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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
dff8da6b 2Copyright (C) 1992-2024 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 2.39
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10Major new features:
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12* Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
13 configure option in only supported on x86-64.
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92861d93 15* struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
16 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
17 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
18 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
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20* On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
21 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
22 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
23 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
24 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
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26* On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
27 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
28 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
29 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
30 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
31 posix_spawn interface.
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33* On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
34 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
35 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
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37* scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
38 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
39 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
40 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
41 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
42 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
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44* A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
45 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
46 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
47 malloc).
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49* The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
50 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
51 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
52 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
53 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
54 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
55 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
56 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
57
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58* On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
59 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
60 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
61 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
62 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
63 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
64
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65Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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67* The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
68 ".tmp", to avoid examining temporary files created by the RPM and dpkg
69 package managers.
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71* libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
72 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
73 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
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74 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
75 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
76 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
77 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
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79 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
80 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
81 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
82 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
83
84 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
85 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
86 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
87 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
88 simplified.
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90* The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
91
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92Changes to build and runtime requirements:
93
cb7954c4 94* Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
95 instructions.
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96
97Security related changes:
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99The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
100found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
101
102 [The release manager will add the list generated by
103 scripts/process-fixed-cves.sh just before the release.]
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105The following bugs are resolved with this release:
106
107 [The release manager will add the list generated by
108 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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110Version 2.38
111
112Major new features:
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114* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
115 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
116 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
117 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
118 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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119 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
120 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
121 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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122 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
123 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
124 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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126* PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
127 <inttypes.h>.
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129* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
130 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
131 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
132 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
133 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
134 specified in draft ISO C2X.
135
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136* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
137 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
138
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139* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
140 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
141
142 - x86_64-gnu
143
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144* Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
145 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
146 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
147 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
148 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
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150* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
151 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
152
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153* A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
154 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
155 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
156 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
157 original behavior unchanged.
158
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159Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
160
d5e321d1 161* libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
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162 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
163 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
164 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
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166* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
167 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
168 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
169 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
170 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
171 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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653433cd 173* The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
36f2487f 174 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
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175 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
176
653433cd 177* The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
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178 feature is now always enabled.
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180Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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182* Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
183 ACLE.
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184
185Security related changes:
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187 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
188 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
189 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
190 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
191 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
192 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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193
194The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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196 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
197 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
198 threads and stdio
199 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
200 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
201 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
202 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
203 intXX_t
204 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
205 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
206 argument
207 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
208 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
209 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
210 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
211 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
212 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
213 systems
214 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
215 symlink for libraries without soname
216 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
217 Clang
218 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
219 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
220 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
221 profiling data correctly
222 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
223 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
224 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
225 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
226 unnecessarily
227 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
228 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
229 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
230 early startup
231 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
232 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
233 on clang
234 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
235 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
236 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
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238Version 2.37
239
240Major new features:
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242* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
243 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
244 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
245 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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246
247Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
248
90d58fe8 249* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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250 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
251 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
252 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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254Security related changes:
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256 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
257 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
258 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
259 portion of the contents of the heap.
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260
261The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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263 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
264 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
265 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
266 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
267 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
268 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
269 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
270 redirection headers
271 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
272 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
273 first if in a cycle
274 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
275 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
276 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
277 gethostbyname and other functions
278 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
279 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
280 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
281 wrong family
282 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
283 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
284 failed!
285 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
286 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
287 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
288 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
289 segfault on alpha
290 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
291 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
292 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
293 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
294 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
295 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
296 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
297 reuses namespace
298 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
299 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
300 futexes on qemu-user
301 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
302 printed
303 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
304 whitespace
305 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
306 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
307 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
308 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
309 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
310 file support
311 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
312 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
313 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
314 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
315 cache is enabled
316 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
317 BMI2 instructions
318 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
319 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
320 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
321 platforms
322 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
323 optimizations
324 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
325 thousands grouping
326 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
327 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
328 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
329 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
330 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
331 aux.S: No such file or directory)
332 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
333 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
334 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
335 coincides with offset change
336 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
337 length in fortify mode
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339Version 2.36
340
341Major new features:
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343* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
344 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
345 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
346 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
347 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
348 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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351 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 352 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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354* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
355 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
356 by the pidfd.
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359 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
360 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
361 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
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364 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
365 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
366 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
367 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
368 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
369 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
370 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
371 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
372 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
373 validation by applications.
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376 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
377 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
378 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 379 with namespaces.
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381* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
382 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
383 unpredictable output.
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385* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
386 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
387 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
388 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
389 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
390 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
391 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
392 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
393
6f4e0fcf 394* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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395 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
396 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 398* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
399 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
400 ABI is supported:
401
402 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
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404 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
405
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406Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
407
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408* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
409 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
410 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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412* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
413 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
414 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
415 when libc.so is issued directly.
416
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417* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
418
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419The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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421 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
422 return different result with versioned "foo"
423 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
424 mess
425 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
426 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
427 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
428 calls dlclose
429 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
430 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
431 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
432 enforced
433 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
434 deadlock
435 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
436 format
437 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
438 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
439 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
440 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
441 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
442 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
443 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
444 other standards.
445 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
446 from the stack
447 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
448 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
449 (breaks test isolation)
450 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
451 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
452 __convert_scm_timestamps
453 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
454 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
455 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
456 missing libraries
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458 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
459 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
460 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
461 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
462 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
463 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
464 SUCCESS=MERGE
465 [28936] build: nm: No such file
466 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
467 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
468 clobbers errno
469 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
470 bench.
471 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
472 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
473 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
474 /proc/self/fd/
475 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
476 on ENOENT and EACCES
477 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
478 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
479 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
480 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
481 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
482 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
483 is promoted to global scope
484 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
485 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
486 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
487 broke ld.so
488 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
489 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
490 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
491 failure
492 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
493 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
494 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
495 before '__fortified_attr_access'
496 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
497 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
498 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
499 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
500 value for filling after \0
501 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
502 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
503 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
504 aware
505 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
506 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
507 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
508 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
509 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
510 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
511 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
512 line 184
513 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
514 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
515 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
516 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
517 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
518 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
519 missing on microblaze with largefile
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523Major new features:
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525* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
526 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
527 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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530 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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533 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
534 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
535 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
536 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
537 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
538 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
539 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
540 glibc, and must be installed.
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543 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
544 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
545
546 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
547 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
548
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549 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
550 fMxfmafNx functions.
551
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552* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
553 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
554 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
555 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
556 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
557 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
558
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560 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
561 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
562 M_SQRT1_2f.
563
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564* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
565 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
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567* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
568 macro in <tgmath.h>.
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570* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
571
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572* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
573 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
574 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
575
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576* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
577 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
578 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
579 object dependency cases.
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582 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
583 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
584 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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587 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
588 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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590* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
591 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
592 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
593 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
594 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
595 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
596 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
597 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
598 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
599 Restartable Sequences.
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601* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
602 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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605 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
606 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
607 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
608 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
609 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
610 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
611 configuration.
612
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615 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
616 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
617 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
618 huge pages.
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620* The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
621 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
622
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623* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
624 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
625 address.
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628 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
629 ABI is supported:
630
631 - or1k-linux-gnu
632
633 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
634 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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637 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
638 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
639 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
640 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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643 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
644
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646 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
647 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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649* Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
650 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
651 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
652 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
653 bounds).
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656 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
657
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661 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
662 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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665 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
666
667 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
668 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
669
670 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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672* Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
673
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674* The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
675 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
676 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
677
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678* The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
679 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
680 catching coredumps and backtraces.
681
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682* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
683 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
684 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
685
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686* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
687 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
688 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
689
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690* The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
691 support prelink PIE binaries.
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695* The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
696 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 697 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 698 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 699 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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702 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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704 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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706Security related changes:
707
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708 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
709 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
710 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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712 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
713 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
714
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715 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
716 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
717 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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719 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
720 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
721 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
722 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
723 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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727 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
728 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
729 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
730 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
731 many dsos
732 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
733 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
734 degradation
735 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
736 loaded with dlmopen
737 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
738 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
739 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
740 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
741 ID whose lifetime has not ended
742 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
743 (CVE-2022-23219)
744 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
745 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
746 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
747 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
748 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
749 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
750 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
751 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
752 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
753 --enable-initfini-array
754 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
755 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
756 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
757 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
758 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
759 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
760 empty
761 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
762 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
763 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
764 built with ld.lld
765 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
766 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
767 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
768 2.34
769 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
770 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
771 robustness
772 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
773 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
774 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
775 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
776 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
777 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
778 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
779 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
780 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
781 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
782 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
783 file
784 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
785 only dynamic section
786 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
787 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
788 recvmsg()
789 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
790 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
791 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
792 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
793 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
794 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
795 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
796 C2X
797 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
798 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
799 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
800 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
801 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
802 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
803 globalmod1.so
804 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
805 systems with TIMESIZE=64
806 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
807 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
808 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
809 spurious NUL character on state reset
810 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
811 incorrect
812 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
813 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
814 execution test
815 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
816 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
817 hppa
818 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
819 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
820 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
821 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
822 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
823 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
824 crashes
825 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
826 binutils changes
827 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
828 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
829 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
830 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
831 is not useful
832 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
833 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
834 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
835 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
836 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
837 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
838 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
839 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
840 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
841 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
842 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
843 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
844 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
845 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
846 (CVE-2022-23218)
847 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
848 (CVE-2021-3999)
849 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
850 results (CVE-2021-3998)
851 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
852 in Systemtap probes
853 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
854 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
855 x86-64-baseline
856 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
857 with no closing ]
858 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
859 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
860 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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868 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
869 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
870 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
871 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
872 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
873 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
874 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
875 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
876 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
877 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
878 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
879 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
880 potentially exposing application bugs.
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883 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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885 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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887* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
888 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
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891 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
892 Arm SVE.
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895 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
896 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
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899 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
900 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
901 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
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906 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
907 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
908 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
909 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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912 --disable-scv configure option.
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915 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
916 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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918 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
919 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
920 version of 5.1.
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923 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
924 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
925 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
926 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
927 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
928 that directory.
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931 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
932
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936 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
937 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
938 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
939 is currently a GNU extension.
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942 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
943
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946 although it is also present in other systems.
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949 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
950 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
951 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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954 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
955 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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960 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
961 instead.
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964 programs should use the equivalent standard function
965 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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968 programs should use the equivalent standard function
969 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
970
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972 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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975
976* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
977 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
978 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
979 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
980 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
981 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
982 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
983 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
984 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
985 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
986 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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989 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
990 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
991 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
992 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
993 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
994 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
995 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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998 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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1001 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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1003 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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1006 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1007 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1008 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1009 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1010 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1011 upgrade or downgrade process.
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1014 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1015 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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1018 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1019 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1020 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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1023 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1024 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1025 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1026 this functionality back.
