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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 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 2.28
9
10Major new features:
11
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12* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
14
15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
16 fMxaddfNx functions.
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18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
19 fMxsubfNx functions.
20
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21 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
22 fMxmulfNx functions.
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24 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
25 fMxdivfNx functions.
26
c4ad5782 27* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
2e0c5de6 28 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Scottish Gaelic,
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29 Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now support
30 abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
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32* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
33 patches.
34
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35* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
36 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
37 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
38 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
39 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
40 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
41 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
42 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
43 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
44
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45* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
46 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
47 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
48 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
49 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
50 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
51 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
52 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
53 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
54 results in a load failure now.
55
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56Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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58* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
59 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
60 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
61
62* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
63 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
64 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
65 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
66 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
67 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
68
69* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
70 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
71 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
72 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
73 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
74 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
75 (Bug #1190.)
76
77* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
78 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
79 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
80 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
81 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
82 further explanation.
83
84 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
85 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
86 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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88* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
89
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90* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
91 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
92 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
93
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94* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
95 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
96 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
97 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
98
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99* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
100 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
101 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
102 for this function instead.
103
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104* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
105 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
106 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
107
108* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
109 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
110 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
111 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
112
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113* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
114 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
115 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
116 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
117 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
118
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119* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
120 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
121 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
122 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
123 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
124 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
125 such as libgcrypt.
126
127* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
128 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
129 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
130 enabled.
131
132* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
133 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
134 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
135
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136* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
137 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
138 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
139 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
140 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
141 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
142
143 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
144 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
145 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
146 behavior in a future release.
147
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148Changes to build and runtime requirements:
149
150 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
151
152Security related changes:
153
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154 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
155 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
156 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
157 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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159 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
160 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
161
162 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
163 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
164 Izbyshev.
165
166 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
167 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
168 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
169
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170The following bugs are resolved with this release:
171
172 [The release manager will add the list generated by
173 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
174
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176Version 2.27
177
178Major new features:
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180* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
181 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 182 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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183 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
184 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
185 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
186 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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187 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
188 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 189
ac817e08 190* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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191 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
192 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 193
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194* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
195
4cf82d23 196* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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198* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
199 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
200 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
201 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
202 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
203 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
204 from a security and performance perspective.
205
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206* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
207 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
208 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
209 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
210
81325b12 211* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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212 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
213 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
214 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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215 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
216
a23aa5b7 217* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 218 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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219 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
220 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
221 _Float128.
222
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223* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
224 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
225 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 226
4bab0224 227* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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229* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
230 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
231 pkey_get.
232
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233* The copy_file_range function was added.
234
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235* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
236
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237* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
238 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
239 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
240
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241* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
242 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
243 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
244 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
245 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
246 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
247 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
248
249 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
250 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
251 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
252 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
253 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
254 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
255 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
256
257 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
258 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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259 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
260 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
261 respectively.
262
263 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
264 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
265 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
266 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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268 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
269 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
270 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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272 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
273 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 274 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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276* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
277 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
278 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
279
280 - rv64imac lp64
281 - rv64imafdc lp64
282 - rv64imafdc lp64d
283
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284Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
285
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286* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
287 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 288 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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289 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
290 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
291 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
292 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
293 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
294 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
295 fix this.
296
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297* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
298 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
299 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
300
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301* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
302 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
303 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
304 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
305 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
306 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
307 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
308 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
309 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
310 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
311 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
312 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
313 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
314 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
315 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
316 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
317 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
318 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
319 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
320 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
321 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
322 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
323 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
324 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
325 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
326 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
327
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328* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
329 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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331* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
332 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
333 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
334 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
335 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
336 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
337 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
338
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339* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
340 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
341 exp10l for these functions instead.
342
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343* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
344 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
345 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
346
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347* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
348 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
349 ignored.
350
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351* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
352 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
353 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
354 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
355
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356* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
357 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
358
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359* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
360 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
361
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362* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
363 programs.
364
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365* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
366
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367* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
368 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
369 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
370 instead.
371
372 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
373 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
374 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
375 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
376 use, but predates the bits convention.
377
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378Changes to build and runtime requirements:
379
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380* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
381 subdirectory.
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383Security related changes:
384
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385 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
386 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
387 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
388 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
389 script.)
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391 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
392 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
393 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
394 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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396 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
397 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
398 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
399 of service.
400
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401 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
402 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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403 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
404
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405 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
406 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
407 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
408 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
409
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410 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
411 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
412 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
413 Qualys.
414
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415 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
416 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
417 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
418 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
419 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
420
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421 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
422 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
423 current directory.
424
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425 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
426 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
427 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
428
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429 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
430 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
431 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
432
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433 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
434 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
435 small, instead of NULL.
436
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439 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
440 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
441 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
442 locale
443 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
444 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
445 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
446 cases
447 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
448 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
449 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
450 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
451 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
452 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
453 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
454 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
455 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
456 "Bangla"
457 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
458 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
459 width Latin characters
460 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
461 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
462 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
463 letters
464 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
465 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
466 (CVE-2009-5064)
467 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
468 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
469 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
470 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
471 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
472 if malloc succeeded
473 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
474 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
475 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
476 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
477 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
478 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
479 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
480 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
481 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
482 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
483 U+309A
484 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
485 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
486 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
487 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
488 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
489 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
490 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
491 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
492 for Nicaragua
493 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
494 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
495 are not found.
496 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
497 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
498 access
499 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
500 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
501 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
502 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
503 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
504 __regcall calling convention
505 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
506 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
507 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
508 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
509 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
510 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
511 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
512 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
513 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
514 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
515 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
516 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
517 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
518 locale
519 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
520 protector=all
521 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
522 wcwidth
523 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
524 consistency check failures
525 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
526 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
527 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
528 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
529 PIE
530 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
531 locales
532 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
533 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
534 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
535 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
536 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
537 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
538 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
539 on memory allocation failure
540 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
541 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
542 the suspect)
543 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
544 default (i386)
545 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
546 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
547 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
548 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
549 instead of EAI_NODATA
550 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
551 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
552 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
553 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
554 implementation
555 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
556 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
557 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
558 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
559 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
560 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
561 allocation in syscall loops)
562 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
563 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
564 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
565 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
566 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
567 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
568 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
569 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
570 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
571 occur with -O3
572 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
573 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
574 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
575 amounts)
576 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
577 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
578 niu_NZ
579 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
580 checks
581 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
582 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
583 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
584 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
585 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
586 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
587 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
588 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
589 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
590 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
591 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
592 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
593 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
594 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
595 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
596 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
597 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
598 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
599 parsing after OOM
600 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
601 object
602 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
603 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
604 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
605 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
606 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
607 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
608 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
609 ppc64le
610 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
611 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
612 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
613 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
614 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
615 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
616 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
617 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
618 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
619 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
620 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
621 math_force_eval
622 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
623 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
624 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
625 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
626 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
627 the svid compat wrapper
628 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
629 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
630 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
631 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
632 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
633 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
634 --verbose.
635 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
636 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
637 to 2.26
638 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
639 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
640 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
641 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
642 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
643 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
644 (CVE-2017-15804)
645 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
646 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
647 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
648 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
649 failure."
