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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.34
9
10Major new features:
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12* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE or
13 _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
14 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
15 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
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17* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
18 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
19 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
20
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21Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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23* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
24 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
25 instead.
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27Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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29* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
30 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
31 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
32 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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34Security related changes:
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36 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
37 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
38 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
39 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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41The following bugs are resolved with this release:
42
43 [The release manager will add the list generated by
44 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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47Version 2.33
48
49Major new features:
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51* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
52 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
53 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
54
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55* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
56 to change argv[0] string.
57
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58* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
59 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
60 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
61 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
62 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
63 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
64 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
65 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
66 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
67
68* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
69 information and library search path diagnostics.
70
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71* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
72 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
73 larger than fit in an integer.
74
96203980 75* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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77* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
78 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
79
80 - rv32imac ilp32
81 - rv32imafdc ilp32
82 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
83
84 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
85 2.28.
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87* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
88 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
89 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
90 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
91 fortification.
92
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93Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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95* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
96 mallinfo2 instead.
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98* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
99 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
100 Instead, the default implementation is used.
101
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102* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
103 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
104 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
105 prlimit.
106
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107* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
108 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
109 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
110
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111* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
112 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
113 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
114 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
115 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
116 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
117
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118* A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
119 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
120 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
121 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
122 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
123 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
124 loaded.
125
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126Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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128* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
129 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
130 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
131 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
132 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
133 perform any adjustments.
134
135* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
136 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
137 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
138 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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140* s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
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142Security related changes:
143
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934c48a0 145 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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146 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
147 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
148 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
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150 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
151 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
152 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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154 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
155 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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157 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
158 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
159
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160The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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162 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
163 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
164 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
165 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
166 AT_EACCESS
167 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 168 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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169 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
170 "haswell" platform subdirectory
171 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
172 with GCC
173 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
174 stack-protector=all
175 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
176 cases
177 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
178 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
179 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
180 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
181 changing gnuc version
182 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
183 incorrect
184 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
185 bits
186 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
187 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
188 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
189 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
190 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
191 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
192 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
193 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
194 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
195 too much stack space
196 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
197 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
198 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
199 with optimization.
200 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
201 anymore
202 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
203 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
204 non-FMA4 system
205 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
206 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
207 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
208 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
209 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
210 getaddrinfo
211 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
212 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
213 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
214 fault
215 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
216 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
217 at the end of a memory mapping
218 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
219 by the caller to the kernel
220 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
221 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
222 declarations for __sigsetjmp
223 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
224 monotonic clocks
225 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
226 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
227 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
228 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
229 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
230 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
231 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
232 one element
233 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
234 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
235 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
236 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
237 lazy bound
238 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
239 PI mutexes
240 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
241 not safe
242 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
243 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
244 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
245 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
246 platform
247 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
248 startup code
249 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
250 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
251 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
252 protected
253 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
254 only since 2.31
255 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
256 locked
257 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
258 aligned
259 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
260 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
261 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
262 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
263 detection logic
264 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
265 pclose(3))
266 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
267 setup
268 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
269 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
270 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
271 work
272 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
273 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
274 [27177] dynamic-link:
275 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
276 work
277 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
278 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
279 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
280 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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283Version 2.32
284
285Major new features:
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287* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
288 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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289 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
290
291* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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293* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
294 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
295 Three ABIs are supported:
296
297 - arc-linux-gnu
298 - arc-linux-gnuhf
299 - arceb-linux-gnu
300
4d3a77c7 301 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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302 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
303
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304* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
305 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
306
051be01f 307* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
4d3a77c7 308 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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310 this option.
311
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312* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
313 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
314 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
315
4d3a77c7 316* On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
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317 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
318 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
319
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320* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
321 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
322 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
323 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
324 libpthread.
325
bfe05aa2 326* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
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327 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
328 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
329 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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330 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
331 NULL for an invalid signal number.
332
333 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
334 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
335
325081b9 336* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
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337 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
338 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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339 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
340 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
341 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
342
343 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
344 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
345
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346* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
347 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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348 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
349 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
350 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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351 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
352 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
353 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
354 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
355 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
356 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
357 BTI compatible.
358
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359Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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361* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
362 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
363 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
364 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
365 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
366 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
367 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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369* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
370 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
371 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
372 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
373 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
374 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
375 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 376 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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377 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
378
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379* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
380 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
381 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
382 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
383 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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385* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
386 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
387 was not declared in any header file.
388
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389* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
390 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
391 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
392 sigaction functions instead.