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1029 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1030 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1031 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1034 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1035 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1036 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1037 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1038 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1039 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1040 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1041 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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1046 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1047 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1048 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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1050Security related changes:
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1053 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1054 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1055 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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1058 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1059 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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1062 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1063 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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1068 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1069 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1070 given integer (closefrom)
1071 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1072 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1073 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1074 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1075 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1076 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1077 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1078 random thread
1079 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1080 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1081 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1082 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1083 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1084 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1085 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1086 manual is incorrect
1087 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1088 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1089 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1090 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1091 pthread_create and dlopen
1092 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1093 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1094 when non-root user changes priority
1095 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1096 dlopen
1097 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1098 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1099 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1100 ordered correctly
1101 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1102 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1103 data.
1104 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1105 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1106 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1107 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1108 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
1109 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1110 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1111 the right free implementation
1112 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1113 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1114 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1115 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1116 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1117 protector=all)
1118 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1119 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1120 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1121 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1122 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1123 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1124 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1125 uninitialized
1126 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1127 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1128 system calls
1129 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1130 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1131 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1132 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1133 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1134 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1135 deployments
1136 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1137 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1138 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1139 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1140 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1141 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1142 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1143 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1144 is present
1145 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1146 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1147 protector=all
1148 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1149 information for the current directory
1150 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1151 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1152 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1153 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1154 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1155 containers
1156 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1157 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1158 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1159 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1160 INT_MAX
1161 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1162 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1163 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1164 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1165 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1166 tries resolving them lazily
1167 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1168 libthread_db
1169 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1170 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1171 argument
1172 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1173 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1174 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1175 not set ENOMEM
1176 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1177 randomization
1178 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1179 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1180 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1181 IS_ERR_VALUE
1182 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1183 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1184 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1185 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1186 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1187 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1188 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1189 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1190 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1191 with n >= 0x80000000
1192 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1193 thread never allocated anything
1194 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1195 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1196 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1197 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1198 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1199 on older kernels
1200 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1201 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1202 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1203 AMD64 cpus
1204 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1205 terminator
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1209
1210Major new features:
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1212* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1213 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1214 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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1217 to change argv[0] string.
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1220 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1221 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1222 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1223 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1224 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1225 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1226 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1227 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1228
1229* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1230 information and library search path diagnostics.
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1233 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1234 larger than fit in an integer.
1235
96203980 1236* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1238* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1239 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1240
1241 - rv32imac ilp32
1242 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1243 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1244
1245 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1246 2.28.
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1249 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1250 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1251 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1252 fortification.
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1257 mallinfo2 instead.
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1260 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1261 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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1264 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1265 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1266 prlimit.
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1269 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1270 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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1273 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1274 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1275 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1276 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1277 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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1280 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1281 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1282 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1283 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1284 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1285 loaded.
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1290 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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1293 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1294 perform any adjustments.
1295
1296* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1297 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1298 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1299 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1304
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1308 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1309 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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1312 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1313 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1316 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1324 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1325 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1326 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1327 AT_EACCESS
1328 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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1331 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1332 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1333 with GCC
1334 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1335 stack-protector=all
1336 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1337 cases
1338 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1339 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1340 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1341 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1342 changing gnuc version
1343 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1344 incorrect
1345 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1346 bits
1347 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1348 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1349 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1350 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1351 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
7f0d9e61 1352 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
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1354 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1355 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1356 too much stack space
1357 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1358 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1359 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1360 with optimization.
1361 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1362 anymore
1363 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1364 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1365 non-FMA4 system
1366 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1367 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1368 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1369 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1370 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1371 getaddrinfo
1372 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1373 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1374 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1375 fault
1376 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1377 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1378 at the end of a memory mapping
1379 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1380 by the caller to the kernel
1381 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1382 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1383 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1384 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1385 monotonic clocks
1386 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1387 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1388 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1389 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1390 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1391 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1392 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1393 one element
1394 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1395 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1396 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1397 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1398 lazy bound
1399 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1400 PI mutexes
1401 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1402 not safe
1403 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1404 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1405 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1406 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1407 platform
1408 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1409 startup code
1410 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1411 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1412 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1413 protected
1414 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1415 only since 2.31
1416 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1417 locked
1418 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1419 aligned
1420 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1421 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1422 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1423 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1424 detection logic
1425 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1426 pclose(3))
1427 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1428 setup
1429 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1430 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1431 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1432 work
1433 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1434 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1435 [27177] dynamic-link:
1436 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1437 work
1438 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1439 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1440 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1441 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1445
1446Major new features:
1447
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1448* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1449 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1450 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1451
1452* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1454* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1455 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1456 Three ABIs are supported:
1457
1458 - arc-linux-gnu
1459 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1460 - arceb-linux-gnu
1461
4d3a77c7 1462 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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1463 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1464
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1465* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1466 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1467
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4d3a77c7 1469 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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1470 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1471 this option.
1472
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1473* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1474 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1475 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1476
4d3a77c7 1477* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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1478 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1479 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1480
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1481* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1482 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1483 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1484 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1485 libpthread.
1486
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1488 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1489 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1490 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1491 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1492 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1493
1494 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1495 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1496
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1498 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1499 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1500 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1501 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1502 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1503
1504 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1505 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1506
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1507* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1508 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1509 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1510 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1511 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1512 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1513 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1514 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1515 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1516 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1517 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1518 BTI compatible.
1519
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1523 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1524 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1525 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1526 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1527 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1528 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1529
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1530* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1531 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1532 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1533 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1534 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1535 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1536 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1537 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1539
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1540* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1541 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1542 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1543 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1544 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1546* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1547 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1548 was not declared in any header file.
1549
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1550* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1551 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1552 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1553 sigaction functions instead.
1554
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1555* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1556 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1557
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1558* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1559 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1560 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1561 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1562 strsignal instead.
1563
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1564* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1565 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1566 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1567 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1568 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1569
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1570* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1571 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1572 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1573 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1574
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1575* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1576 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1577 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1578 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1579 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1580 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1581 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1582
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1584 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1585 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1586 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1587 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1589* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1590 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1591 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1592 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1593 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1594 object, to enable the hooks.
1595
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1596* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1597 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1598 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1599 LDAP.
1600
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1602
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1603* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1604 long double redirects.
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1606Security related changes:
1607
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1608 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1609 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1610 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1611
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1612 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1613 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1614 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1616 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1617 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1618
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1619 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1620 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1621 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1622 TALOS-2020-1019).
1623
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1626 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1627 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1628 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1629 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1630 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1631 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1632 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1633 filtee has constructor
1634 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1635 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1636 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1637 character entities for infinity & pi
1638 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1639 segfaults in applications
1640 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
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1642 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1643 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1644 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1645 function with -mlong-double-64
1646 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1647 binding
1648 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1649 ld.so.cache
1650 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1651 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1652 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1653 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1654 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1655 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1656 linker
1657 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1658 dynamically loaded dsos
1659 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1660 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1661 access
1662 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1663 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1664 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1665 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1666 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1667 stale configuration forever
1668 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1669 (CVE-2020-10029)
1670 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1671 defaults to PIE
1672 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1673 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1674 (CVE-2020-6096)
1675 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1676 on 32 bit and old kernel
1677 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1678 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1679 Occitan
1680 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1681 amount of sigset_t bytes
1682 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1683 strings
1684 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1685 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1686 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1687 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1688 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1689 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1690 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1691 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1692 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1693 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1694 size_t
1695 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1696 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1697 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1698 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1699 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1700 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1701 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1702 cpu=power9
1703 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1704 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1705 segfault
1706 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1707 exiting detached thread
1708 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1709 for x32
1710 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1711 ERANGE
1712 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1713 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1714 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1715 dependencies in audit mode
1716 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1717 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1718 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1719 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1720 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1721 input
1722 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1723 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1724 preserve r2
1725 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1726 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1727 variables
1728 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1729 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1730 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1731 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1732 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1733 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1734 corruption in memset
1735
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1738
1739Major new features:
1740
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1741* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1742 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1743 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1744 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1745 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1746 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1748* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1749 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1750 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1751 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1752
69ca4b54 1753* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1754 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1755 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1756
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1757* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1758
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1759* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1760 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1761 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1762 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1763 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1764 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1765 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1766 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1767
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1770* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1771 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1772 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1773 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1774 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1775 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1776
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1779 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1780
1781* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1782 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1783 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1784 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1785
1786* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1787 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1788 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1789 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1790 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1791 made this no longer practical.
1792
1793 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1794 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1795 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1796 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1797 release.)
1798
1799 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1800 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1801 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1802
1803 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1804 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1805 using clock_gettime instead.
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1808 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1809 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1810 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1811 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1812
1813 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1814 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1815 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1816 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1817
1818 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1819 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1820 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1821 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1822 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1823 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1824
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1826 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1827 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1828 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1829 offset API.
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1831* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1832 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1833 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1836 configurations.
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1838* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1839 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1840 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1841 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1842 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1843
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1845 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1846 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1847 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1848 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1849 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1850 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1851 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1852
1853 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1854 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1855
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1856* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1857 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1858 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1859 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1860 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1861 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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1864
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1866 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1867 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1869* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1870 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1871 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
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1875 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1876 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
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1878 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1879 environment variable during program execution after a security
1880 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1881 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1882 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1884The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1886 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1887 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1888 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1889 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1890 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1891 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1892 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1893 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1894 linking failure
1895 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1896 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1897 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1898 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1899 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1900 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1901 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1902 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1903 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1904 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1905 7408-2005
1906 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1907 with localedef
1908 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1909 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1910 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1911 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1912 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1913 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1914 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1915 utmp entries
1916 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1917 ABSOLUTE ABI
1918 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1919 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1920 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1921 (stringop-overflow error)
1922 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1923 functions other can lead to crashes
1924 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1925 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1926 unconditionally
1927 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1928 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1929 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1930 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1931 still can fail with an error
1932 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1933 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1934 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1935 initialized correctly
1936 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1937 -frewrite-includes
1938 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1939 value to an unsigned
1940 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1941 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1942 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1943 protection
1944 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1945 ifunc variant.
1946 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1947 al. for Clang++
1948 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1949 (Slovenian)
1950 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1951 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1952 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1953 with -std=c11
1954 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1955 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1956 part
1957 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1958 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1959 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1960 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1961 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1962 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1965Version 2.30
1966
1967Major new features:
1968
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1969* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1970 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1971 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1972
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1973* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1974 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1976* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1977 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1978 to the callback function.
1979
51ea67d5 1980* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1982* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1983 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1984 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1985
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1986* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1987
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1988* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1989 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1990 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1991 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1992 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1993
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1994* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1995 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1996 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1997 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1998 link time reference, is gone.
1999
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2000* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2001 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2002 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2003 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2004 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2005 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2006 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2007 the clock choice at initialization time).
2008
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2009* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2010 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2011 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2012
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2014
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2015* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2016 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2017 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2018 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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2019 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2020 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2021 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2022 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2023 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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2025* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2026 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2027 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2028 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2029 since glibc 2.17.
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2031* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2032 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2033
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2034* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2035 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2036
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2037* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2038 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2039
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2040* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2041 BIND_NOW flag.
2042
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2043* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2044 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2045 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2046
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2047* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2048 header have been removed.