650 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
651 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
652 -m32
653 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
654 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
655 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
656 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
657 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
658 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
659 inside the ASCII printable range
660 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
661 -mlong-double-64
662 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
663 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
664 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
665 Internet
666 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
667 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
668 backslash
669 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
670 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
671 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
672 heaps in an arena
673 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
674 networking interface
675 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
676 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
677 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
678 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
679 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
680 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
681 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
682 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
683 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
684 order
685 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
686 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
687 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
688 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
689 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
690 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
691 same as for Croatian
692 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
693 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
694 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
695 for initial thread"
696 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
697 SC_SSIZE_MAX
698 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
699 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
700 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
701 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
702 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
703 (CVE-2017-1000408)
704 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
705 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
706 modified in case of success
707 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
708 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
709 success
710 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
711 stack-protector=all
712 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
713 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
714 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
715 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
716 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
717 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
718 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
719 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
720 adding it on top
721 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
722 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
723 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
724 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
725 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
726 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
727 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
728 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
729 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
730 (CVE-2018-1000001)
731 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
732 elision and tunables
733 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
734 "invalid" exception
735 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
736 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
737 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
738 exception
739 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
740 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
741 power4
742 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
743 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
744 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
745 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
746 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
747 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
748 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
749 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
750 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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754
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756
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758 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
759 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
760 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
761 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
762 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
763 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
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765* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
766 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 767 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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768 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
769 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
770 are rendered with pango, see for example:
771 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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773* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
774 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
775 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 777* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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779 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
780 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
781 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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783 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
784 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
785 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
786 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
787 object are still limited to six search domains.
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789 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
790 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
791 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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793* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
794 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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796* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
797 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
798 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
799 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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801* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
802 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
803 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
804 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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806* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
807 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
808 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
809 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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812 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
813 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
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2b2ccd0c 815* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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816 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
817 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
818 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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822 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
823 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
824 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
825
826 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
827 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
828 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
829 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
830 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
831 interfaces should be used instead.
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834
835* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
836 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
837 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
838 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
839 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
840 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
841 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
842 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
843
844* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
845 removed.
846
847* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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849 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
850 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
851
852* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
853 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
854 default.
855
856 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
857 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
858 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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859 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
860 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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862 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
863 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
864 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
865 name service modules, to be built and installed.
866
867* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
868 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
869 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
870 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
871
872* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
873 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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876 exported by accident.
877
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879 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
880 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
881
882* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
883 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
884 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
885 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
886
887* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
888
889* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
890
891* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
892 free instead.
893
894* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
895 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
896
897* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
898 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
899
900* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
901 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
902 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
903 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
904 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
905 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
906 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
907 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
908
909* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
910 synced with the kernel:
911
912 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
913 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
914
915 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
916 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
917 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
918
919 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
920 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
921
922Changes to build and runtime requirements:
923
924* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
925 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
926 x86-32 and x86-64.)
927
7e368000 928* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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931 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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933 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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934 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
935 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
936 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 937 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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940
e14a2772 941* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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942 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
943
944* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
945 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
946
947* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
948 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
949 (CVE-2010-3192).
950
951* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
952 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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954The following bugs are resolved with this release:
955
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956 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
957 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
958 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
959 fields
960 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
961 (CVE-2010-3192)
962 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
963 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
964 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
965 ld.bfd is available
966 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
967 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
968 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
969 x86 and other generic code
970 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
971 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
972 incorrect
973 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
974 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
975 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
976 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
977 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
978 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
979 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
980 resolver
981 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
982 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
983 order of 0D36 and 0D37
984 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
985 chillu characters
986 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
987 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
988 receiving data
989 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
990 whitespace
991 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
992 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
993 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
994 for Peru
995 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
996 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
997 failures consistently
998 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
999 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1000 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1001 frame-pointer on i386
1002 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1003 register
1004 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1005 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1006 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1007 generic c code is used
1008 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1009 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1010 around 4000
1011 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1012 (CVE-2017-12133)
1013 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1014 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1015 with -lieee
1016 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1017 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1018 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1019 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1020 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1021 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1022 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1023 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1024 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1025 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1026 remove()
1027 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1028 checked for errors.
1029 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1030 new posix_spawn implementation
1031 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1032 leads to lower CPU frequency
1033 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1034 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1035 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1036 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1037 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1038 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1039 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1040 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1041 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1042 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1043 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1044 not support gethostbyname4_r
1045 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1046 switching
1047 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1048 arenas
1049 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1050 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1051 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1052 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1053 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1054 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1055 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1056 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1057 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1058 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1059 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1060 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1061 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1062 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1063 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1064 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1065 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1066 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1067 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1068 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1069 retry value
1070 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1071 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1072 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1073 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1074 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1075 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1076 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1077 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1078 [21537] libc:
1079 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1080 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1081 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1082 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1083 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1084 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1085 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1086 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1087 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1088 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1089 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1090 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1091 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1092 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1093 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1094 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1095 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1096 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1097 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1098 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1099 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1100 issue on x86-64
1101 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1102 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1103 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1104 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1105 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1106 construction
1107 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1108 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1109 between_2_3
1110 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1111 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1112 conditions
1113 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1114 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1115 Hindi Locale
1116 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1117 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1118 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1119 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1120 locale
1121 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1122 leading to relocation crash
1123 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1124 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1125 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1126 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1127 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1128 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1129 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1130 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1131 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1132 locale
1133 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1134 locale
1135 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1136 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1137 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1138 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1139 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1140 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1141 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1142 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1143 strings
1144 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1145 protector=all
1146 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1147 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1148 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1149 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1150 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1151 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1152 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1153 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1154 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1155 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1156 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1157 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1158 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1159 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1160 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1161 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1162 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1163 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1164 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1165 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1166 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1167 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1168 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1169 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1170 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1171 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1172 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1173 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1174 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1175 with unicode 9.0
1176 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1177 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1178 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1179 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1180 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1184
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1185* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1186 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1187 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1188 Library.
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1190* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1191 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1192 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1193 the GNU C Library.
1194
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1195* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1196 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1197 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1198 the GNU C Library.
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1200* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1201 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1202 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1203 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1204 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1205 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1206 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1207 will not.
1208
1209 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1210 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1211 many years.
1212
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1214 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1215 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1216
1217 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1218 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1219 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1220 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1221 problem.
1222
ec94343f 1223* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1225 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1227* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1228 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1229 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1230 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1231 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1232 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1233 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1234 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1235 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1236 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1237 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1238 WINT_WIDTH.
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1240* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1241
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1242 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1243
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1244 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1245 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1246 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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1248 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1249 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1250
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1251 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1252 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1253
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1254 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1255
29cb9293 1256 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1258 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1259 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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1262
eb3c12c7 1263 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1264 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1266* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1267 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1268
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1269* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1270 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1271 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1272
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1274 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1275 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1276 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1277 effects of the memory clear).
1278
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1279* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1280 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1281 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1282 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1283
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1284* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1285 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1286 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1287 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1288 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1289 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1291* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1292 have been added.
1293
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1294* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1295 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1296 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1297 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1298 as large as several megabytes.
1299
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1300* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1301 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1302 been removed.