393
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394* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
395 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
396
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397* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
398 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
399 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
400 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
401 strsignal instead.
402
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403* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
404 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 405 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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406 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
407 strerror or strerror_r instead.
408
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409* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
410 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
411 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
412 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
413
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414* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
415 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
416 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
417 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
418 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
419 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
420 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
421
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422* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
423 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
424 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
425 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
426 flavor of secure RPC.)
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428* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
429 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
430 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
431 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
432 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
433 object, to enable the hooks.
434
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435* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
436 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
437 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
438 LDAP.
439
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440Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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442* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
443 long double redirects.
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445Security related changes:
446
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447 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
448 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
449 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
450
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451 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
452 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
453 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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455 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
456 expanding ~user has been fixed.
457
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458 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
459 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
460 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
461 TALOS-2020-1019).
462
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463The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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465 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
466 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
467 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
468 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
469 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
470 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
471 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
472 filtee has constructor
473 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
474 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
475 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
476 character entities for infinity & pi
477 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
478 segfaults in applications
479 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
480 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
481 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
482 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
483 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
484 function with -mlong-double-64
485 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
486 binding
487 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
488 ld.so.cache
489 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
490 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
491 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
492 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
493 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
494 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
495 linker
496 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
497 dynamically loaded dsos
498 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
499 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
500 access
501 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
502 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
503 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
504 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
505 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
506 stale configuration forever
507 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
508 (CVE-2020-10029)
509 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
510 defaults to PIE
511 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
512 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
513 (CVE-2020-6096)
514 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
515 on 32 bit and old kernel
516 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
517 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
518 Occitan
519 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
520 amount of sigset_t bytes
521 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
522 strings
523 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
524 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
525 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
526 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
527 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
528 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
529 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
530 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
531 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
532 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
533 size_t
534 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
535 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
536 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
537 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
538 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
539 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
540 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
541 cpu=power9
542 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
543 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
544 segfault
545 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
546 exiting detached thread
547 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
548 for x32
549 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
550 ERANGE
551 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
552 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
553 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
554 dependencies in audit mode
555 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
556 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
557 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
558 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
559 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
560 input
561 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
562 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
563 preserve r2
564 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
565 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
566 variables
567 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
568 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
569 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
570 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
571 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
572 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
573 corruption in memset
574
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577
578Major new features:
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580* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
581 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
582 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
583 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
584 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
585 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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587* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
588 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
589 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
590 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
591
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3ef5e118 593 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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595
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596* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
597
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598* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
599 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
600 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
601 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
602 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
603 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
604 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
605 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
606
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608
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609* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
610 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
611 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
612 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
613 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
614 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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618 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
619
620* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
621 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
622 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
623 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
624
625* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
626 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
627 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
628 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
629 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
630 made this no longer practical.
631
632 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
633 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
634 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
635 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
636 release.)
637
638 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
639 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
640 with the current time, use the localtime function.
641
642 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
643 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
644 using clock_gettime instead.
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647 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
648 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
649 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
650 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
651
652 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
653 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
654 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
655 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
656
657 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
658 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
659 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
660 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
661 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
662 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
663
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665 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
666 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
667 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
668 offset API.
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670* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
671 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
672 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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674 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
675 configurations.
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677* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
678 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
679 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
680 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
681 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
682
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684 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
685 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
686 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
687 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
688 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
689 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
690 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
691
692 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
693 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
694
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696 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
697 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
698 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
699 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
700 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
701
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703
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706 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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709 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
710 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
711
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714 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
715 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
716
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717 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
718 environment variable during program execution after a security
719 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
720 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
721 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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723The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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725 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
726 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
727 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
728 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
729 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
730 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
731 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
732 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
733 linking failure
734 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
735 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
736 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
737 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
738 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
739 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
740 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
741 constructors/destructors is not fatal
742 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
743 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
744 7408-2005
745 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
746 with localedef
747 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
748 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
749 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
750 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
751 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
752 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
753 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
754 utmp entries
755 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
756 ABSOLUTE ABI
757 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
758 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
759 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
760 (stringop-overflow error)
761 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
762 functions other can lead to crashes
763 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
764 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
765 unconditionally
766 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
767 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
768 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
769 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
770 still can fail with an error
771 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
772 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
773 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
774 initialized correctly
775 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
776 -frewrite-includes
777 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
778 value to an unsigned
779 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
780 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
781 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
782 protection
783 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
784 ifunc variant.