2049
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2050* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2051 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2052 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2053 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2054
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2057* GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2058
2059 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2060 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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2062Security related changes:
2063
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2064 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2065 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2066 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2067 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2068 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2069 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2070 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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2072 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2073 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2074 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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2078 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2079 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2080 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2081 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2082 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2083 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2084 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2085 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2086 invalid input drops valid char
2087 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2088 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2089 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2090 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2091 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2092 malloc.h.
2093 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2094 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2095 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2096 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2097 functions
2098 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2099 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2100 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2101 for long double = double
2102 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2103 long double = double
2104 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2105 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2106 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2107 long timeouts
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2109 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2110 checking for NULL.
2111 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2112 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2113 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2114 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2115 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2116 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2117 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2118 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2119 not the default "nor"
2120 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2121 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2122 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2123 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2124 compiler barriers.
2125 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2126 unnecessary librt dependencies
2127 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2128 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2129 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2130 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2131 unsorted chunk
2132 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2133 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2134 to R_SPARC_H44
2135 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2136 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2137 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2138 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2139 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2140 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2141 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2142 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2143 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2144 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2145 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2146 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2147 was not used
2148 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2149 tests
2150 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2151 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2152 time_t changes
2153 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2154 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2155 kernels and break testing
2156 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2157 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2158 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2159 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2160 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2161 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2162 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2163 -O3 -march=skylake
2164 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2165 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2166 crash
2167 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2168 linked glibc
2169 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2170 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2171 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2172 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2173 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2174 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2175 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2176 always implemented in the same library
2177 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2178 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2179 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2180 testroot
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2184
2185Major new features:
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2188 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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2191 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2192 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2193 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2194 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2195 configured location.
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2200 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2201
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2202* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2203 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2204 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2205 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2206 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2207 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2208 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2209 process actually does not use HTM).
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2212 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2213 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2214 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2215 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2216 of the same name.
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2218* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2219 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2220 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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2222 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2223
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2224* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2225 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2226 supported:
2227 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2228 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2229
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2230* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2231 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2232 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2233 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2234 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2235 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2236 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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2239 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2240 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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2245 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2247* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2248 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2249 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2250 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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2252* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2253 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2254 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2255 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2256 structures.
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2259 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2260 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2261 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2262 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2263 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2264
2265 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2266 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2267 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2268 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2269 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2270
2271 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2272 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2273 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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2276
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2280 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2281
2282 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2283 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2284
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2285Security related changes:
2286
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2287 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2288 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2289 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2291 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2292 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2293 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2294 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2295 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2296
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2297 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2298 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2299 or command injection issues in applications.
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2301The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2302
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2303 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2304 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2305 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2306 thousands
2307 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2308 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2309 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2310 --param options)
2311 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2312 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2313 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2314 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2315 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2316 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2317 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2318 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2319 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2320 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2321 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2322 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2323 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2324 pointer argument is non-NULL
2325 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2326 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2327 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2328 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2329 multithreads call popen
2330 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2331 and pthread_create fails.
2332 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2333 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2334 constructor
2335 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2336 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2337 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2338 source tree
2339 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2340 float
2341 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2342 one error
2343 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2344 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2345 linker
2346 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2347 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2348 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2349 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2350 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2351 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2352 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2353 filesystems
2354 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2355 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2356 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2357 functions
2358 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2359 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2360 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2361 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2362 have wrong type
2363 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2364 wrong type
2365 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2366 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2367 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2368 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2369 threads
2370 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2371 start.S
2372 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2373 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2374 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2375 powerpc64le
2376 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2377 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2378 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2379 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2380 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2381 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2382 strftime
2383 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2384 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2385 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2386 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2387 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2388 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2389 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2390 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2391 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2392 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2393 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2394 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2395 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2396 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2397 tcache size
2398 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2399 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2400 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2401 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2402 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2403 (CVE-2018-19591)
2404 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2405 nearest rounding mode
2406 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2407 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2408 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2409 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2410 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2411 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2412 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2413 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2414 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2415 error
2416 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2417 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2418 using GCC 8
2419 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2420 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2421 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2422 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2423 ppc64le
2424 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2425 expected result
2426 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2427 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2428 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2429 sigaltstack
2430 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2431 answers will be rejected)
2432 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2435Version 2.28
2436
2437Major new features:
2438
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2439* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2440 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2441 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2442 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2443 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2444 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2445 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2446 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2447 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2448 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2449 archive or binary locales.
2450
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2451* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2452 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2453 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2454 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2455 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2456 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2457 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2458 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2459 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2460 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2461 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2462 validated for i686.
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2464* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2465 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2466 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2467 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2468 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2469 field) to indicate such support is required.
2470
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2471* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2472 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2473 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2474
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2475* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2476 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2477
2478 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2479 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2481 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2482 fMxsubfNx functions.
2483
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2484 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2485 fMxmulfNx functions.
2486
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2487 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2488 fMxdivfNx functions.
2489
e607a352 2490* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2491 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2492 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2493 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2494 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 2496* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2497 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2499* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2500 patches.
2501
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2502* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2503 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2504 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2505 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2506 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2507 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2508 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2509 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2510
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2511* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2512 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2513 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2514 the fstatat64 function.
2515
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2516* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2517 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2518 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2519 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2520 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2521 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2522 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2523 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2524 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2525
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2526* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2527 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2528 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2529 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2530 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2531 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2532 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2533 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2534 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2535 results in a load failure now.
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2537* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2538 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2539 <threads.h>:
2540
2541 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2542 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2543
2544 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2545 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2546
2547 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2548
2549 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2550 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2551
2552 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2553
2554 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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2557
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2558* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2559 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2560 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2561
2562* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2563 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2564 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2565 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2566 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2567 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2568
2569* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2570 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2571 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2572 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2573 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2574 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2575 (Bug #1190.)
2576
2577* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2578 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2579 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2580 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2581 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2582 further explanation.
2583
2584 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2585 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2586 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2588* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2589
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2590* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2591 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2592 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2593
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2594* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2595 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2596 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2597 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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2599* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2600 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2601 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2602 for this function instead.
2603
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2604* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2605 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2606 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2607
2608* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2609 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2610 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2611 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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2613* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2614 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2615 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2616 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2617 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2618
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2619* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2620 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2621 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2622 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2623 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2624 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2625 such as libgcrypt.
2626
2627* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2628 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2629 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2630 enabled.
2631
2632* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2633 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2634 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2635
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2636* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2637 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2638 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2639 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2640 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2641 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2642
2643 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2644 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2645 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2646 behavior in a future release.
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2649
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2652Security related changes:
2653
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2654 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2655 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2656 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2657 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2659 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2660 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2661
2662 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2663 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2664 Izbyshev.
2665
2666 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2667 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2668 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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2672 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2673 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2674 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2675 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2676 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2677 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2678 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2679 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2680 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2681 14651
2682 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2683 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2684 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2685 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2686 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2687 conversion is given
2688 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2689 date
2690 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2691 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2692 scope with -O1 and higher
2693 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2694 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2695 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2696 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2697 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2698 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2699 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2700 horrible machine code)
2701 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2702 last constant.
2703 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2704 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2705 symbols
2706 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2707 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2708 defined
2709 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2710 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2711 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2712 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2713 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2714 fpscr.c'
2715 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2716 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2717 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2718 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2719 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2720 the base address
2721 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2722 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2723 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2724 open_verify
2725 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2726 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2727 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2728 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2729 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2730 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2731 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2732 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2733 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2734 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2735 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2736 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2737 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2738 dlopen
2739 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2740 AT_SECURE=1
2741 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2742 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2743 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2744 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2745 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2746 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2747 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2748 for Spanish with CLDR
2749 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2750 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2751 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2752 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2753 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2754 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2755 es_BO
2756 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2757 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2758 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2759 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2760 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2761 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2762 dlopen failures
2763 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2764 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2765 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2766 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2767 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2768 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2769 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2770 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2771 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2772 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2773 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2774 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2775 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2776 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2777 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2778 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2779 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2780 makecontext
2781 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2782 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2783 required
2784 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2785 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2786 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2787 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2788 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2789 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2790 disabled
2791 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2792 failure
2793 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2794 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2795 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2796 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2797 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2798 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2799 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2800 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2801 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2802 and libc build with -Os)
2803 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2804 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2805 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2806 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2807 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2808 that changes /etc/passwd
2809 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2810 (CVE-2018-11237)
2811 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2812 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2813 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2814 posix/regcomp.c
2815 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2816 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2817 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2818 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2819 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2820 AT_SECURE
2821 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2822 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2823 parser.c
2824 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2825 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2826 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2827 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2828 directed rounding
2829 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2830 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2831 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2832 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2833 lookup
2834 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2835 interposition
2836 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2837 DSO boundaries.
2838 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2839 <linux/time.h>
2840 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2841 checking
2842 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2843 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2844 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2845 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2846 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2847 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2848 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2849 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2850 processors
2851 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2854Version 2.27
2855
2856Major new features:
2857
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2858* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2859 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2860 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2861 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2862 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2863 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2864 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2865 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2866 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2867
ac817e08 2868* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2869 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2870 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 2871
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2872* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2873
4cf82d23 2874* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 2875
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2876* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2877 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2878 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2879 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2880 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2881 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2882 from a security and performance perspective.
2883
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2884* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2885 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2886 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2887 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2888
81325b12 2889* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2890 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2891 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2892 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2893 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2894
a23aa5b7 2895* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2896 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2897 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2898 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2899 _Float128.
2900
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2901* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2902 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2903 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2904
4bab0224 2905* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2906
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2907* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2908 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2909 pkey_get.
2910
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2911* The copy_file_range function was added.
2912
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2913* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2914
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2915* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2916 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2917 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2918
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2919* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2920 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2921 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2922 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2923 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2924 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2925 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2926
2927 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2928 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2929 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2930 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2931 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2932 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2933 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2934
2935 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2936 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2937 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2938 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2939 respectively.
2940
2941 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2942 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2943 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2944 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2945
2946 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2947 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2948 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2949
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2950 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2951 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2952 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2954* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2955 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2956 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2957
2958 - rv64imac lp64
2959 - rv64imafdc lp64
2960 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2961
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2962Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2963
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2964* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2965 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2966 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2967 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2968 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2969 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2970 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2971 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2972 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2973 fix this.
2974
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2975* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2976 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2977 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2978
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2979* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2980 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2981 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2982 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2983 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2984 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2985 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2986 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2987 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2988 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2989 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2990 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2991 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2992 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2993 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2994 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2995 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2996 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2997 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2998 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2999 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3000 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3001 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3002 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3003 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3004 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3005
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3007 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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3009* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3010 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3011 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3012 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3013 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3014 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3015 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3016
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3017* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3018 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3019 exp10l for these functions instead.
3020
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3021* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3022 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3023 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3024
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3025* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3026 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3027 ignored.
3028
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3029* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3030 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3031 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3032 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3033
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3034* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3035 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3036
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3037* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3038 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3039
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3040* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3041 programs.
3042
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3043* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3044
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3045* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3046 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3047 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3048 instead.
3049
3050 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3051 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3052 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3053 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3054 use, but predates the bits convention.