1303
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1304* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1305 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1306 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1307 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1308 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1309 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1310 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
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1312* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1313 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1314 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1315 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1316
099191b1 1317* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1318 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1319 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1320 Internet.
1321
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1322* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1323 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1324 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 1325
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1326* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1327 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1328 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1329 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1330
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1331* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1332 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1333 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1334 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1335 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1336
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1337* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1338 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1339 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1340 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1341 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1342
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1343* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1344 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1345 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1346 did not reflect that.
1347
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1348* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1349 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1350 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1351 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1352 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1353 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1354 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1355 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1356
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1357* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1358 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1359 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1360 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1361
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1362* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1363 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1364 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1365 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1366
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1367* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1368 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1369 guarantees.
1370
1371* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1372 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1373 make state changes.
1374
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1375Security related changes:
1376
fc82b0a2 1377* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1378 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1379 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1380 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1381 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 1382
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1383* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1384 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1385 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1386 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1387 (CVE-2015-5180)
1388
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1389The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1390
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1391 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1392 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1393 protector-all
1394 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1395 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1396 before it started waiting
1397 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1398 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1399 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1400 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1401 wrong type
1402 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1403 library linked with pthread
1404 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1405 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1406 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1407 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1408 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1409 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1410 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1411 when it shouldnt
1412 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1413 not
1414 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1415 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1416 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1417 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1418 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1419 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1420 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1421 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1422 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1423 termination
1424 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1425 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1426 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1427 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1428 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1429 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1430 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1431 causes a segmentation fault
1432 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1433 linking
1434 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1435 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1436 uninitialized GOT
1437 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1438 versions
1439 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1440 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1441 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1442 is always true.
1443 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1444 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1445 modes
1446 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1447 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1448 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1449 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1450 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1451 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1452 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1453 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1454 libpthread.a
1455 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1456 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1457 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1458 _res_hconf
1459 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1460 information.
1461 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1462 penalty
1463 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1464 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1465 cause transition penalty
1466 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1467 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1468 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1469 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1470 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1471 mcount.oS)
1472 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1473 Checking
1474 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1475 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1476 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1477 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1478 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1479 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1480 multi-arch
1481 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1482 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1483 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1484 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1485 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1486 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1487 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1488 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1489 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1490 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1491 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1492 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1493 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1494 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1495 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1496 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1497 glibc
1498 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1499 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1500 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1501 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1502 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1503 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1504 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1505 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1506 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1507 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1508 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1509 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1510 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1511 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1512 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1513 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1514 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1515 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1516 RES_USE_INET6
1517 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1518 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1519 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1520 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1521 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1522 wrong condition
1523 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1524 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1525 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1526 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1527 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1528 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1529 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1530 clang
1531 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1532 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1533 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1534 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1535 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1536\f
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1537Version 2.24
1538
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1539* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1540 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1541 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1542 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1543 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1544 architectures.
1545
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1546* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1547 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1548 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1549
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1550* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1551 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1552
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1553* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1554 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1555 instead of “union wait”.
1556
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1557* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1558 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1559 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1560 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1561 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1562 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1563 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1564
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1565* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1566 API.
1567
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1568* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1569 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1570 drop it.
6a54bcda 1571
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RS
1572* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1573 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1574 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1575 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1576 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1577 extensions.
1578
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1579Security related changes:
1580
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1581* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1582 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1583 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1584
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1585* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1586 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1587 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1588 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1589
5171f307
FW
1590* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1591 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1592 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1593
bc779a1a
FW
1594* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1595 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1596 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1597
fab38231
FW
1598* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1599 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1600 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1601 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1602
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1603The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1604
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1605 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1606 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1607 of MS-DOS.
1608 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1609 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1610 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1611 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1612 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1613 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1614 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1615 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1616 CLDR data
1617 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1618 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1619 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1620 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1621 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1622 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1623 romanisation
1624 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1625 and +/-
1626 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1627 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1628 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1629 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1630 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1631 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1632 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1633 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1634 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1635 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1636 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1637 all locales
1638 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1639 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1640 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1641 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1642 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1643 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1644 execute
1645 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1646 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1647 -Wsystem-headers
1648 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1649 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1650 Romanian locale data
1651 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1652 symbol
1653 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1654 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1655 language
1656 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1657 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1658 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1659 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1660 machine
1661 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1662 description
1663 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1664 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1665 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1666 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1667 when using RTLD_NEXT
1668 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1669 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1670 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1671 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1672 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1673 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1674 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1675 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1676 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1677 Excavator core
1678 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1679 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1680 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1681 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1682 double range
1683 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1684 part zero incorrect
1685 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1686 equality tests
1687 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1688 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1689 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1690 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1691 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1692 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1693 glibc-2.22
1694 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1695 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1696 'tst-numeric.c'
1697 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1698 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1699 low part
1700 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1701 result
1702 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1703 unaligned stack
1704 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1705 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1706 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1707 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1708 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1709 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1710 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1711 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1712 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1713 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1714 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1715 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1716 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1717 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1718 modes
1719 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1720 server addresses
1721 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1722 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1723 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1724 response to getaddrinfo
1725 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1726 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1727 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1728 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1729 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1730 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1731 sometimes incorrect
1732 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1733 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1734 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1735 record types
1736 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1737 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1738 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1739 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1740 (CVE-2016-3075)
1741 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1742 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1743 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1744 resolving symbols
1745 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1746 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1747 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1748 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1749 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1750 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1751 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1752 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1753 gethosts
1754 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1755 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1756 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1757 (CVE-2016-3706)
1758 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1759 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1760 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1761 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1762 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1763 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1764 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1765 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1766 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1767 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1768 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1769 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1770 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1771 executable
1772 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1773 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1774 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1775 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1776 XPG3
1777 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1778 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1779 (CVE-2016-4429)
1780 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1781 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1782 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1783 AS not supporting AVX512
1784 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1785 sNaN argument
1786 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1787 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1788 argument
1789 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1790 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1791 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1792 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1793 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1794 eax=0x80000001
1795 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1796 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1797 subnormals
1798 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1799 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1800 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1801 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1802 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1803 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1804 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1805 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1806 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1807 input
1808 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1809 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1810 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1811 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1812 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1813 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1814 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1815 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1816 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1817 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1818 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1819 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1820 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1821 double rounding
1822 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1823 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1824 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1825 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1826 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1827 (Only arm/linux)
1828 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1829 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1830 fallbacks
1831 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1832 "invalid" exceptions
1833 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1834 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1835 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1836 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1837 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1838 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1839 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1840 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1841 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1843Version 2.23
1844
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1845* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1846 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1847 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1848 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1849 89, 16061, and 18568.
1850
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1851* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1852 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1853 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1854 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1855 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1856 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1857 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1858
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1859* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1860 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1861 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1862
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1863* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1864 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1865 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1866 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1867 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1868 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1869 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1870
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1871* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1872 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1873 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1874 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1875 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1876 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1877 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1878 Ericsson.)
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1880* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1881 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1882 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1883 independent of the GNU C Library.
1884
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1885* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1886 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1888* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1889 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1890 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1891 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1892 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1893 Linux kernel.