785 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
786 al. for Clang++
787 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
788 (Slovenian)
789 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
790 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
791 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
792 with -std=c11
793 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
794 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
795 part
796 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
797 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
798 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
799 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
800 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
801 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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805
806Major new features:
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808* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
809 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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810 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
811
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813 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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816 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
817 to the callback function.
818
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821* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
822 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
823 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
824
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826
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827* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
828 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
829 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
830 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
831 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
832
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834 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
835 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
836 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
837 link time reference, is gone.
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840 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
841 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
842 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
843 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
844 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
845 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
846 the clock choice at initialization time).
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849 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
850 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
851
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853
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854* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
855 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
856 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
857 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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859 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
860 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
861 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
862 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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865 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
866 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
867 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
868 since glibc 2.17.
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870* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
871 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
872
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873* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
874 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
875
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876* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
877 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
878
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879* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
880 BIND_NOW flag.
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883 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
884 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
885
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886* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
887 header have been removed.
888
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889* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
890 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
891 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
892 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
893
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897
898 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
899 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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901Security related changes:
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904 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
905 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
906 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
907 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
908 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
909 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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911 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
912 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
913 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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917 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
918 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
919 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
920 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
921 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
922 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
923 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
924 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
925 invalid input drops valid char
926 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
927 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
928 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
929 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
930 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
931 malloc.h.
932 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
933 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
934 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
935 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
936 functions
937 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
938 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
939 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
940 for long double = double
941 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
942 long double = double
943 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
944 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
945 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
946 long timeouts
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949 checking for NULL.
950 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
951 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
952 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
953 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
954 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
955 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
956 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
957 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
958 not the default "nor"
959 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
960 false positives, change to modern flexible array
961 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
962 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
963 compiler barriers.
964 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
965 unnecessary librt dependencies
966 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
967 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
968 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
969 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
970 unsorted chunk
971 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
972 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
973 to R_SPARC_H44
974 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
975 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
976 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
977 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
978 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
979 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
980 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
981 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
982 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
983 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
984 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
985 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
986 was not used
987 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
988 tests
989 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
990 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
991 time_t changes
992 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
993 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
994 kernels and break testing
995 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
996 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
997 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
998 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
999 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1000 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1001 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1002 -O3 -march=skylake
1003 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1004 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1005 crash
1006 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1007 linked glibc
1008 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1009 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1010 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1011 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1012 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1013 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1014 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1015 always implemented in the same library
1016 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1017 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1018 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1019 testroot
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1024Major new features:
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1027 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1030 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1031 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1032 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1033 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1034 configured location.
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1039 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1042 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1043 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1044 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1045 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1046 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1047 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1048 process actually does not use HTM).
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1051 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1052 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1053 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1054 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1055 of the same name.
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1058 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1059 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1063* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1064 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1065 supported:
1066 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1067 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1070 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1071 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1072 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1073 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1074 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1075 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1078 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1079 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1084 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1087 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1088 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1089 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1092 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1093 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1094 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1095 structures.
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1097* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1098 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1099 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1100 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1101 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1102 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1103
1104 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1105 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1106 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1107 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1108 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1109
1110 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1111 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1112 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1115
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1119 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1120
1121 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1122 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1126 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1127 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1128 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1131 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1132 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1133 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1134 Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1136 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1137 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1138 or command injection issues in applications.
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1142 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1143 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1144 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1145 thousands
1146 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1147 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1148 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1149 --param options)
1150 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1151 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1152 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1153 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1154 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1155 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1156 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1157 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1158 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1159 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1160 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1161 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1162 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1163 pointer argument is non-NULL
1164 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1165 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1166 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1167 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1168 multithreads call popen
1169 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1170 and pthread_create fails.
1171 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1172 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1173 constructor
1174 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1175 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1176 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1177 source tree
1178 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1179 float
1180 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1181 one error
1182 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1183 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1184 linker
1185 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1186 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1187 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1188 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1189 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1190 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1191 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1192 filesystems
1193 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1194 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1195 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1196 functions
1197 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1198 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1199 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1200 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1201 have wrong type
1202 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1203 wrong type
1204 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1205 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1206 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1207 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1208 threads
1209 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1210 start.S
1211 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1212 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1213 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1214 powerpc64le
1215 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1216 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1217 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1218 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1219 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1220 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1221 strftime
1222 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1223 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1224 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1225 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1226 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1227 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1228 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1229 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1230 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1231 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1232 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1233 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1234 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1235 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1236 tcache size
1237 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1238 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1239 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1240 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1241 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1242 (CVE-2018-19591)
1243 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1244 nearest rounding mode
1245 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1246 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1247 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1248 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1249 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1250 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1251 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1252 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1253 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1254 error
1255 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1256 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1257 using GCC 8
1258 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1259 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1260 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1261 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1262 ppc64le
1263 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1264 expected result
1265 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1266 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1267 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1268 sigaltstack
1269 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1270 answers will be rejected)
1271 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1275
1276Major new features:
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1279 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1280 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1281 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1282 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1283 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1284 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1285 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1286 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1287 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1288 archive or binary locales.
