon has been removed.
4600
4601* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
4602
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4603* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
4604 and Yutaka Niibe.
4605
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4606* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
4607
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4608* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
4609
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4610* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4611
4612* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
4613
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4614* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
4615
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4616* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
4617 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
4618 implemented for Linux.
4619
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4620* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
4621 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
4622 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
4623 versions.
4624
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4625* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
4626 Masahide Washizawa.
4627
8f3f1e09 4628* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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4629\f
4630Version 2.1.3
4631
4632* bug fixes
4633
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4635Version 2.1.2
4636
4637* bug fixes
4638
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4640Version 2.1.1
4641
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4642* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
4643
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4644* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
4645
407d26b7 4646* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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4647
4648* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
4649
407d26b7 4650* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 4651
407d26b7 4652* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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4653
4654* Update timezone data files.
27995311 4655
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4656* lots of charmaps corrections
4657
4658* some new locale definitions and charmaps
4659
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4661Version 2.1
4662
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4663* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
4664 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
4665 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
4666 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
4667 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
4668 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
4669
c84142e8 4670* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 4671 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 4672
1fb05e3d 4673* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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4674 symbol level.
4675
4676* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
4677 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 4678
cbdee279 4679* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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4680
4681* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 4682 numbers.
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cbdee279 4684* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 4685
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4686* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
4687 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 4688
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4689* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
4690 library.
4691
e61abf83 4692* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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4693 functions from ISO C 9X.
4694
4695* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
4696 real valued functions.
e61abf83 4697
a5a0310d 4698* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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4700* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
4701
4702* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 4703
440d13e2 4704* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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4705
4706* Optimized string functions have been added.
4707
4708* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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4709
4710* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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4712* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
4713 daemon for NSS (nscd).
4714
4715 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
4716 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
4717
0dee6738 4718 user system wall
48244d09 4719
0dee6738 4720 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 4721
0dee6738 4722 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 4723
0dee6738 4724 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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4726 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
4727
4728 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
4729
4730 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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4732 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
4733 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
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4736 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
4737 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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4739* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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4740
4741* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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4742
4743* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
4744 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
4745
4746* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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4748* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
4749 Bambrough.
4750
4751* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
4752 latest draft standards.
4753
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4754* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
4755
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4756* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
4757~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 4759alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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4760argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4761argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4762argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4763argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4764argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4765argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4766argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4767argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4768argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4769argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4771authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4772authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4774backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4775backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4776cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4777cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4778cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4779cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4780cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4781cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4782capget NEW: kernel
4783capset NEW: kernel
4784carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4785cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4786cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4787casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4788casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4789casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4790casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4791casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4792casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4793catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4794catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4795catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4796catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4797catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4798catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4799cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4801ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4802ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4803ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4804ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4805ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4806cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4807cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4808cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4809cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4810cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4811cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4812clearerr_locked REMOVED
4813clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4814clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4815clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4816clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4817clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4818clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4819clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4820conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4821conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4822conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4823cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4824cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4825cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4826cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4827cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4828cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4829creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4830crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4831creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4832creat64 NEW: LFS
4833csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4834csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4835csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4836csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4837csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4838csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4839csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4840csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4841csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4842ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4843ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4844ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4845ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4846ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4847ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4849ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4850endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4852exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4853exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4854exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4855exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4856exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4857fattach NEW: STREAMS
4858fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4859fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4860fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4861fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4862feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4863fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4864fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4865fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4866feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4867feof_locked REMOVED
4868feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4869ferror_locked REMOVED
4870fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4871fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4872fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4873fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4874feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4875fflush_locked REMOVED
4876ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4877ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4878fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4879fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4880fileno_locked REMOVED
4881fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4882fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4883fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4884fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4885fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4886fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4887fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4888fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4889fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4890fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4892fputc_locked REMOVED
4893fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4894fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4895freopen64 NEW: LFS
4896fseeko NEW: Unix98
4897fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4898fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4899fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4900fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4901ftello NEW: Unix98
4902ftello64 NEW: LFS
4903ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4904ftw64 NEW: LFS
4905fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4906gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4907gamma_r REMOVED
4908gammaf_r REMOVED
4909gammal_r REMOVED
4910getchar_locked REMOVED
4911getdate NEW: Unix98
4912getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4913getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4914getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4915getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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4918getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4919getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4921getutxid NEW: Unix98
4922getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4924globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4925gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4926gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4927grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4928host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4930iconv_close NEW: iconv
4931iconv_open NEW: iconv
4932if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4933if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4934if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4935if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4936in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4937in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4938inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4939isastream NEW: STREAMS
4940iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4942key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4943key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4944key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4945key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4946key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4947key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4948key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4949key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4951llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4952llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4953llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4954llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4955llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4956log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4957log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4958log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4959lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4960lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4961lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4962lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4963lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4964lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4965lseek64 NEW: LFS