1894
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1895* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1896 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1898* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1899 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1900 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1901 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1902 defining their own copy.
1903
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1904* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1905 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1906 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1908Security related changes:
1909
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1910* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1911 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1912
1913* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1914 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1915 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1916 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1917 (CVE-2015-8777)
1918
1919* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1920 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1921
1922* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1923 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1924
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1925* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1926 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1927 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1929* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1930 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1931 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1932 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1933 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1934 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1935 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1936 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1937 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1938 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1939 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1940 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1941 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1942
ad372e29 1943The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1945 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1946 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1947 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1948 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1949 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1950 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1951 use `mkstemp'
1952 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1953 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1954 overflow/underflow errors
1955 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1956 overflow/underflow
1957 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1958 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1959 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1960 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1961 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1962 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1963 are not contiguous
1964 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1965 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1966 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1967 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1968 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1969 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1970 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1971 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1972 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1973 all exceptions
1974 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1975 arguments
1976 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1977 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1978 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1979 should include
1980 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1981 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1982 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1983 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1984 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1985 GNU/Linux
1986 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1987 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1988 arguments
1989 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1990 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1991 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1992 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1993 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1994 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1995 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1996 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1997 rounding results
1998 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1999 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2000 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2001 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2002 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2003 fails
2004 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2005 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2006 block boundary
2007 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2008 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2009 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2010 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2011 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2012 4.7?
2013 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2014 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2015 (related to lock elision)
2016 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2017 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2018 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2019 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2020 (CVE-2015-8779)
2021 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2022 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2023 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2024 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2025 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2026 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2027 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2028 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2029 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2030 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2031 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2032 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2033 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2034 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2035 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2036 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2037 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2038 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2039 contains a vector instruction exception.
2040 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2041 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2042 locales
2043 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2044 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2045 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2046 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2047 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2048 missing break ?
2049 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2050 32bit processes
2051 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2052 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2053 infinity
2054 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2055 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2056 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2057 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2058 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2059 be forced unloaded
2060 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2061 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2062 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2063 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2064 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2065 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2066 statically too large
2067 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2068 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2069 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2070 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2071 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2072 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2073 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2074 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2075 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2076 FUTEX_SHARED
2077 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2078 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2079 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2080 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2081 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2082 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2083 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2084 opendir()
2085 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2086 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2087 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2088 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2089 signgam
2090 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2091 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2092 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2093 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2094 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2095 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2096 dependencies
2097 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2098 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2099 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2100 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2101 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2102 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2103 (CVE-2015-8776)
2104 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2105 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2106 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2107 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2108 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2109 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2110 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2111 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2112 contention
2113 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2114 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2115 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2116 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2117 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2118 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2119 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2120 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2121 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2122 rounding modes
2123 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2124 ILP32
2125 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2126 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2127 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2128 threshold
2129 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2130 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2131 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2132 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2133 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2134 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2135 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2136 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2137 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2138 pthread_setaffinity_np
2139 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2140 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2141 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2142 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2143 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2144 prelink
2145 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2146 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2147 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2148 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2149 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2150 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2151 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2152 bits/mathcalls.h
2153 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2154 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2155 for C99-based standards
2156 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2157 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2158 math-only
2159 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2160 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2161 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2162 disabled
2163 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2164 "inexact" exceptions
2165 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2166 arguments
2167 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2168 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2169 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2170 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2171 rules
2172 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2173 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2174 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2175 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2176 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2177 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2178 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2179 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2180 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2181 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2182 from 32bit
2183 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2184 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2185 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2186 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2187 subnormals
2188 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2189 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2190 error on 32-bit architectures
2191 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2192 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2193 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2194 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2195 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2196 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2197 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2198 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2199 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2200 -Os
2201 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2202 CPU's.
2203 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2204 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2205 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2206 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2207 architectures
2208 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2210Version 2.22
2211
2212* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2213
3df5cd98 2214 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2215 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2216 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2217 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2218 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2219 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2220 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2221 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2222 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2223 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2224 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2225 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2226 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2227 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2228 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2229 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2230 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2231 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2232 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2233 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2234
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2235* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2236 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2237
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AS
2238* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2239 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2240 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2241 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2242 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2243 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2244
42261ad7
FW
2245* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2246 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2247 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2248 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2249 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2250
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2251* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2252 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2253 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2254
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AO
2255* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2256 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2257 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2258 17998.
2259
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AS
2260* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2261 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2262 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2263
2264* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2265 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2266 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2267 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2268 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2269 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2270 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2271 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
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2272
2273* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2274 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2275 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2276 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2277
2278* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2279 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2280 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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2281
2282* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2283 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
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2284
2285* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2286 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2287 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2288
a03ba363 2289 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
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2290 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2291 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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2293Version 2.21
2294
2295* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2296
042e1521 2297 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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2298 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2299 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2300 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2301 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2302 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2303 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2304 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2305 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2306 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2307 17892.
2308
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FW
2309* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2310 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2311 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2312 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2313 intended.
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2314
2315* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2316 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2317 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2318 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2319 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2320 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2321
522e6ee3
CLT
2322* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2323
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AZ
2324* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2325 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2326 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2327
8d2c0a59
AZ
2328* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2329 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2330 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2331 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2332 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2333 effects being visible outside transactions.
2334
dc400d7b
RE
2335* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2336 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2337
0f9dfe04
L
2338* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2339
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2340* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2341 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2342 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2343 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2344 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2345
a5357b7c
JL
2346* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2347 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2348
e54db0ea
AM
2349* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2350 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2351 format.
11e3417a 2352
4863355a
JM
2353* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2354 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2355 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2356
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JM
2357* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2358 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2359
0d560bbf 2360* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2361
2362* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2363 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2364 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2365 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2366
2367* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2368 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2369
2370* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2371 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2372 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2373 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2374 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2375 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2376 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2377 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2378 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2379 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2380 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2381 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2382 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2383
2384 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2385 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2386 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2387 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2388 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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d5b396c1
AM
2390Version 2.20
2391
2392* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2393
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2394 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2395 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2396 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2397 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2398 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2399 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2400 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2401 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2402 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2403 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2404 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2405 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2406 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2407 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2408 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
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SL
2410* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2411 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2412 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2413 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2414 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2415 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
2416 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2417 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2418 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2419 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2420
0961f7e1
JL
2421* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2422 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2423 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2424 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2425 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2426
f940b965
RE
2427* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2428
d0f5b3f8
JM
2429* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2430 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2431
d6fe5e58
JM
2432* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2433 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2434 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2435 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2436 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2437 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2438
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JM
2439* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2440 from ports.
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JM
2441
2442* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2443 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2444 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2445 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2446 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2447 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2448 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2449
2450* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2451
2452* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2453 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2454 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2455 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2456 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2457 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2458 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2459
2460* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2461 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2462 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2463 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2464 invocation.
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JM
2465
2466* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2467 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2468 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
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2469
2470* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2471 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2472 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2473 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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FW
2474
2475* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2476 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2477 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2478 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2479 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2480 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2481 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2482 additional checks.