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1291 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1292 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1293 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1294 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1295 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1296 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1297 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1299 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1300 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1301 validated for i686.
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1304 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1305 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1306 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1307 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1308 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1311 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1312 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1315 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1316
1317 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1318 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1321 fMxsubfNx functions.
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1324 fMxmulfNx functions.
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1326 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1327 fMxdivfNx functions.
1328
e607a352 1329* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1330 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1331 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1333 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1335* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1336 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1342 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1343 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1344 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1345 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1346 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1347 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1348 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1351 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1352 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1353 the fstatat64 function.
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1355* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1356 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1357 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1358 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1359 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1360 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1361 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1362 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1363 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1366 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1367 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1368 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1369 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1370 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1371 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1372 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1373 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1374 results in a load failure now.
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1377 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1378 <threads.h>:
1379
1380 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1381 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1382
1383 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1384 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1385
1386 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1387
1388 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1389 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1390
1391 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1392
1393 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1395Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1396
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1397* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1398 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1399 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1400
1401* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1402 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1403 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1404 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1405 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1406 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1407
1408* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1409 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1410 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1411 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1412 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1413 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1414 (Bug #1190.)
1415
1416* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1417 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1418 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1419 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1420 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1421 further explanation.
1422
1423 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1424 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1425 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1427* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1429* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1430 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1431 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1433* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1434 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1435 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1436 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1438* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1439 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1440 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1441 for this function instead.
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1443* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1444 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1445 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1446
1447* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1448 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1449 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1450 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1452* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1453 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1454 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1455 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1456 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1458* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1459 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1460 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1461 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1462 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1463 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1464 such as libgcrypt.
1465
1466* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1467 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1468 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1469 enabled.
1470
1471* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1472 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1473 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
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1475* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1476 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1477 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1478 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1479 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1480 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1481
1482 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1483 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1484 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1485 behavior in a future release.
1486
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1488
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1491Security related changes:
1492
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1493 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1494 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1495 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1496 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1498 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1499 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1500
1501 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1502 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1503 Izbyshev.
1504
1505 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1506 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1507 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1511 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1512 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1513 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1514 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1515 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1516 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1517 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1518 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1519 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1520 14651
1521 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1522 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1523 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1524 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1525 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1526 conversion is given
1527 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1528 date
1529 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1530 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1531 scope with -O1 and higher
1532 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1533 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1534 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1535 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1536 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1537 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1538 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1539 horrible machine code)
1540 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1541 last constant.
1542 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1543 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1544 symbols
1545 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1546 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1547 defined
1548 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1549 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1550 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1551 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1552 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1553 fpscr.c'
1554 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1555 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1556 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1557 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1558 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1559 the base address
1560 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1561 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1562 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1563 open_verify
1564 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1565 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1566 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1567 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1568 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1569 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1570 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1571 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1572 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1573 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1574 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1575 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1576 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1577 dlopen
1578 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1579 AT_SECURE=1
1580 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1581 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1582 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1583 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1584 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1585 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1586 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1587 for Spanish with CLDR
1588 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1589 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1590 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1591 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1592 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1593 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1594 es_BO
1595 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1596 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1597 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1598 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1599 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1600 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1601 dlopen failures
1602 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1603 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1604 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1605 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1606 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1607 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1608 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1609 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1610 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1611 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1612 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1613 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1614 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1615 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1616 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1617 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1618 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1619 makecontext
1620 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1621 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1622 required
1623 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1624 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1625 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1626 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1627 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1628 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1629 disabled
1630 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1631 failure
1632 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1633 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1634 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1635 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1636 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1637 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1638 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1639 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1640 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1641 and libc build with -Os)
1642 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1643 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1644 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1645 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1646 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1647 that changes /etc/passwd
1648 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1649 (CVE-2018-11237)
1650 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1651 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1652 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1653 posix/regcomp.c
1654 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1655 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1656 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1657 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1658 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1659 AT_SECURE
1660 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1661 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1662 parser.c
1663 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1664 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1665 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1666 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1667 directed rounding
1668 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1669 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1670 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1671 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1672 lookup
1673 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1674 interposition
1675 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1676 DSO boundaries.