3055
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3056Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3057
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3058* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3059 subdirectory.
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3060
3061Security related changes:
3062
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3063 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3064 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3065 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3066 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3067 script.)
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3069 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3070 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3071 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3072 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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3074 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3075 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3076 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3077 of service.
3078
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3079 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3080 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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3081 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3082
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3083 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3084 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3085 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3086 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3087
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3088 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3089 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3090 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3091 Qualys.
3092
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3093 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3094 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3095 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3096 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3097 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3098
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3099 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3100 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3101 current directory.
3102
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3103 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3104 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3105 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3106
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3107 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3108 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3109 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3110
71aa429b
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3111 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3112 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3113 small, instead of NULL.
3114
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3115The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3116
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3117 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3118 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3119 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3120 locale
3121 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3122 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3123 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3124 cases
3125 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3126 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3127 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3128 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3129 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3130 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3131 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3132 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3133 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3134 "Bangla"
3135 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3136 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3137 width Latin characters
3138 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3139 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3140 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3141 letters
3142 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3143 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3144 (CVE-2009-5064)
3145 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3146 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3147 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3148 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3149 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3150 if malloc succeeded
3151 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3152 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3153 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3154 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3155 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3156 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3157 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3158 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3159 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3160 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3161 U+309A
3162 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3163 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3164 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3165 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3166 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3167 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3168 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3169 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3170 for Nicaragua
3171 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3172 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3173 are not found.
3174 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3175 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3176 access
3177 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3178 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3179 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3180 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3181 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3182 __regcall calling convention
3183 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3184 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3185 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3186 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3187 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3188 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3189 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3190 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3191 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3192 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3193 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3194 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3195 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3196 locale
3197 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3198 protector=all
3199 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3200 wcwidth
3201 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3202 consistency check failures
3203 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3204 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3205 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3206 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3207 PIE
3208 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3209 locales
3210 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3211 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3212 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3213 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3214 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3215 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3216 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3217 on memory allocation failure
3218 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3219 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3220 the suspect)
3221 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3222 default (i386)
3223 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3224 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3225 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3226 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3227 instead of EAI_NODATA
3228 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3229 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3230 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3231 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3232 implementation
3233 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3234 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3235 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3236 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3237 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3238 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3239 allocation in syscall loops)
3240 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3241 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3242 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3243 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3244 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3245 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3246 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3247 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3248 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3249 occur with -O3
3250 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3251 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3252 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3253 amounts)
3254 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3255 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3256 niu_NZ
3257 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3258 checks
3259 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3260 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3261 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3262 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3263 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3264 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3265 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3266 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3267 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3268 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3269 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3270 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3271 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3272 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3273 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3274 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3275 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3276 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3277 parsing after OOM
3278 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3279 object
3280 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3281 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3282 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3283 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3284 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3285 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3286 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
3287 ppc64le
3288 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3289 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3290 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3291 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3292 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3293 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3294 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3295 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3296 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3297 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3298 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3299 math_force_eval
3300 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3301 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3302 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3303 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3304 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3305 the svid compat wrapper
3306 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3307 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3308 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3309 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3310 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3311 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3312 --verbose.
3313 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3314 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3315 to 2.26
3316 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3317 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3318 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3319 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3320 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3321 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3322 (CVE-2017-15804)
3323 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3324 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3325 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3326 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3327 failure."
3328 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3329 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3330 -m32
3331 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3332 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3333 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3334 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3335 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3336 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3337 inside the ASCII printable range
3338 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3339 -mlong-double-64
3340 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3341 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3342 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3343 Internet
3344 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3345 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3346 backslash
3347 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3348 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3349 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3350 heaps in an arena
3351 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3352 networking interface
3353 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3354 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3355 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3356 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3357 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3358 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3359 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3360 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3361 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3362 order
3363 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3364 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3365 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3366 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3367 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3368 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3369 same as for Croatian
3370 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3371 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3372 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3373 for initial thread"
3374 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3375 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3376 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3377 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3378 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3379 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3380 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3381 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3382 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3383 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3384 modified in case of success
3385 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3386 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3387 success
3388 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3389 stack-protector=all
3390 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3391 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3392 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3393 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3394 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3395 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3396 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3397 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3398 adding it on top
3399 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3400 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3401 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3402 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3403 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3404 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3405 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3406 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3407 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3408 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3409 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3410 elision and tunables
3411 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3412 "invalid" exception
3413 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3414 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3415 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3416 exception
3417 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3418 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3419 power4
3420 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3421 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3422 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3423 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3424 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3425 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3426 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3427 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3428 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 3429
58557c22
SP
3430\f
3431Version 2.26
3432
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3433Major new features:
3434
d5c3fafc
DD
3435* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3436 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3437 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3438 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3439 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3440 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3441 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3442
925fac77
MF
3443* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3444 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3445 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
3446 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3447 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3448 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3449 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 3450
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3451* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3452 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3453 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3454
2b2ccd0c 3455* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3456
7e368000
JM
3457 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3458 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3459 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3460
7e368000
JM
3461 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3462 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3463 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3464 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3465 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3466
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JM
3467 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3468 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3469 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3470
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3471* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3472 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3473
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3474* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3475 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3476 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3477 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3478
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3479* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3480 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3481 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3482 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3483
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3484* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3485 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3486 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3487 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3488
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3489* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3490 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3491 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3492
2b2ccd0c 3493* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
8d6cba41
JM
3494 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3495 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3496 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3497
2b2ccd0c 3498 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
8d6cba41
JM
3499 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3500 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3501 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3502 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3503
3504 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3505 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3506 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3507 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3508 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3509 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3510
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3511Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3512
3513* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3514 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3515 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3516 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3517 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3518 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3519 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3520 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3521
3522* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3523 removed.
3524
3525* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3526 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3527 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3528 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3529
3530* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3531 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3532 default.
3533
3534 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3535 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3536 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
7e368000
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3537 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3538 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3539
3540 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3541 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3542 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3543 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3544
3545* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3546 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3547 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3548 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3549
3550* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3551 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3552
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3553* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3554 exported by accident.
3555
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3556* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3557 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3558 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3559
3560* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3561 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3562 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3563 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3564
3565* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3566
3567* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3568
3569* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3570 free instead.
3571
3572* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3573 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3574
3575* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3576 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3577
3578* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3579 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3580 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3581 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3582 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3583 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3584 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3585 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3586
3587* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3588 synced with the kernel:
3589
3590 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3591 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3592
3593 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3594 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3595 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3596
3597 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3598 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3599
3600Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3601
3602* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3603 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3604 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3605
7e368000 3606* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3608* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3609 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3610
3611 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3612 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3613 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3614 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3615 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 3616
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3617Security related changes:
3618
e14a2772 3619* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3620 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3621
3622* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3623 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3624
3625* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3626 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3627 (CVE-2010-3192).
3628
3629* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3630 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3631
3632The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3633
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3634 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3635 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3636 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3637 fields
3638 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3639 (CVE-2010-3192)
3640 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3641 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3642 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3643 ld.bfd is available
3644 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3645 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3646 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3647 x86 and other generic code
3648 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3649 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3650 incorrect
3651 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3652 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3653 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3654 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3655 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3656 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3657 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3658 resolver
3659 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3660 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3661 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3662 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3663 chillu characters
3664 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3665 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3666 receiving data
3667 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3668 whitespace
3669 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3670 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3671 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3672 for Peru
3673 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3674 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3675 failures consistently
3676 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3677 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3678 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3679 frame-pointer on i386
3680 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3681 register
7f0d9e61 3682 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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3683 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3684 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3685 generic c code is used
3686 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3687 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3688 around 4000
3689 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3690 (CVE-2017-12133)
3691 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3692 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3693 with -lieee
3694 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3695 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3696 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3697 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3698 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3699 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3700 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3701 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3702 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3703 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3704 remove()
3705 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3706 checked for errors.
3707 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3708 new posix_spawn implementation
3709 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3710 leads to lower CPU frequency
3711 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3712 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3713 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3714 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3715 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3716 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3717 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3718 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3719 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3720 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3721 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3722 not support gethostbyname4_r
3723 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3724 switching
3725 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3726 arenas
3727 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3728 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3729 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3730 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3731 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3732 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3733 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3734 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3735 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3736 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3737 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3738 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3739 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3740 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3741 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3742 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3743 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3744 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3745 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3746 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3747 retry value
3748 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3749 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3750 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3751 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3752 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3753 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3754 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3755 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3756 [21537] libc:
3757 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3758 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3759 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3760 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3761 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3762 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3763 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3764 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3765 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3766 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3767 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3768 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3769 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3770 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3771 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3772 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3773 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3774 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3775 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3776 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3777 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3778 issue on x86-64
3779 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3780 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3781 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3782 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3783 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3784 construction
3785 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3786 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3787 between_2_3
3788 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3789 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3790 conditions
3791 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3792 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3793 Hindi Locale
3794 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3795 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3796 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3797 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3798 locale
3799 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3800 leading to relocation crash
3801 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3802 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3803 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3804 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3805 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3806 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3807 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3808 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3809 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3810 locale
3811 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3812 locale
3813 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3814 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3815 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3816 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3817 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3818 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3819 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3820 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3821 strings
3822 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3823 protector=all
3824 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3825 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3826 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3827 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3828 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3829 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3830 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3831 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3832 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3833 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3834 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3835 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3836 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3837 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3838 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3839 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3840 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3841 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3842 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3843 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3844 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3845 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3846 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3847 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3848 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3849 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3850 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3851 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3852 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3853 with unicode 9.0
3854 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3855 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3856 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3857 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3858 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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3861Version 2.25
3862
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3863* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3864 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3865 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3866 Library.
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3868* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3869 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3870 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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3871 the GNU C Library.
3872
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3873* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3874 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3875 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3876 the GNU C Library.
3877
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3878* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3879 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3880 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3881 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3882 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3883 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3884 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3885 will not.
3886
3887 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3888 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3889 many years.
3890
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3891* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3892 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3893 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3894
3895 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3896 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3897 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3898 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3899 problem.
3900
ec94343f 3901* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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3902 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3903 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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3905* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3906 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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3907 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3908 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3909 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3910 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3911 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3912 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3913 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3914 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3915 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3916 WINT_WIDTH.
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3918* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3919
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3920 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3921
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3922 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3923 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3924 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3925
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3926 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3927 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3928
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3929 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3930 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3931
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3932 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3933
29cb9293 3934 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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3936 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3937 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3938
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3939 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3940
eb3c12c7 3941 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3942 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3943
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3944* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3945 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3946
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3947* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3948 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3949 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3950
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3951* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3952 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3953 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3954 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3955 effects of the memory clear).
3956
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3957* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3958 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3959 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3960 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3961
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3962* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3963 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3964 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3965 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3966 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3967 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3968
92dcaa3e
FW
3969* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3970 have been added.
3971
705a79f8
FW
3972* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3973 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3974 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3975 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3976 as large as several megabytes.
3977
4d728087
FW
3978* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3979 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3980 been removed.