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2483
2484* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2485 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2486 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2487 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2488 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2489 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2490 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2491 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2492 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2493
2494* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2495 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2496 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2497 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2498 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2499 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2500
2501* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2502 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2503 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2504 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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2505\f
2506Version 2.19
2507
2508* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2509
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2510 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2511 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2512 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2513 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2514 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2515 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2516 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2517 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2518 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2519 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2520 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2521 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2522 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2523 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2524 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2525 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2526 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2527 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2528
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CD
2529* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2530 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2531
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CD
2532* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2533 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2534 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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CD
2535 extension which uses __block.
2536
303e567a
SP
2537* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2538 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2539 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2540 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2541 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2542
141f3a77
SP
2543* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2544 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2545 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2546 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2547 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2548
2549* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2550 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2551 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2552 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2553 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2554
2555* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2556 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2557 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2558
ba0d798c
WN
2559* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2560 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2561 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2562 #15856, #15857).
2563
7cbcdb36
SP
2564* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2565 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2566
82bab04b 2567* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2568 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2569
c5f840fd
MB
2570* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2571
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CD
2572* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2573 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2574
3e181dda 2575* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2576
8a05c252
CL
2577* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2578
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JM
2579* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2580 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2581 for which the C library was built.
2582
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JM
2583* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2584 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2585 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2586 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2587 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2588 in the following circumstances:
2589
2590 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2591
2592 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2593 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2594
d4f66d37
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2595* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2596 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2597
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2598* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2599 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2600
ffb89e53
AO
2601* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2602
5d29ccce
SP
2603* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2604 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2605
8b7d57cd 2606* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2607
2608* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2609
fd712ef3 2610* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2611
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JM
2612* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2613 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2614 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2615 disable some of those declarations.
2616
7011c262 2617* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2618 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2619 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2620
2621* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2622 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2623
2624* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2625 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2626 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2627 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2628 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2629 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2630 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2631 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2632 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2633 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2634 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2635 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2636 require recompilation.
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2637\f
2638Version 2.18
2639
2640* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2641
17db6e8d 2642 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2643 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2644 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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2645 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2646 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2647 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2648 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2649 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2650 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2651 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2652 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2653 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2654 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2655 15755, 15759.
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2656
2657* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2658 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2659 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2660 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2661 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2662 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2663
5b535ac4
AS
2664* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2665 #15078).
2666
1cef1b19
AS
2667* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2668 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2669
55e4107b
SP
2670* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2671 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2672 destructor calls to glibc.
2673
e5c74c63
SP
2674* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2675 output.
2676
2677* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2678 non-x86 architectures.
2679
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JM
2680* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2681
2682* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2683
2684* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2685 Richard Henderson.
2686
2687* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2688
2689* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2690 Richard Henderson.
2691
2692* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2693 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2694
8cfdb7e0
SP
2695* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2696
57267616
TS
2697* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2698 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2699
c204ab28
SP
2700* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2701 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2702
0748546f
PE
2703* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2704 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2705 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2706
61dd6208
SP
2707* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2708 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2709 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
2710
2711* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2712 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2713 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2714 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2715 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
2716
2717* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2718 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2719
2720* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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2721\f
2722Version 2.17
2723
2724* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2725
80ceeaee 2726 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
2727 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2728 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2729 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2730 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2731 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2732 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2733 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2734 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2735 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2736 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2737 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2738 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2739 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2740 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2741
95b4f1b6
SE
2742* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2743
14bc93a9
JL
2744* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2745 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2746
b54eb3cb
JM
2747* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2748 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2749
7e2bd01f
MS
2750* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2751
08f43f9b
AK
2752* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2753 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2754 zEnterprise z196.
2755 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2756
84b3fd84
FW
2757* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2758 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2759 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2760
815e6fa3
GB
2761* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2762 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2763
400726de
MK
2764* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2765 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2766
7aab07e4 2767* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2768 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2769
15d0da8c
WS
2770* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2771 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2772
3cc3ef96
RM
2773* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2774 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
2775 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2776 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2777
b54eb3cb
JM
2778* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2779 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2780
85429b1a 2781* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2782 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
2783 default.
2784
b54eb3cb
JM
2785* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2786 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2787 information in --help and --version output.
2788
050af9c4
SP
2789* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2790 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2791 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2792
89a3ad0b
AO
2793* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2794 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2795 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2796 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2797 when the mode is enabled.
2798
6e6249d0
RM
2799* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2800 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2801 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2802 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2803 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2804 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2805 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2806
d9286582
NK
2807* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2808 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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UD
2809\f
2810Version 2.16
2811
2812* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2813
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JM
2814 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2815 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2816 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2817 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2818 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2819 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2820 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2821 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2822 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2823 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2824 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2825 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2826 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2827 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2828 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2829 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2830 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2831 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2832 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2833 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2834 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2835 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2836 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2837
a086b4d6
L
2838* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2839 configuring glibc with:
2840 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2841 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2842 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2843
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2844* ISO C11 support:
2845
2846 + define static_assert
2847
2848 + do not declare gets
2849
2850 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2851
2852 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2853 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2854 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2855 implementation.
8d44e150 2856
74033a25 2857 + timespec_get added
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2858
2859 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2860
ac097f5c
UD
2861 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2862
16dd419d
UD
2863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2864
9dc4e1fb 2865* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
2866
2867* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
2868
2869* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2870 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2871
2872* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2874
2875* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2876 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2877 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2878 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2879 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2880
21708942 2881* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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JM
2882 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2883 before 2.6.
83678f76 2884
edb00e4d
RH
2885* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2886 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2887 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2888
83678f76 2889* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
2890
2891* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2892 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2893 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2894 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2895 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
2896
2897* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2898
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2899* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2900 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
2901
2902* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2903
2904* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2905 without a previously built glibc.
2906
2907* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2908 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2909
2910* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2911 now supported for ARM processors.
2912
2913* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2914 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2915 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2916
2917* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2918
2919* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2920 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2921 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2922 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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AJ
2923
2924* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2925 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2926 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2927 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2928
2929* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2930 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2931 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2932 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2933 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2934
2935* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2936 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2937 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2938 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2939\f
e80fab37 2940Version 2.15
11988f8f 2941
c0244a9d
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2942* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2943
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2944 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2945 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2946 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2947 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2948 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2949 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2950 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2951
11988f8f
UD
2952* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2953 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
2954
2955* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2956 and support for initgroups lookups.
2957 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
2958
2959* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2960 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
2961
2962* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2963 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2964
fc2ee42a
LD
2965* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2966 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2967 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2968
d42964a0 2969* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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LD
2970 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2971
1d3e4b61
UD
2972* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2973 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
2974 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2975
c55fbd1e
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2976* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2979* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2982* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2985* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2988* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2989 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2990
2991* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2992 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2994* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2996* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2997 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2999* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3000 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
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6b64057b 3002* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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3007
553149f6 3008 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3009 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3010 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3011 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3013 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3014 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3015 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3016 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3017 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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3020 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3021 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3022 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3024 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3025 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3026 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3028
c6489db3 3029* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3030 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3031
72d1dddb 3032* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3033 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3035* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3037* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3038 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3040* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3041 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3042 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3043 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3046
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3048
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3050 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3051 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3052 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3053 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3054
10b3bedc 3055* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3056
ac2b484c 3057* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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3059* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3060 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3061 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3063Version 2.12
3064
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3066
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3067 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3068 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3069 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3070 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3071 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3072 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3073 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3074 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3076* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3077
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3078* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3079
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3080* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3081
3082* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3083 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3084 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3085
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3087 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3088 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3089 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3091
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3094Version 2.11
3095
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3096* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3097
3098 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3099 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3100 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3101 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3102 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3103 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3104
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3105* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3106 mkostemps64
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3107 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3108
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3110 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3111
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3112* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3113 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3114
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3115* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3116
0122f28e 3117* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3118 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3119 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3120 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3121
9d36a6c4 3122 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3124
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3125* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3126 strstr, strcasestr.