4966makecontext NEW: Unix98
4967mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4968mmap64 NEW: LFS
4969moncontrol REMOVED
4970modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4971nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4972nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4973nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4974nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4975nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4976nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4978netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4980nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4981nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4983nftw64 NEW: LFS
4984open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4985passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4987pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4988pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4989pread NEW: Unix98
4990pread64 NEW: LFS
4991printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4992printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4993profil_counter REMOVED
4994pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4995pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4996ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4997ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4998putc_locked REMOVED
4999putchar_locked REMOVED
5000putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5001putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5002putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5003pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5005pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5006readdir64 NEW: LFS
5007readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5008remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5009remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5010remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5011round NEW: ISO C 9x
5012roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5013roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5014rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5015scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5016scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5017scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5018scandir64 NEW: LFS
5019sendfile NEW: kernel
5020setcontext NEW: Unix98
5021setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5022setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5024sigignore NEW: Unix98
5025sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5026sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5027sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5028sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5029sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5030sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5031sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5032sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5033statfs64 NEW: LFS
5034statvfs NEW: Unix98
5035statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5036strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5038strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5039strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5040svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5042svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5043swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5044tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5045tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5046tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5047tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5048tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5049tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5050trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5051truncate64 NEW: LFS
5052truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5053truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5054umount2 NEW: kernel
5055unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5056updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5057user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5058utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5059versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5060versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5061waitid NEW: Unix98
5062wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5063wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5064wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5065wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5066wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5067wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5068wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5069wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5070wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5071wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5072write_profiling REMOVED
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5074xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5075xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5076xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5077xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5078xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5079xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5080xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5081xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5082xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5083xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5084xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5085xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5086xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 5088~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5090Version 2.0.6
5091
5092* more bug fixes
5093
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5094\f
5095Version 2.0.5
5096
5097* more bug fixes
5098
5099* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5100
5101* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5102
5103* rewrite of cbrt function
5104
5105* update of timezone data
5106\f
5107Version 2.0.4
5108
5109* more bug fixes
5110\f
5111Version 2.0.3
5112
5113* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5114\f
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5115Version 2.0.2
5116
5117* more bug fixes
5118
5119* add atoll function
5120
5121* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5122
5123* fix math functions
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5124\f
5125Version 2.0.1
5126
5127* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5128
5129* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5130
5131* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5132 the ELF dynamic loader.
5133
5134* support for parallel builds is improved
5135\f
40a4b79f 5136Version 2.0
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5138* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5139 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5140 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5141
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5142* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5143 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5144 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5145 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5146 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5147 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5148 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5149 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5150 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5151 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5152 files in the ELF format.
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5153
5154* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5155 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5156
5157* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5158 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5159 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5160 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5161 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5162 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5163 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5164 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5165 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5166 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5167 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5169* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5170 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5171 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5172 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5173 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5174
f7eac6eb 5175* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5176 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5177 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5178 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5179 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5180
5181* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5183* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5184 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5185 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5186 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5187 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5188 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5189 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5190 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5191 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5192
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5193* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5194 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5195 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5196
5197* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5198 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5199 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5200
5201* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5202 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5203 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5204 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5205
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5206* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5207 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5208 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5209
5210* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5211 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5212 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5213
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5214* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5215 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5216
f7eac6eb 5217* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5218 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5219 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5220 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5221
5222* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5223 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5224 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5225
71733723 5226* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5227 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5228 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5229 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5230 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5231 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5232 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5233 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5234
5235* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5236 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5237 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5238 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5239 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5240 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5241 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5242
5243* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5244 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5245 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5246 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5247 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5248 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5249
5250* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5251 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5252
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5253* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5254 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5255 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5257* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5258
5259* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5260 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5261 their use is discouraged.
5262
5263* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5264 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5266* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5267 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5268
5269* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5270 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5271
5272* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5273 see <dirent.h>.
5274
5275* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5276 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5277 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5278 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5279 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5280
5281* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5282 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5283 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5284 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5285
5286* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5287 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5288
5289* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5290 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5291 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5292 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5293 number generator.
5294
5295* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5296 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5297
5298* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5299 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5300
71733723 5301* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5302 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5303 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5304 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 5305
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5306* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5307
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5308* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5309 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5310 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5311
5312* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5313 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5315* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5316 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5317 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5318 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5319
5320* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5321 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5322 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5323 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5324 programs already written to use it.)