3981
e863cce5
FW
3982* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3983 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3984 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3985 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3986 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3987 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3988 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3989
7ec47a85
FW
3990* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3991 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3992 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3993 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3994
099191b1 3995* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3996 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3997 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3998 Internet.
3999
bbe989ee
FW
4000* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4001 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4002 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 4003
b76e0659
FW
4004* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4005 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4006 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4007 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4008
3a2a1d2c
FW
4009* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4010 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4011 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4012 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4013 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4014
be728303
FW
4015* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4016 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4017 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4018 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4019 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4020
6815a33d
FW
4021* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4022 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4023 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4024 did not reflect that.
4025
022dfdce
SL
4026* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4027 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4028 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4029 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4030 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4031 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4032 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4033 'gcc/config.gcc'.
4034
23b5cae1
MG
4035* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4036 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4037 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4038 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4039
7715d3ab
SP
4040* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4041 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4042 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4043 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4044
0cea3587
SP
4045* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4046 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4047 guarantees.
4048
4049* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4050 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4051 make state changes.
4052
e720d3d9
CD
4053Security related changes:
4054
fc82b0a2 4055* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
4056 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4057 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4058 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 4059 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 4060
fc82b0a2
FW
4061* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4062 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4063 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4064 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4065 (CVE-2015-5180)
4066
e720d3d9
CD
4067The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4068
fdb724f9 4069 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
4070 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4071 protector-all
4072 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4073 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4074 before it started waiting
4075 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4076 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4077 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4078 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4079 wrong type
4080 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4081 library linked with pthread
4082 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4083 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4084 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4085 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4086 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4087 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4088 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 4089 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
4090 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4091 not
4092 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4093 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4094 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4095 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4096 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4097 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4098 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4099 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4100 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4101 termination
4102 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4103 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4104 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4105 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4106 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4107 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4108 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4109 causes a segmentation fault
4110 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4111 linking
4112 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4113 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4114 uninitialized GOT
4115 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4116 versions
4117 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4118 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4119 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4120 is always true.
4121 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4122 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4123 modes
4124 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4125 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4126 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4127 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4128 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4129 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4130 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4131 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4132 libpthread.a
4133 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4134 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4135 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4136 _res_hconf
4137 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4138 information.
4139 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4140 penalty
4141 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4142 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4143 cause transition penalty
4144 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4145 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4146 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4147 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4148 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4149 mcount.oS)
4150 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4151 Checking
4152 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4153 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4154 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4155 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4156 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4157 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4158 multi-arch
4159 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4160 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4161 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4162 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4163 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4164 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4165 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4166 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4167 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4168 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4169 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4170 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4171 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4172 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4173 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4174 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4175 glibc
4176 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4177 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4178 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4179 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4180 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4181 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4182 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4183 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4184 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4185 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4186 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4187 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4188 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4189 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4190 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4191 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4192 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4193 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4194 RES_USE_INET6
4195 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4196 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4197 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4198 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4199 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4200 wrong condition
4201 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4202 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4203 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4204 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4205 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4206 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4207 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4208 clang
4209 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4210 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4211 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4212 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4213 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 4214\f
11fca961
AZ
4215Version 2.24
4216
5b4ecd3f
JM
4217* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4218 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4219 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4220 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4221 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4222 architectures.
4223
b6ebba70
MF
4224* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4225 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4226 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4227
7584a3f9
FW
4228* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4229 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4230
b49ab5f4
FW
4231* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4232 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4233 instead of “union wait”.
4234
ced8f893
SG
4235* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4236 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4237 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4238 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4239 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4240 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4241 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4242
2ba3cfa1
FW
4243* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4244 API.
4245
b7a9b7b0
MF
4246* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4247 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4248 drop it.
6a54bcda 4249
41a359e2
RS
4250* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4251 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4252 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4253 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4254 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4255 extensions.
4256
11fca961
AZ
4257Security related changes:
4258
f5b3338d
FW
4259* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4260 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4261 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4262
4ab2ab03
FW
4263* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4264 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4265 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4266 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4267
5171f307
FW
4268* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4269 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4270 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4271
bc779a1a
FW
4272* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4273 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4274 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4275
fab38231
FW
4276* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4277 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4278 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4279 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4280
11fca961
AZ
4281The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4282
3c4f81ec
CD
4283 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4284 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4285 of MS-DOS.
4286 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4287 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4288 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4289 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4290 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4291 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4292 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4293 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4294 CLDR data
4295 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4296 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4297 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4298 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4299 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4300 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4301 romanisation
4302 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4303 and +/-
4304 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4305 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4306 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4307 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4308 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4309 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4310 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4311 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4312 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4313 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4314 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4315 all locales
4316 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4317 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4318 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4319 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4320 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4321 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4322 execute
4323 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4324 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4325 -Wsystem-headers
4326 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4327 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4328 Romanian locale data
4329 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4330 symbol
4331 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4332 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4333 language
4334 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4335 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4336 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4337 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4338 machine
4339 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4340 description
4341 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4342 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4343 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4344 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4345 when using RTLD_NEXT
4346 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4347 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4348 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4349 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4350 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4351 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4352 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4353 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4354 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4355 Excavator core
4356 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4357 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4358 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4359 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4360 double range
4361 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4362 part zero incorrect
4363 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4364 equality tests
4365 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4366 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4367 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4368 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4369 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4370 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4371 glibc-2.22
4372 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4373 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4374 'tst-numeric.c'
4375 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4376 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4377 low part
4378 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4379 result
4380 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4381 unaligned stack
4382 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4383 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4384 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4385 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4386 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4387 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4388 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4389 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4390 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4391 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4392 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4393 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4394 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4395 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4396 modes
4397 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4398 server addresses
4399 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4400 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4401 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4402 response to getaddrinfo
4403 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4404 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4405 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4406 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4407 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4408 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4409 sometimes incorrect
4410 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4411 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4412 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4413 record types
4414 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4415 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4416 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4417 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4418 (CVE-2016-3075)
4419 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4420 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4421 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4422 resolving symbols
4423 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4424 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4425 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4426 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4427 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4428 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4429 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4430 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4431 gethosts
4432 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4433 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4434 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4435 (CVE-2016-3706)
4436 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4437 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4438 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4439 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4440 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4441 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4442 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4443 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4444 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4445 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4446 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4447 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4448 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4449 executable
4450 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4451 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4452 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4453 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4454 XPG3
4455 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4456 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4457 (CVE-2016-4429)
4458 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4459 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4460 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4461 AS not supporting AVX512
4462 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4463 sNaN argument
4464 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4465 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4466 argument
4467 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4468 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4469 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4470 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4471 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4472 eax=0x80000001
4473 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4474 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4475 subnormals
4476 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4477 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4478 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4479 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4480 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4481 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4482 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4483 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4484 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4485 input
4486 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4487 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4488 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4489 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4490 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4491 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4492 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4493 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4494 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4495 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4496 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4497 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4498 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4499 double rounding
4500 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4501 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4502 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4503 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4504 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4505 (Only arm/linux)
4506 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4507 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4508 fallbacks
4509 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4510 "invalid" exceptions
4511 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4512 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4513 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4514 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4515 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4516 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4517 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4518 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4519 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 4520\f
aeb47bbc
DM
4521Version 2.23
4522
23256f5e
MF
4523* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4524 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4525 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4526 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4527 89, 16061, and 18568.
4528
2359035a
FW
4529* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4530 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4531 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4532 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4533 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4534 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4535 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4536
8b7b7f75
MW
4537* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4538 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4539 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4540
2eecc8af
FW
4541* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4542 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4543 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4544 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4545 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4546 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4547 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4548
a62719ba
FW
4549* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4550 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4551 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4552 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 4553 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4554 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4555 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4556 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4557
bc148ca1
MF
4558* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4559 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4560 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4561 independent of the GNU C Library.
4562
1c70b6f1
ZW
4563* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4564 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4565
eed3e1eb
JM
4566* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4567 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4568 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4569 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4570 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4571 Linux kernel.
4572
1efad39b
SL
4573* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4574 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4575
d709042a
JM
4576* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4577 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4578 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4579 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4580 defining their own copy.
4581
b08b4218
JM
4582* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4583 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4584 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4585
8f5e8b01
JM
4586Security related changes:
4587
6400ae6e
FW
4588* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4589 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4590
4591* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4592 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4593 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4594 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4595 (CVE-2015-8777)
4596
4597* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4598 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4599
4600* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4601 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4602
8f5e8b01
JM
4603* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4604 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4605 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4606
e9db92d3
CD
4607* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4608 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4609 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4610 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4611 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4612 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4613 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4614 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4615 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4616 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4617 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4618 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4619 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4620
ad372e29 4621The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4622
ad372e29
AZ
4623 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4624 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4625 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4626 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4627 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4628 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4629 use `mkstemp'
4630 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 4631 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
AZ
4632 overflow/underflow errors
4633 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4634 overflow/underflow
4635 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4636 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4637 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4638 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4639 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4640 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4641 are not contiguous
4642 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4643 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4644 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4645 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4646 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4647 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4648 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4649 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4650 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4651 all exceptions
4652 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4653 arguments
4654 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4655 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4656 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4657 should include
4658 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4659 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4660 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4661 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4662 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4663 GNU/Linux
4664 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4665 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4666 arguments
4667 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4668 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4669 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4670 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4671 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4672 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4673 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4674 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4675 rounding results
4676 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4677 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4678 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4679 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4680 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4681 fails
4682 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4683 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4684 block boundary
4685 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4686 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4687 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4688 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4689 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4690 4.7?
4691 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4692 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4693 (related to lock elision)
4694 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4695 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4696 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4697 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4698 (CVE-2015-8779)
4699 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4700 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4701 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4702 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4703 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4704 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4705 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4706 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4707 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4708 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4709 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4710 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4711 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4712 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4713 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4714 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4715 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4716 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4717 contains a vector instruction exception.
4718 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4719 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4720 locales
4721 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4722 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4723 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4724 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4725 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4726 missing break ?
4727 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4728 32bit processes
4729 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4730 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4731 infinity
4732 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4733 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4734 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4735 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4736 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4737 be forced unloaded
4738 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4739 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4740 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4741 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4742 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4743 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4744 statically too large
4745 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4746 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4747 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4748 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4749 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4750 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4751 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4752 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4753 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4754 FUTEX_SHARED
4755 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4756 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4757 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4758 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4759 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4760 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4761 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4762 opendir()
4763 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4764 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4765 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4766 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4767 signgam
4768 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4769 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4770 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4771 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4772 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4773 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4774 dependencies
4775 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4776 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4777 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4778 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4779 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4780 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4781 (CVE-2015-8776)
4782 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4783 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4784 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4785 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4786 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4787 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4788 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4789 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4790 contention
4791 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4792 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4793 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4794 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4795 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4796 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4797 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4798 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4799 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4800 rounding modes
4801 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4802 ILP32
4803 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4804 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4805 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4806 threshold
4807 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4808 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4809 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 4810 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
AZ
4811 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4812 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4813 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4814 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4815 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4816 pthread_setaffinity_np
4817 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4818 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4819 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4820 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4821 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4822 prelink
4823 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4824 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4825 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4826 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4827 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4828 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4829 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4830 bits/mathcalls.h
4831 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4832 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4833 for C99-based standards
4834 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4835 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4836 math-only
4837 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4838 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4839 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4840 disabled
4841 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4842 "inexact" exceptions
4843 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4844 arguments
4845 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4846 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4847 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4848 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4849 rules
4850 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4851 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4852 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4853 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4854 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4855 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4856 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4857 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4858 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4859 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4860 from 32bit
4861 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4862 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4863 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4864 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4865 subnormals
4866 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4867 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4868 error on 32-bit architectures
4869 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4870 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4871 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4872 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4873 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4874 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4875 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4876 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4877 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4878 -Os
4879 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4880 CPU's.