3127 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3128
3129* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3130 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3131
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3132* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3133 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3134
3135* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3137
3138* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3139 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3140 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3141 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3142 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3143 necessity is every process again.
3144 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3145
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3146* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3147 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3148
3149* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3150 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3151
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3152* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3153 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3154 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3155
9dd5b8a1 3156* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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3158Version 2.10
3159
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3160* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3161
3162 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3163 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3164 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3165 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3166 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3167
bb066545 3168* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3169 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3170
425ce2ed 3171* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3173
1fdd89a7 3174* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3175 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3177* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3178 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3179
1f04d005 3180* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3181 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3182
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3183* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3185
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3186* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3187 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3188
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3189* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3190 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3191
3192* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3193 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3195
735be400 3196* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3197
84aa52d7 3198* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3199 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3200
3201* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3202 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3204
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3205* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3207
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3208* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3209 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3210 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3211 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3212 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3213 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3215Version 2.9
3216
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3217* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3218
3219 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3220 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3221 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3222 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3223 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3224
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3226 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3227
3228* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3229 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3230
3231* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3232 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3233
3234* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3235 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3236 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3237
3238* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3239 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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3242
3243* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3244 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3246* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3247 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3248 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3249 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3250
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3251* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3252 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3254* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3255 Sinhala)
48b22986 3256 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3258* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3260Version 2.8
3261
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3262* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3263
3264 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3265 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3266 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3267 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3268 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3269 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3270 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3271
e038616f 3272* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3273
77751669 3274* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3276* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3277 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3278
3279* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3280
3281* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3282 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3283
3284* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3286
3287* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3288 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3289 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3290
3291* Faster memset for x86-64.
3292 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3293
3294* Faster memcpy on x86.
3295 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3296
3297* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3300* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3301 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3303Version 2.7
3304
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3305* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3306
3307 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3308 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3309 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3310 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3311 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3312
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3313* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
3314 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3315
3316* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3317
3318* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3319 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3320 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3321
3322* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3323 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3324
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3326 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3327
3328* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3329
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3330* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3331 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3332
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3333* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3334 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3335
3336* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3337 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3338
3339* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3340
3341* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3342 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3344* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3345 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3346 yo_NG.
3347
3348+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3349 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3354
3355 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3356 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3357 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3358 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3359 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3360 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3361 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3362 4702, 4858
3363
bce20b9a 3364* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3366* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
3367
b21fa963 3368* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3370Version 2.5
3371
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3373
3374 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3375 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3376 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3377 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3378 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3379 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3380 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3381 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3382 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3383
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3385 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3386 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3388* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
3389 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3390
871b9158 3391* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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3392
3393* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3396 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3397 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3398 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3399 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3400
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3402 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3403 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3405
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3406* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3407 Ulrich Drepper.
3408
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3409* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3410
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3411* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3412 Ulrich Drepper.
3413
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3414* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3415
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3416* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3417 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3420
3421* More overflow detection functions.
3422
3423* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3424 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3426 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3427 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3428 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3429 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3430 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3431 by Masahide Washizawa.
3432
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3433* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3434 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3436* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3437 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3438 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3439 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3441* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3442 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3443
3444* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3445
3446* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3447 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3448 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3449
3450* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3451 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3452
3453* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3454 for compatibility with some other systems.
3455
3456* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3458Version 2.3.6
3459
3460* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3461
3462 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3463 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3464 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3465 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3466 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3467 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3468
3469 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3470
3471* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3472
3473* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3475Version 2.3.5
3476
3477* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3478
3479 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3480 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3481 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3482 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3483
3484 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3487
3488* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3489 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3490
3491* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3492 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3494
3495* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3496 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3497
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3499 efficiently.
3500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3501
3502* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3503 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3504 handling data.
3505
3506* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3507 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3508 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3510* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3511 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3512
3513* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3514 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3515 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3516 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3517
3518* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3519 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3520 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3521 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3522
3523* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3524 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3525 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3526 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3527 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3529Version 2.3.3
3530
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3531* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3532 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3533
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3534* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3535 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 3537* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3538 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3539
3540* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3541 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3543* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3544 by Roland McGrath.
3545
c5af724c 3546* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3547 and Ulrich Drepper.
3548
3549* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3550 RFC 3484.
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3552Version 2.3.2
3553
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3554* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3555 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3556 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3557 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3558 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3559 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3560 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3561 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3562 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3563
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3564* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3565 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3566 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3567
3568* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3569
3570* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3571 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3573* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3574 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3575
52a16e58 3576* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3578* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3579 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3580
3581* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3582 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3583 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3584 of weak definition in ld.so.
3585
3586* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3587 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3588
3589* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3590 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3594* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3595 charsets.
3596
3597* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3598 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3599
bb0ec5bd 3600* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3601 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3603* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3604 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3605
bb0ec5bd 3606* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3607 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3608 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3610* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3611 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3612
bb0ec5bd 3613* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3614 implementation of regex.
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3615
3616* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3617 Unicode 3.2.
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3619* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3620 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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3622* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3623 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3624 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3625
3626* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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3628
3629* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3630 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3631 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3632
3633* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3634 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3635
3636* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3637 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3638 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3639
3640* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3642Version 2.2.6
3643
3644* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3645 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3646
3647* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3648 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3650Version 2.2.5
3651
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3652* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3653 128-bit long double format.
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3655* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3656 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3657
ad2e4f18 3658* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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3660* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3661
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3662* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3663 as well.
3664
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3665* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3666 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3668* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3670Version 2.2.4
3671
2995f70e 3672* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3673 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3674
3675* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3676 support Unicode 3.1.
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3677
3678* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3679 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3680
69d5f925 3681* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3682
69d5f925 3683* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3684 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3685 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3686
3687* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3688 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3689
3690* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3691 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3692
3693* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3695Version 2.2.3
3696
1746f2b0 3697* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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3698 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3699 in float, double, and long double format.
3700
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3702 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3703 128-bit long double format.
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3705* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3706 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3707 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3708 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
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3710* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3711 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3712 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3713
3714* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3715 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3716
3717* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3718 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3719
3720* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3721 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3722 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3723
3724* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3725 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3727* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3728 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3730* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3732Version 2.2.2
3733
464d97ec 3734* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3735 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3736 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3737 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3738 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3739 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3740 other headers.