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5325
5326* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5327 constants.
5328
5329* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5330 with 4.4 BSD.
5331
5332* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5333 a given effective group ID.
5334
5335* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5336 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5337 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5338 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5339
5340* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5341 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5342 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5343 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5344 doing the same thing.
5345
5346* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5347 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5348
5349* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5350 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5351
5352* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5353
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5354* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5355 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5356 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5357 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5358 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5359
5360* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5361 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5362
5363* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5364 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5365 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5366 function.
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5367
5368* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5369
5370* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5371 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5372 strings.
5373
5374* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5375 and writing the utmp file.
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5376
5377* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5378 Thorsten Kukuk.
5379
5380* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5381 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5382 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5383
5384* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5385 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5386
5387* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5388 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5389 specification.
5390
5391* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5392 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5393 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5394 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5395
5396* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5397 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5398 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5399
5400* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5401 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5402 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5403 expression matcher.
5404
5405* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5406 functionality.
5407
5408* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5409 by Ulrich Drepper.
5410
5411* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5412
5413* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5414 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5415 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5417Version 1.09
5418
5419* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5420
5421* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5422 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5423
5424* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5425 want to put themselves in the background.
5426
5427* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5428 run without an operating system.
5429
5430* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5431 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5432
5433* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5434 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5435
5436* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5437
5438* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5439 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5440 have YP (aka NIS).
5441
5442* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5443 conventions.
5444
5445* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5446 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5447\f
5448Version 1.08
5449
5450* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5451 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
5452 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
5453
5454* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
5455 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
5456
5457* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
5458 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
5459
5460* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
5461
5462* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
5463
5464* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
5465 compatibility.
5466
5467* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
5468 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
5469 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
5470
5471* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
5472
5473* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
5474 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
5475 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
5476
5477* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
5478 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
5479 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
5480 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
5481 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
5482 on a block).
5483
5484* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
5485 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
5486 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
5487 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
5488 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
5489 cross-compiler.
5490
5491* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
5492 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
5493\f
5494Version 1.07
5495
5496* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
5497 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
5498
5499* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
5500 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
5501 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
5502
5503* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
5504 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
5505 address of the last character written.
5506
5507* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
5508 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
5509
5510* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
5511 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
5512
5513* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
5514 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
5515 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
5516 you dereference this pointer.
5517
5518* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
5519 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
5520
5521* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
5522 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
5523 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
5524 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
5525
5526* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
5527 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
5528 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
5529 EAGAIN in every system call function.
5530\f
5531Version 1.06
5532
5533* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
5534 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
5535 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
5536 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 5537 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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5539* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
5540
5541* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
5542
5543* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
5544 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
5545
5546* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
5547 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
5548
5549* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
5550 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
5551
5552* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
5553 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
5554 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
5555 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
5556 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
5557
5558* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
5559 to the error code in `errno'.
5560
5561* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
5562 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
5563 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
5564 malloc'd string.
5565
5566* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
5567 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
5568 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
5569
5570* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
5571 uniquely-named temporary file.
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5573Version 1.05
5574
5575* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
5576 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
5577 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
5578
5579* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
5580 characters.
5581
5582* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
5583 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
5584
5585* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
5586\f
5587Version 1.04
5588
5589* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
5590 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
5591 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
5592 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
5593
5594* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
5595 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
5596 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
5597
5598* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
5599 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
5600
5601* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
5602 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
5603 made itself into a shared library.
5604
5605* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
5606 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
5607
5608* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
5609 with limited length.
5610
5611* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
5612
5613* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
5614
5615* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
5616
5617* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
5618 function for traversing a directory tree.
5619
5620* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
5621 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
5622 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
5623 formatted output directly to an obstack.
5624
5625* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
5626 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
5627
5628* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
5629
5630* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
5631 things to your strings.
5632
5633* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
5634
5635* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
5636 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
5637 supporting those systems.
5638
5639* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
5640 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
5641 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
5642 configuration files.
5643
5644* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
5645 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
5646
5647* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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5649 in <strings.h>.)
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5650
5651* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
5652 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
5653 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
5654 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
5655 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
5656 required storage is not available.
5657
5658* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
5659 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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5661* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
5662 latest files released from Berkeley.
5663\f
5664----------------------------------------------------------------------
5665Copyright information:
5666
c9123888 5667Copyright (C) 1992-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5668
5669 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
5670 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
5671 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
5672 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
5673
5674 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
5675 of this document, or of portions of it,
5676 under the above conditions, provided also that they
5677 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
5678\f
5679Local variables:
5680version-control: never
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