4881 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4882 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4883 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4884 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4885 architectures
4886 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 4887\f
1c7a4a51
JM
4888Version 2.22
4889
4890* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4891
3df5cd98 4892 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4893 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4894 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4895 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4896 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4897 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4898 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4899 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4900 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4901 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4902 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4903 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4904 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4905 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4906 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4907 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4908 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4909 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4910 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4911 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4912
f7fba805
SL
4913* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4914 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4915
2959eda9
AS
4916* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4917 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4918 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4919 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4920 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4921 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4922
42261ad7
FW
4923* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4924 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4925 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4926 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4927 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4928
afcd9480
AM
4929* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4930 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4931 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4932
4a4839c9
AO
4933* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4934 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4935 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4936 17998.
4937
b13b96ca
AS
4938* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4939 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4940 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4941
4942* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4943 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4944 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4945 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4946 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4947 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4948 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4949 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4950
4951* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4952 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4953 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4954 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4955
4956* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4957 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4958 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4959
4960* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4961 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4962
4963* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4964 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4965 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4966
a03ba363 4967 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4968 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4969 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4970\f
58b930ae
SP
4971Version 2.21
4972
4973* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4974
042e1521 4975 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4976 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4977 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4978 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4979 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4980 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4981 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4982 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4983 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4984 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4985 17892.
4986
46d54873
FW
4987* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4988 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4989 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4990 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4991 intended.
042e1521
CD
4992
4993* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4994 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4995 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4996 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4997 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4998 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4999
522e6ee3
CLT
5000* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5001
d3b00f46
AZ
5002* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5003 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 5004 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 5005
8d2c0a59
AZ
5006* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5007 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5008 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5009 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5010 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5011 effects being visible outside transactions.
5012
dc400d7b
RE
5013* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5014 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 5015
0f9dfe04
L
5016* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5017
a39208bd
CD
5018* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5019 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 5020 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
5021 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5022 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 5023
a5357b7c
JL
5024* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5025 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5026
e54db0ea
AM
5027* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5028 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5029 format.
11e3417a 5030
4863355a
JM
5031* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5032 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5033 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5034
a4ecc9eb
JM
5035* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5036 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5037
0d560bbf 5038* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
5039
5040* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5041 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5042 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5043 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
5044
5045* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5046 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
5047
5048* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5049 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5050 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5051 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5052 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5053 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5054 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5055 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5056 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5057 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5058 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5059 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5060 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5061
5062 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5063 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5064 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5065 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5066 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 5067\f
d5b396c1
AM
5068Version 2.20
5069
5070* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5071
6a9350c8
JM
5072 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5073 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5074 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5075 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5076 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5077 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5078 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5079 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5080 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5081 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5082 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5083 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5084 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5085 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5086 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 5087
95ee7fb1
SL
5088* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5089 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5090 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5091 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5092 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 5093 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
5094 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5095 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5096 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5097 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5098
0961f7e1
JL
5099* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5100 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5101 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5102 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5103 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 5104
f940b965
RE
5105* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5106
d0f5b3f8
JM
5107* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5108 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5109
d6fe5e58
JM
5110* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5111 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5112 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5113 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5114 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5115 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5116
464263cc
JM
5117* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5118 from ports.
c941736c
JM
5119
5120* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5121 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5122 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5123 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5124 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5125 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5126 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
5127
5128* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
5129
5130* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5131 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5132 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5133 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5134 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5135 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5136 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
5137
5138* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5139 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5140 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5141 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5142 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
5143
5144* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5145 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5146 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
5147
5148* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5149 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5150 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5151 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
5152
5153* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5154 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5155 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5156 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5157 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5158 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5159 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5160 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
5161
5162* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5163 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5164 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5165 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5166 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5167 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5168 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5169 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5170 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
5171
5172* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5173 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5174 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5175 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5176 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 5177 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
5178
5179* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5180 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5181 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5182 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5183\f
5184Version 2.19
5185
5186* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5187
fd2f9486
JM
5188 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5189 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5190 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5191 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5192 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5193 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5194 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5195 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5196 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5197 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5198 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5199 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5200 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5201 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5202 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5203 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5204 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5205 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5206
11520a57
CD
5207* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5208 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5209
2fe16229
CD
5210* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5211 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5212 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5213 extension which uses __block.
5214
303e567a
SP
5215* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5216 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5217 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5218 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5219 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5220
141f3a77
SP
5221* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5222 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5223 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5224 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5225 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5226
5227* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5228 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5229 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5230 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5231 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5232
5233* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5234 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5235 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5236
ba0d798c
WN
5237* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5238 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5239 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5240 #15856, #15857).
5241
7cbcdb36
SP
5242* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5243 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5244
82bab04b 5245* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5246 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5247
c5f840fd
MB
5248* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5249
3e181dda
CD
5250* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5251 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5252
3e181dda 5253* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5254
8a05c252
CL
5255* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5256
6055173a
JM
5257* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5258 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5259 for which the C library was built.
5260
b125d3e5
JM
5261* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5262 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5263 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5264 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5265 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5266 in the following circumstances:
5267
5268 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5269
5270 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5271 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5272
d4f66d37
JM
5273* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5274 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5275
3e181dda
CD
5276* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5277 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5278
ffb89e53
AO
5279* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5280
5d29ccce
SP
5281* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5282 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5283
8b7d57cd 5284* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5285
5286* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5287
fd712ef3 5288* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5289
c688b419
JM
5290* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5291 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5292 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5293 disable some of those declarations.
5294
7011c262 5295* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5296 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5297 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5298
5299* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5300 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5301
5302* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5303 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5304 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5305 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5306 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5307 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5308 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5309 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5310 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5311 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5312 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5313 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5314 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5315\f
5316Version 2.18
5317
5318* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5319
17db6e8d 5320 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5321 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5322 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5323 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5324 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5325 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5326 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5327 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5328 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5329 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5330 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5331 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5332 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5333 15755, 15759.
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CD
5334
5335* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5336 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5337 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5338 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5339 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5340 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5341
5b535ac4
AS
5342* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5343 #15078).
5344
1cef1b19
AS
5345* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5346 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5347
55e4107b
SP
5348* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5349 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5350 destructor calls to glibc.
5351
e5c74c63
SP
5352* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5353 output.
5354
5355* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5356 non-x86 architectures.
5357
e7521973
JM
5358* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5359
5360* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5361
5362* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5363 Richard Henderson.
5364
5365* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5366
5367* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5368 Richard Henderson.
5369
5370* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5371 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5372
8cfdb7e0
SP
5373* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5374
57267616
TS
5375* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5376 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5377
c204ab28
SP
5378* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5379 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5380
0748546f
PE
5381* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5382 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5383 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5384
61dd6208
SP
5385* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5386 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5387 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5388
5389* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5390 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5391 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5392 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5393 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5394
5395* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5396 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5397
5398* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
5399\f
5400Version 2.17
5401
5402* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5403
80ceeaee 5404 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5405 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5406 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5407 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5408 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5409 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5410 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5411 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5412 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5413 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5414 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5415 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5416 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5417 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5418 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5419
95b4f1b6
SE
5420* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5421
14bc93a9
JL
5422* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5423 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5424
b54eb3cb
JM
5425* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5426 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5427
7e2bd01f
MS
5428* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5429
08f43f9b
AK
5430* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5431 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5432 zEnterprise z196.
5433 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5434
84b3fd84
FW
5435* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5436 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5437 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5438
815e6fa3
GB
5439* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5440 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5441
400726de
MK
5442* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5443 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5444
7aab07e4 5445* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5446 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5447
15d0da8c
WS
5448* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5449 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5450
3cc3ef96
RM
5451* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5452 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5453 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5454 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5455
b54eb3cb
JM
5456* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5457 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5458
85429b1a 5459* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5460 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5461 default.
5462
b54eb3cb
JM
5463* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5464 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5465 information in --help and --version output.
5466
050af9c4
SP
5467* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5468 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5469 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5470
89a3ad0b
AO
5471* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5472 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5473 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5474 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5475 when the mode is enabled.
5476
6e6249d0
RM
5477* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5478 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5479 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5480 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5481 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5482 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5483 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5484
d9286582
NK
5485* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5486 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
5487\f
5488Version 2.16
5489
5490* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5491
a8133e19
JM
5492 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5493 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5494 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5495 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5496 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5497 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5498 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5499 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5500 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5501 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5502 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5503 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5504 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5505 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5506 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5507 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5508 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5509 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5510 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5511 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5512 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5513 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5514 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5515
a086b4d6
L
5516* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5517 configuring glibc with:
5518 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5519 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5520 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5521
380d7e87
UD
5522* ISO C11 support:
5523
5524 + define static_assert
5525
5526 + do not declare gets
5527
5528 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5529
5530 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5531 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5532 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5533 implementation.
8d44e150 5534
74033a25 5535 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
5536
5537 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5538
ac097f5c
UD
5539 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5540
16dd419d
UD
5541 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5542
9dc4e1fb 5543* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
5544
5545* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5546
5547* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5549
5550* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5551 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5552
5553* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5554 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5555 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5556 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5557 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5558
21708942 5559* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5560 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5561 before 2.6.
83678f76 5562
edb00e4d
RH
5563* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5564 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5565 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5566
83678f76 5567* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5568
5569* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5570 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5571 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5572 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5573 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5574
5575* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5576
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5577* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5578 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5579
5580* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5581
5582* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5583 without a previously built glibc.
5584
5585* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5586 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5587
5588* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5589 now supported for ARM processors.
5590
5591* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5592 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5593 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5594
5595* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5596
5597* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5598 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5599 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5600 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5601
5602* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5603 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5604 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5605 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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CD
5606
5607* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5608 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5609 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5610 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5611 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5612
5613* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5614 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5615 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5616 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5617\f
e80fab37 5618Version 2.15
11988f8f 5619
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5620* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5621
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5622 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5623 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5624 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5625 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5626 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5627 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5628 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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5630* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5633* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5634 and support for initgroups lookups.