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3742* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3743 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3744
3745* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3746 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3747 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3748 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3749
3750* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3751 locales. While
3752
3753 locale -a
3754
3755 only lists the names of the supported locales
3756
3757 locale -a --verbose
3758
3759 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3760 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3763
3764* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3765 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3766 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3767 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3768 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3769
3770 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3771
3772 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3773
3774 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3776* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3777 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3778 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3780* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3781 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3782
3783* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3784 changed from the default "C" locale.
3785
3786* The usual bug fixes.
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3789
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3790* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3791 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3792 is in progress.
3793
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3794* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3795
793bd4d9 3796* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3798 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3799 obviously requires a database library being available.
3800
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3801* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3802
abbffdf9 3803* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3805* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3806 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3807
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3808* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3809
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3810* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3811 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3812 and Mark Kettenis.
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3813
3814 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3815 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3816 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3817
a00c3ca9 3818 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3819 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3820
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3821* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3822 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3823 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
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3825* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3826 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3827 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3828 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3829
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3830 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3831 structures for the wide character tables.
3832
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3833* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3834
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3835* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3836
3837* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3838
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3839* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3840 and Yutaka Niibe.
3841
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3842* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3843
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3844* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3845
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3846* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3847
3848* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3849
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3850* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3851
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3852* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3853 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3854 implemented for Linux.
3855
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3856* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3857 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3858 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3859 versions.
3860
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3861* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3862 Masahide Washizawa.
3863
8f3f1e09 3864* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3867
3868* bug fixes
3869
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3872
3873* bug fixes
3874
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3876Version 2.1.1
3877
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3878* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3879
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3880* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3881
407d26b7 3882* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3884* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3885
407d26b7 3886* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3887
407d26b7 3888* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3889
3890* Update timezone data files.
27995311 3891
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3892* lots of charmaps corrections
3893
3894* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3895
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3897Version 2.1
3898
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3899* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3900 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3901 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3902 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3903 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3904 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3905
c84142e8 3906* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3907 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3908
1fb05e3d 3909* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3910 symbol level.
3911
3912* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3913 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3914
cbdee279 3915* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3916
3917* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3918 numbers.
377a515b 3919
cbdee279 3920* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3921
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3922* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3923 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3924
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3925* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3926 library.
3927
e61abf83 3928* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3929 functions from ISO C 9X.
3930
3931* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3932 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3933
a5a0310d 3934* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3935
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3936* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3937
3938* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3939
440d13e2 3940* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3941
3942* Optimized string functions have been added.
3943
3944* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3945
3946* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3948* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3949 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3950
3951 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3952 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3953
0dee6738 3954 user system wall
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0dee6738 3956 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3957
0dee6738 3958 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3959
0dee6738 3960 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3962 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3963
3964 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3965
3966 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3969 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3970 horribly slow.
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3972 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3973 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3975* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3977* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3978
3979* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3980 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3981
3982* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3984* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3985 Bambrough.
3986
3987* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3988 latest draft standards.
3989
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3990* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3991
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3993~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3994addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3995alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3996argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3997argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3998argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3999argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4000argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4001argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4002argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4003argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4004argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4005argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4007authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4008authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4009backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4010backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4011backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4012cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4013cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4014cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4015cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4016cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4017cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4018capget NEW: kernel
4019capset NEW: kernel
4020carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4021cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4022cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4023casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4024casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4025casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4026casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4027casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4028casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4029catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4030catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4031catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4032catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4033catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4034catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4036ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4037ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4038ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4039ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4040ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4041ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4042cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4043cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4044cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4045cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4046cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4047cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4048clearerr_locked REMOVED
4049clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4050clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4051clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4052clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4053clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4054clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4055clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4056conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4057conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4058conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4059cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4060cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4061cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4062cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4063cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4064cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4065creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4066crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4067creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4068creat64 NEW: LFS
4069csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4070csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4071csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4072csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4073csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4074csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4075csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4076csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4077csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4078ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4079ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4080ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4081ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4082ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4083ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4084des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4085ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4086endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4087exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4088exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4089exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4090exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4091exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4092exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4093fattach NEW: STREAMS
4094fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4095fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4096fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4097fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4098feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4099fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4100fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4101fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4102feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4103feof_locked REMOVED
4104feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4105ferror_locked REMOVED
4106fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4107fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4108fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4109fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4110feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4111fflush_locked REMOVED
4112ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4113ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4114fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4115fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4116fileno_locked REMOVED
4117fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4118fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4119fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4120fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4121fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4122fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4123fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4124fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4125fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4126fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4127fopen64 NEW: LFS
4128fputc_locked REMOVED
4129fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4130fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4131freopen64 NEW: LFS
4132fseeko NEW: Unix98
4133fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4134fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4135fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4136fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4137ftello NEW: Unix98
4138ftello64 NEW: LFS
4139ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4140ftw64 NEW: LFS
4141fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4142gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4143gamma_r REMOVED
4144gammaf_r REMOVED
4145gammal_r REMOVED
4146getchar_locked REMOVED
4147getdate NEW: Unix98
4148getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4149getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4150getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4151getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4152getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4153getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4154getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4155getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4156getutxent NEW: Unix98
4157getutxid NEW: Unix98
4158getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4159glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4160globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4161gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4162gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4163grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4164host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4165iconv NEW: iconv
4166iconv_close NEW: iconv
4167iconv_open NEW: iconv
4168if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4169if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4170if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4171if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4172in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4173in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4174inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4175isastream NEW: STREAMS
4176iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4177key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4178key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4179key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4180key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4181key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4182key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4183key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4184key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4185key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4186llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4187llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4188llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4189llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4190llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4191llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4192log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4193log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4194log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4195lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4196lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4197lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4198lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4199lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4200lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4201lseek64 NEW: LFS
4202makecontext NEW: Unix98
4203mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4204mmap64 NEW: LFS
4205moncontrol REMOVED
4206modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4207nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4208nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4209nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4210nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4211nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4212nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4213netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4214netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4215nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4216nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4217nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4218nftw NEW: Unix98
4219nftw64 NEW: LFS
4220open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4221passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4222pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4223pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4224pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4225pread NEW: Unix98
4226pread64 NEW: LFS
4227printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4228printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4229profil_counter REMOVED
4230pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4231pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4232ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4233ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4234putc_locked REMOVED
4235putchar_locked REMOVED
4236putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4237putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4238putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4239pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4240pwrite NEW: Unix98
4241pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4242readdir64 NEW: LFS
4243readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4244remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4245remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4246remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4247round NEW: ISO C 9x
4248roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4249roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4250rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4251scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4252scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4253scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4254scandir64 NEW: LFS
4255sendfile NEW: kernel
4256setcontext NEW: Unix98
4257setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4258setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4259sighold NEW: Unix98
4260sigignore NEW: Unix98
4261sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4262sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4263sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4264sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4265sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4266sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4267sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4268sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4269statfs64 NEW: LFS
4270statvfs NEW: Unix98
4271statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4272strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4273strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4274strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4275strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4276svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4277svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4278svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4279swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4280tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4281tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4282tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4283tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4284tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4285tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4286trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4287truncate64 NEW: LFS
4288truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4289truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4290umount2 NEW: kernel
4291unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4292updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4293user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4294utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4295versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4296versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4297waitid NEW: Unix98
4298wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4299wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4300wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4301wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4302wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4303wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4304wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4305wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4306wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4307wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4308write_profiling REMOVED
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4309xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4310xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4311xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4312xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4313xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4314xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4315xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4316xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4317xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4318xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4319xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4320xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4321xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4322xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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4326Version 2.0.6
4327
4328* more bug fixes
4329
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4330\f
4331Version 2.0.5
4332
4333* more bug fixes
4334
4335* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4336
4337* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4338
4339* rewrite of cbrt function
4340
4341* update of timezone data
4342\f
4343Version 2.0.4
4344
4345* more bug fixes
4346\f
4347Version 2.0.3
4348
4349* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4350\f
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4351Version 2.0.2
4352
4353* more bug fixes
4354
4355* add atoll function
4356
4357* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4359* fix math functions
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4361Version 2.0.1
4362
4363* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4364
4365* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4366
4367* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4368 the ELF dynamic loader.