5635 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5636
5637* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5638 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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5639
5640* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5641 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5642
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5643* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5644 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5645 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5646
d42964a0 5647* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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5648 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5649
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5650* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5651 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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5652 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5653
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5654* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5655 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5656
5657* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5659
5660* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5662
5663* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5664 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5665
5666* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5667 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5668
5669* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5670 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5672* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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5673
5674* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5677* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5678 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5679
6b64057b 5680* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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5685
553149f6 5686 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5687 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5688 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5689 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5690 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5691 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5692 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5693 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5694 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5695 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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5697* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5698 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5699 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5700 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5701
5702 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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5703 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5704 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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5705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5706
c6489db3 5707* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5708 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5709
72d1dddb 5710* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5711 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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5713* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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5715* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5716 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5717
5718* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5719 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5720 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5721 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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5724
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5725* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5726
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5727 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5728 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5729 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5730 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5731 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5732
10b3bedc 5733* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5734
ac2b484c 5735* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5736
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5737* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5738 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5741Version 2.12
5742
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5743* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5744
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5745 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5746 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5747 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5748 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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5749 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5750 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5751 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5752 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5753
5754* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 5755
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5756* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5757
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5758* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5759
5760* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5761 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5763
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5764* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5765 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5766 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5767 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5768 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5769
d36b9613 5770* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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5772Version 2.11
5773
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5774* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5775
5776 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5777 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5778 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5779 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5780 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5781 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5782
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5783* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5784 mkostemps64
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5785 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5786
24ab9c76 5787* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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5788 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5789
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5790* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5791 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5792
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5793* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5794
0122f28e 5795* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5796 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5797 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5798 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5799
9d36a6c4 5800 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5802
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5803* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5804 strstr, strcasestr.
5805 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5806
5807* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5808 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5809
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5810* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5811 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5812
5813* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5814 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5815
5816* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5817 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5818 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5819 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5820 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5821 necessity is every process again.
5822 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5823
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5824* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5825 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5826
5827* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5828 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5829
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5830* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5831 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5832 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833
9dd5b8a1 5834* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5835\f
5836Version 2.10
5837
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5838* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5839
5840 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5841 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5842 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5843 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5844 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5845
bb066545 5846* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5847 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5848
425ce2ed 5849* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5851
1fdd89a7 5852* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5853 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5854
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5855* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5856 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5857
1f04d005 5858* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5859 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5860
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5861* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5863
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5864* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5865 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5866
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5867* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5868 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5869
5870* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5871 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5873
735be400 5874* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5875
84aa52d7 5876* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5877 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5878
5879* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5880 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5882
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5883* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5884 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5885
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5886* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5887 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5888 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5889 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5890 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5891 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5893Version 2.9
5894
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5895* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5896
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5897 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5898 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5899 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5900 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5901 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5902
b29899ae 5903* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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5904 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5905
5906* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5907 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5908
5909* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5910 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5911
5912* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5913 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5915
5916* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5917 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5918
8ec2550e 5919* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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5920
5921* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5922 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 5923
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5924* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5925 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5926 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5927 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5928
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5929* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5930 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5932* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5933 Sinhala)
48b22986 5934 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5935
5936* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5938Version 2.8
5939
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5940* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5941
5942 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5943 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5944 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5945 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5946 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5947 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5948 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5949
e038616f 5950* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 5951
77751669 5952* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5954* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5955 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5956
5957* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5958
5959* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5960 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5961
5962* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5963 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5964
5965* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5966 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5967 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5968
5969* Faster memset for x86-64.
5970 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5971
5972* Faster memcpy on x86.
5973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5974
5975* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 5977
7f0d9e61 5978* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5979 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5981Version 2.7
5982
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5983* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5984
5985 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5986 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5987 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5988 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5989 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5990
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5991* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5992 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5993
5994* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5995
5996* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5997 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5998 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5999
6000* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6001 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6002
28919a77 6003* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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6004 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6005
6006* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6007
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6008* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6009 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6010
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6011* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6012 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6013
6014* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6015 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6016
6017* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6018
6019* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6020 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6022* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6023 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6024 yo_NG.
6025
6026+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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11bf311e 6029Version 2.6
46c38bd7 6030
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6032
6033 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6034 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6035 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6036 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6037 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6038 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6039 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6040 4702, 4858
6041
bce20b9a 6042* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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6045
b21fa963 6046* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6049
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6051
6052 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6053 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6054 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6055 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6056 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6057 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6058 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6059 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6060 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6061
3af48b5b 6062* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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6064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6066* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6068
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6071* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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6073* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6074 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6075 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 6076 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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6078
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6080 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6081 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6082 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6083
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6085 Ulrich Drepper.
6086
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6087* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6088
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6089* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6090 Ulrich Drepper.
6091
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6092* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6093
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6094* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6095 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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6098
6099* More overflow detection functions.
6100
6101* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6102 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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6104 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6105 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6106 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6107 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6108 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6109 by Masahide Washizawa.
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6112 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6114* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6115 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6116 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6117 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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6119* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6120 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6121
6122* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6123
6124* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6125 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6126 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6127
6128* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6129 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6130
6131* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6132 for compatibility with some other systems.
6133
6134* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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6137
6138* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6139
6140 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6141 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6142 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6143 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6144 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6145 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6146
5a82c748 6147 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6149* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6150
6151* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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6153Version 2.3.5
6154
6155* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6156
6157 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6158 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6159 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6160 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6161
5a82c748 6162 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6165
6166* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6167 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6168
6169* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6170 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6171 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6172
6173* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6174 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6175
0325dd20 6176* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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6177 efficiently.
6178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6179
6180* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6181 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6182 handling data.
6183
6184* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6185 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6186 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6187
6188* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6189 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6190
6191* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6192 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6193 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6194 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6195
6196* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6197 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6198 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6199 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6200
6201* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6202 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6203 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6204 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6205 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6207Version 2.3.3
6208
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6209* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6210 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6211
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6212* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6213 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 6214
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6216 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6217
6218* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6219 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6221* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6222 by Roland McGrath.
6223
c5af724c 6224* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6225 and Ulrich Drepper.
6226
6227* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6228 RFC 3484.
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6230Version 2.3.2
6231
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6232* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6233 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6234 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6235 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6236 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6237 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6238 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6239 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6240 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6241
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6242* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6243 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6244 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6245
6246* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6247
6248* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6249 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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6251* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6252 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6253
52a16e58 6254* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6256* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6257 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 6258
7f0d9e61 6259* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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6260 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6261 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6262 of weak definition in ld.so.
6263
6264* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6265 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6266
6267* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6268 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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6272* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6273 charsets.
6274
6275* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6276 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 6277
bb0ec5bd 6278* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6279 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6281* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6282 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6283
bb0ec5bd 6284* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6285 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6286 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6288* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6289 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6290
bb0ec5bd 6291* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6292 implementation of regex.
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6293
6294* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6295 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 6296
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6297* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6298 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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6300* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6301 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6302 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6303
6304* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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6306
6307* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6308 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6309 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6310
6311* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6312 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6313
6314* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6315 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6316 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6317
6318* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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6320Version 2.2.6
6321
6322* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6323 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6324
6325* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6326 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6328Version 2.2.5
6329
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6330* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6331 128-bit long double format.
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6333* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6334 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6335
ad2e4f18 6336* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 6337
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6338* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6339
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6340* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6341 as well.
6342
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6343* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6344 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6345
6346* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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6348Version 2.2.4
6349
2995f70e 6350* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6351 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6352
6353* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6354 support Unicode 3.1.
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6355
6356* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6357 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6358
69d5f925 6359* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6360
69d5f925 6361* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6362 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6363 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6364
6365* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6366 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6367
6368* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6369 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6370
6371* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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6373Version 2.2.3
6374
1746f2b0 6375* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6376 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6377 in float, double, and long double format.
6378
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6380 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6381 128-bit long double format.
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6383* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6384 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6385 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6386 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6387
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6388* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6389 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6390 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6391
6392* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6393 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6394
6395* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6396 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6398* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6399 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6400 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6402* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6403 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6405* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6406 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6408* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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6410Version 2.2.2
6411
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6413 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6414 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6415 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6416 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6417 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6418 other headers.
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6420* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6421 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6422
6423* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6424 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6425 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6426 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6427
6428* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6429 locales. While
6430
6431 locale -a
6432
6433 only lists the names of the supported locales
6434
6435 locale -a --verbose
6436
6437 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6438 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6441
6442* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6443 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6444 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6445 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6446 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6447
6448 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6449
6450 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6451
6452 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6453
6454* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6455 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6456 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6458* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6459 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6460
6461* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6462 changed from the default "C" locale.
6463
6464* The usual bug fixes.
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6467
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6468* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6469 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6470 is in progress.
6471
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6472* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6473
793bd4d9 6474* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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6476 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6477 obviously requires a database library being available.
6478
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6479* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6480
abbffdf9 6481* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6483* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6484 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6485
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6486* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6487
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6488* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6489 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6490 and Mark Kettenis.
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6491
6492 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6493 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6494 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6495
a00c3ca9 6496 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6497 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6498
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6499* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6500 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6501 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6502
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6503* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6504 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6505 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6506 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6507
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6508 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6509 structures for the wide character tables.
6510
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6511* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6512
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6514
6515* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6516
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6517* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6518 and Yutaka Niibe.
6519
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6520* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6521
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6522* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6523
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6524* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6525
6526* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6527
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6528* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6529
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6531 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6532 implemented for Linux.
6533
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6535 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6536 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6537 versions.
6538
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6539* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6540 Masahide Washizawa.
6541
8f3f1e09 6542* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6544Version 2.1.3
6545
6546* bug fixes
6547
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6549Version 2.1.2
6550
6551* bug fixes
6552
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6554Version 2.1.1
6555
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6557
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6558* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6559
407d26b7 6560* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6561
6562* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6563
407d26b7 6564* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6565
407d26b7 6566* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6567
6568* Update timezone data files.
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6570* lots of charmaps corrections
6571
6572* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6573
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6575Version 2.1
6576
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6577* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6578 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6579 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6580 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6581 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6582 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6583
c84142e8 6584* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6585 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6586
1fb05e3d 6587* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6588 symbol level.
6589
7f0d9e61 6590* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 6591 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6592
cbdee279 6593* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6595* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6596 numbers.
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cbdee279 6598* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
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6600* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6601 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6602
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6603* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6604 library.
6605
e61abf83 6606* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6607 functions from ISO C 9X.
6608
6609* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6610 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6611
a5a0310d 6612* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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6614* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6615
6616* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6617
440d13e2 6618* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6620* Optimized string functions have been added.
6621
6622* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6624* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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6627 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6628
6629 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6630 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6631
0dee6738 6632 user system wall
48244d09 6633
0dee6738 6634 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6635
0dee6738 6636 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6637
0dee6738 6638 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6640 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6641
6642 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6643
6644 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6647 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6648 horribly slow.
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6650 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6651 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6653* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6655* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6657* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6658 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6659
6660* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6663 Bambrough.
6664
6665* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6666 latest draft standards.
6667
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6669
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6671~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 6672addseverity NEW: Unix98
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6674argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6675argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6676argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6677argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6678argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6679argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6680argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6681argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6682argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6683argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6685authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6686authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6688backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6689backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6690cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6691cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6692cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6693cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6694cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6695cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6696capget NEW: kernel
6697capset NEW: kernel
6698carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6699cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6700cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6701casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6702casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6703casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6704casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6705casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6706casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6707catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6708catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6709catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6710catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6711catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6712catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6714ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
6715ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6716ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6717ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6718ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6719ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6720cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6721cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6722cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6723cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6724cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6725cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6726clearerr_locked REMOVED
6727clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6728clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6729clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6730clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6731clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6732clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6733clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6734conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6735conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6736conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6737cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6738cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6739cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6740cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6741cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6742cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6743creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6744crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6745creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6746creat64 NEW: LFS
6747csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6748csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6749csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6750csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6751csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6752csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6753csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6754csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6755csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6756ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6757ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6758ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6759ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6760ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6761ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6762des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6763ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6764endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6765exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6766exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6767exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6768exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6769exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6770exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6771fattach NEW: STREAMS
6772fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6773fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6774fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6775fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6776feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6777fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6778fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6779fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6780feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6781feof_locked REMOVED
6782feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6783ferror_locked REMOVED
6784fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6785fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6786fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6787fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6788feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6789fflush_locked REMOVED
6790ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6791ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6792fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6793fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6794fileno_locked REMOVED
6795fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6796fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6797fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6798fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6799fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6800fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6801fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6802fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6803fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6804fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6805fopen64 NEW: LFS
6806fputc_locked REMOVED
6807fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6808fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6809freopen64 NEW: LFS
6810fseeko NEW: Unix98
6811fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6812fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6813fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6814fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6815ftello NEW: Unix98
6816ftello64 NEW: LFS
6817ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6818ftw64 NEW: LFS
6819fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6820gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6821gamma_r REMOVED
6822gammaf_r REMOVED
6823gammal_r REMOVED
6824getchar_locked REMOVED
6825getdate NEW: Unix98
6826getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6827getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6828getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6829getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6831getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6832getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6833getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6834getutxent NEW: Unix98
6835getutxid NEW: Unix98
6836getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6837glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6838globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6839gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6840gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6841grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
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6843iconv NEW: iconv
6844iconv_close NEW: iconv
6845iconv_open NEW: iconv
6846if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6847if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6848if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6849if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6850in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6851in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6852inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6853isastream NEW: STREAMS
6854iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6855key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6856key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6857key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6858key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6859key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6860key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6861key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6862key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6863key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6864llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6865llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6866llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6867llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6868llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6869llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6870log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6871log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6872log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6873lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6874lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6875lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6876lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6877lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6878lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6879lseek64 NEW: LFS
6880makecontext NEW: Unix98
6881mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6882mmap64 NEW: LFS
6883moncontrol REMOVED
6884modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6885nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6886nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6887nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6888nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6889nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6890nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6891netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6892netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6893nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6894nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6895nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6896nftw NEW: Unix98
6897nftw64 NEW: LFS
6898open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6899passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6900pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6901pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6902pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6903pread NEW: Unix98
6904pread64 NEW: LFS
6905printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6906printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6907profil_counter REMOVED
6908pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6909pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6910ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6911ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6912putc_locked REMOVED
6913putchar_locked REMOVED
6914putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6915putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6916putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6917pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6918pwrite NEW: Unix98
6919pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6920readdir64 NEW: LFS
6921readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6922remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6923remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6924remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6925round NEW: ISO C 9x
6926roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6927roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6928rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6929scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6930scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6931scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6932scandir64 NEW: LFS
6933sendfile NEW: kernel
6934setcontext NEW: Unix98
6935setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6936setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6937sighold NEW: Unix98
6938sigignore NEW: Unix98
6939sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6940sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6941sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6942sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6943sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6944sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6945sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6946sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6947statfs64 NEW: LFS
6948statvfs NEW: Unix98
6949statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6950strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6951strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6952strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6953strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
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6956svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6957swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6958tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6959tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6960tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6961tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6962tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6963tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6964trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6965truncate64 NEW: LFS
6966truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6967truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6968umount2 NEW: kernel
6969unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6970updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6971user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6972utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6973versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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6976wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6977wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6978wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6979wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6980wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6981wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6982wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6983wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6984wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6985wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6986write_profiling REMOVED
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6988xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6989xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6990xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6991xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6992xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6993xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6994xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6995xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6996xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6997xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6998xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6999xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7000xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 7001xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 7002~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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7004Version 2.0.6
7005
7006* more bug fixes
7007
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7009Version 2.0.5
7010
7011* more bug fixes
7012
7013* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7014
7015* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7016
7017* rewrite of cbrt function
7018
7019* update of timezone data
7020\f
7021Version 2.0.4
7022
7023* more bug fixes
7024\f
7025Version 2.0.3
7026
7027* more bug fixes
c84142e8 7028\f
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7030
7031* more bug fixes
7032
7033* add atoll function
7034
7035* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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7037* fix math functions
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7039Version 2.0.1
7040
7041* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7042
7043* dynamic loader preserves all registers
7044
7045* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7046 the ELF dynamic loader.
7047
7048* support for parallel builds is improved
7049\f
40a4b79f 7050Version 2.0
28f540f4 7051
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7052* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7053 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7054 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
7055
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7056* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7057 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7058 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7059 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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7060 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7061 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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7063 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7064 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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7066 files in the ELF format.
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7068* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7069 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7070
7071* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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7073 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7074 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7075 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7076 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7077 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7078 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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7080 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7081 about dynamically linked binaries.
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7084 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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7085 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7086 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7087 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 7088
f7eac6eb 7089* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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7090 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7091 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7092 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7093 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7094
7095* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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7097* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7098 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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7099 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7100 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7101 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7102 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7103 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7104 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7105 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 7106
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7107* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7108 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7109 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7110
7111* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7112 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7113 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7114
7115* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7116 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7117 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7118 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7119
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7120* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7121 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7122 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7123
7124* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7125 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7126 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7127
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7128* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7129 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7130
f7eac6eb 7131* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 7132 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 7133 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 7134 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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7135
7136* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7137 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7138 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 7139
71733723 7140* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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7141 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7142 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7143 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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7144 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7145 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 7146 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 7147 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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7148
7149* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7150 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7151 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7152 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7153 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7154 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7155 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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7156
7157* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7158 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7159 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7160 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7161 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7162 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7163
7164* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7165 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7166
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7167* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7168 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7169 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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7171* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7172
7173* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7174 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7175 their use is discouraged.
7176
7177* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7178 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7180* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7181 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7182
7183* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7184 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7185
7186* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7187 see <dirent.h>.
7188
7189* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7190 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7191 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7192 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7193 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7194
7195* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7196 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7197 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7198 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7199
7200* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7201 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7202
7203* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7204 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7205 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7206 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7207 number generator.
7208
7209* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7210 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7211
7212* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7213 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7214
71733723 7215* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7216 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7217 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7218 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 7219
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7220* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7221
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7222* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7223 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7224 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7225
7226* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7227 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 7228
c709e372 7229* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7230 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7231 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7232 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7233
7234* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7235 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7236 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7237 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7238 programs already written to use it.)
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7239
7240* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7241 constants.
7242
7243* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7244 with 4.4 BSD.
7245
7246* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7247 a given effective group ID.
7248
7249* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7250 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7251 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7252 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7253
7254* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7255 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7256 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7257 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7258 doing the same thing.
7259
7260* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7261 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7262
7263* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7264 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7265
7266* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7267
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7268* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7269 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7270 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7271 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7272 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7273
7274* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7275 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7276
7277* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7278 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7279 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7280 function.
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7281
7282* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7283
7284* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7285 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7286 strings.
7287
7288* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7289 and writing the utmp file.
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7290
7291* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7292 Thorsten Kukuk.
7293
7294* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7295 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7296 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7297
7298* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7299 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7300
7301* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7302 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7303 specification.
7304
7305* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7306 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7307 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7308 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7309
7310* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7311 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7312 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7313
7314* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7315 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7316 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7317 expression matcher.
7318
7319* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7320 functionality.
7321
7322* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7323 by Ulrich Drepper.
7324
7325* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7326
7327* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7328 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7329 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7331Version 1.09
7332
7333* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7334
7335* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7336 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7337
7338* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7339 want to put themselves in the background.
7340
7341* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7342 run without an operating system.
7343
7344* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7345 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7346
7347* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7348 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7349
7350* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7351
7352* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7353 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7354 have YP (aka NIS).
7355
7356* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7357 conventions.
7358
7359* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7360 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7361\f
7362Version 1.08
7363
7364* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7365 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7366 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7367
7368* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7369 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7370
7371* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7372 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7373
7374* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7375
7376* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7377
7378* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7379 compatibility.
7380
7381* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7382 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7383 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7384
7385* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7386
7387* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7388 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7389 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7390
7391* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7392 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7393 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7394 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7395 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7396 on a block).
7397
7398* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7399 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7400 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7401 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7402 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7403 cross-compiler.
7404
7405* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7406 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7407\f
7408Version 1.07
7409
7410* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7411 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7412
7413* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7414 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7415 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7416
7417* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7418 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7419 address of the last character written.
7420
7421* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7422 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7423
7424* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7425 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7426
7427* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7428 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7429 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7430 you dereference this pointer.
7431
7432* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7433 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7434
7435* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7436 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7437 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7438 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7439
7440* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7441 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7442 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7443 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7444\f
7445Version 1.06
7446
7447* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7448 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7449 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7450 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7451 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7452
7453* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7454
7455* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7456
7457* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7458 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7459
7460* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7461 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7462
7463* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7464 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7465
7466* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7467 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7468 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7469 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7470 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7471
7472* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7473 to the error code in `errno'.
7474
7475* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7476 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7477 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7478 malloc'd string.
7479
7480* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7481 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7482 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7483
7484* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7485 uniquely-named temporary file.
7486\f
7487Version 1.05
7488
7489* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7490 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7491 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7492
7493* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7494 characters.
7495
7496* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7497 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7498
7499* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7500\f
7501Version 1.04
7502
7503* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7504 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7505 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7506 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7507
7508* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7509 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7510 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7511
7512* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7513 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7514
7515* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7516 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7517 made itself into a shared library.
7518
7519* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7520 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7521
7522* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7523 with limited length.
7524
7525* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7526
7527* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7528
7529* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7530
7531* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7532 function for traversing a directory tree.
7533
7534* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7535 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7536 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7537 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7538
7539* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7540 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7541
7542* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7543
7544* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7545 things to your strings.
7546
7547* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7548
7549* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7550 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7551 supporting those systems.
7552
7553* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7554 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7555 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7556 configuration files.
7557
7558* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7559 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7560
7561* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7562 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7563 in <strings.h>.)
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7564
7565* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7566 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7567 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7568 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7569 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7570 required storage is not available.
7571
7572* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7573 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7574
7575* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7576 latest files released from Berkeley.
7577\f
7578----------------------------------------------------------------------
9fcdec73 7579Copying conditions:
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7580
7581 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7582 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7583 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7584 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7585
7586 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7587 of this document, or of portions of it,
7588 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7589 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7590\f
7591Local variables:
7592version-control: never
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