4369
4370* support for parallel builds is improved
4371\f
40a4b79f 4372Version 2.0
28f540f4 4373
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4374* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4375 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4376 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4377
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4378* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4379 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4380 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4381 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4382 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4383 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4384 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4385 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4386 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4387 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4388 files in the ELF format.
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4389
4390* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4391 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4392
4393* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4394 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4395 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4396 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4397 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4398 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4399 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4400 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4401 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4402 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4403 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4405* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4406 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4407 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4408 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4409 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4410
f7eac6eb 4411* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4413 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4414 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4415 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4416
4417* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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4419* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4420 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4421 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4422 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4423 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4424 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4425 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4426 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4427 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4428
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4429* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4430 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4431 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4432
4433* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4434 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4435 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4436
4437* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4438 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4439 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4440 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4441
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4443 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4444 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4445
4446* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4447 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4448 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4449
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4450* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4451 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4452
f7eac6eb 4453* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4454 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4455 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4456 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4457
4458* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4459 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4460 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4461
71733723 4462* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4463 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4464 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4465 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4466 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4467 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4468 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4469 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4470
4471* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4472 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4473 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4474 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4475 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4476 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4477 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4478
4479* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4480 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4481 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4482 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4483 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4484 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4485
4486* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4487 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4488
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4489* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4490 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4491 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4493* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4494
4495* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4496 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4497 their use is discouraged.
4498
4499* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4500 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4502* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4503 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4504
4505* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4506 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4507
4508* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4509 see <dirent.h>.
4510
4511* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4512 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4513 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4514 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4515 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4516
4517* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4518 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4519 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4520 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4521
4522* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4523 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4524
4525* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4526 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4527 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4528 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4529 number generator.
4530
4531* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4532 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4533
4534* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4535 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4536
71733723 4537* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4538 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4539 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4540 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 4541
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4542* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4543
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4544* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4545 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4546 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4547
4548* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4549 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 4551* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4552 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4553 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4554 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4555
4556* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4557 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4558 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4559 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4560 programs already written to use it.)
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4561
4562* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4563 constants.
4564
4565* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4566 with 4.4 BSD.
4567
4568* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4569 a given effective group ID.
4570
4571* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4572 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4573 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4574 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4575
4576* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4577 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4578 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4579 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4580 doing the same thing.
4581
4582* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4583 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4584
4585* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4586 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4587
4588* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4589
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4590* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4591 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4592 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4593 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4594 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4595
4596* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4597 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4598
4599* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4600 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4601 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4602 function.
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4603
4604* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4605
4606* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4607 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4608 strings.
4609
4610* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4611 and writing the utmp file.
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4612
4613* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4614 Thorsten Kukuk.
4615
4616* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4617 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4618 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4619
4620* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4621 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4622
4623* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4624 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4625 specification.
4626
4627* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4628 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4629 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4630 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4631
4632* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4633 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4634 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4635
4636* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4637 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4638 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4639 expression matcher.
4640
4641* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4642 functionality.
4643
4644* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4645 by Ulrich Drepper.
4646
4647* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4648
4649* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4650 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4651 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4653Version 1.09
4654
4655* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4656
4657* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4658 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4659
4660* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4661 want to put themselves in the background.
4662
4663* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4664 run without an operating system.
4665
4666* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4667 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4668
4669* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4670 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4671
4672* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4673
4674* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4675 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4676 have YP (aka NIS).
4677
4678* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4679 conventions.
4680
4681* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4682 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4683\f
4684Version 1.08
4685
4686* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4687 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4688 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4689
4690* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4691 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4692
4693* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4694 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4695
4696* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4697
4698* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4699
4700* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4701 compatibility.
4702
4703* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4704 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4705 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4706
4707* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4708
4709* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4710 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4711 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4712
4713* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4714 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4715 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4716 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4717 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4718 on a block).
4719
4720* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4721 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4722 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4723 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4724 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4725 cross-compiler.
4726
4727* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4728 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4729\f
4730Version 1.07
4731
4732* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4733 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4734
4735* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4736 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4737 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4738
4739* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4740 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4741 address of the last character written.
4742
4743* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4744 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4745
4746* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4747 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4748
4749* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4750 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4751 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4752 you dereference this pointer.
4753
4754* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4755 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4756
4757* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4758 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4759 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4760 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4761
4762* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4763 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4764 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4765 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4766\f
4767Version 1.06
4768
4769* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4770 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4771 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4772 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4773 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4774
4775* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4776
4777* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4778
4779* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4780 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4781
4782* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4783 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4784
4785* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4786 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4787
4788* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4789 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4790 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4791 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4792 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4793
4794* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4795 to the error code in `errno'.
4796
4797* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4798 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4799 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4800 malloc'd string.
4801
4802* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4803 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4804 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4805
4806* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4807 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4809Version 1.05
4810
4811* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4812 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4813 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4814
4815* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4816 characters.
4817
4818* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4819 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4820
4821* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4822\f
4823Version 1.04
4824
4825* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4826 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4827 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4828 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4829
4830* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4831 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4832 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4833
4834* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4835 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4836
4837* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4838 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4839 made itself into a shared library.
4840
4841* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4842 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4843
4844* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4845 with limited length.
4846
4847* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4848
4849* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4850
4851* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4852
4853* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4854 function for traversing a directory tree.
4855
4856* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4857 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4858 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4859 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4860
4861* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4862 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4863
4864* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4865
4866* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4867 things to your strings.
4868
4869* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4870
4871* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4872 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4873 supporting those systems.
4874
4875* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4876 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4877 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4878 configuration files.
4879
4880* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4881 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4882
4883* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4885 in <strings.h>.)
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4886
4887* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4888 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4889 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4890 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4891 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4892 required storage is not available.
4893
4894* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4895 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4896
4897* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4898 latest files released from Berkeley.
4899\f
4900----------------------------------------------------------------------
4901Copyright information:
4902
09533208 4903Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4904
4905 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4906 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4907 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4908 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4909
4910 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4911 of this document, or of portions of it,
4912 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4913 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4914\f
4915Local variables:
4916version-control: never
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