1677 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1678 <linux/time.h>
1679 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1680 checking
1681 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1682 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1683 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1684 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1685 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1686 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1687 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1688 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1689 processors
1690 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1693Version 2.27
1694
1695Major new features:
1696
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1697* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1698 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
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1700 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1701 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1702 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1703 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1704 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1705 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 1707* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1708 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1709 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1712
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1715* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1716 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1717 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1718 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1719 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1720 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1721 from a security and performance perspective.
1722
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1723* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1724 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1725 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1726 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1727
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1730 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1731 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1732 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1733
a23aa5b7 1734* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
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1737 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1738 _Float128.
1739
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1740* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1741 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1742 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
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1746* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1747 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1748 pkey_get.
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1750* The copy_file_range function was added.
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1752* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1753
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1754* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1755 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1756 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
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1759 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1760 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1761 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1762 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1763 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1764 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1765
1766 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1767 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1768 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1769 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1770 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1771 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1772 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1773
1774 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1775 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1777 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1778 respectively.
1779
1780 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1781 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1782 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1783 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1785 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1786 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1787 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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1790 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1791 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1794 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1795 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1796
1797 - rv64imac lp64
1798 - rv64imafdc lp64
1799 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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1804 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
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1807 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1808 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1809 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1810 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1811 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1812 fix this.
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1815 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1816 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
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1819 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1820 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1821 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1822 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1823 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1824 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1825 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1826 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1827 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1828 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1829 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1830 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1831 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1832 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1833 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1834 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1835 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1836 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1837 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1838 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1839 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1840 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1841 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1842 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1843 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1844
60e2846e
DL
1845* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1846 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
00cdcf5a 1847
813378e9
JM
1848* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1849 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1850 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1851 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1852 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1853 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1854 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1855
5a80d39d
JM
1856* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1857 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1858 exp10l for these functions instead.
1859
4fa9b3bf
JM
1860* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1861 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1862 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1863
644d3857
JM
1864* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1865 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1866 ignored.
1867
8df5d347
JM
1868* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1869 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1870 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1871 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1872
c0a25aa9
FW
1873* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1874 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1875
34eb4157
FW
1876* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1877 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1878
754034c4
JM
1879* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1880 programs.
1881
ed95f611
AZ
1882* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1883
48a8f832
ZW
1884* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1885 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1886 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1887 instead.
1888
1889 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1890 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1891 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1892 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1893 use, but predates the bits convention.
1894
00cdcf5a
SP
1895Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1896
1faaf703
JB
1897* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1898 subdirectory.
00cdcf5a
SP
1899
1900Security related changes:
1901
403143e1
FW
1902 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1903 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1904 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1905 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1906 script.)
00cdcf5a 1907
822f523b
FW
1908 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1909 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1910 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1911 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 1912
914c9994
FW
1913 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1914 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1915 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1916 of service.
1917
15e84c63
AJ
1918 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1919 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
1920 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1921
37ac8e63
FW
1922 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1923 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1924 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1925 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1926
8a0b17e4
FW
1927 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1928 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1929 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1930 Qualys.
1931
3ff3dfa5
FW
1932 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1933 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1934 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1935 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1936 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1937
3e3c904d
AJ
1938 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1939 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1940 current directory.
1941
52a713fd
DL
1942 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1943 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1944 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1945
4590634f
FW
1946 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1947 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1948 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1949
71aa429b
FW
1950 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1951 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1952 small, instead of NULL.
1953
00cdcf5a
SP
1954The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1955
242cbc90
DL
1956 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1957 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1958 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1959 locale
1960 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1961 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1962 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1963 cases
1964 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1965 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1966 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1967 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1968 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1969 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1970 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1971 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1972 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1973 "Bangla"
1974 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1975 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1976 width Latin characters
1977 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1978 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1979 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1980 letters
1981 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1982 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1983 (CVE-2009-5064)
1984 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1985 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1986 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1987 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1988 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1989 if malloc succeeded
1990 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1991 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1992 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1993 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1994 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1995 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1996 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1997 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1998 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1999 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2000 U+309A
2001 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2002 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2003 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2004 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2005 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2006 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2007 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2008 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2009 for Nicaragua
2010 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2011 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2012 are not found.
2013 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2014 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2015 access
2016 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2017 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2018 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2019 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2020 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2021 __regcall calling convention
2022 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2023 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2024 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2025 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2026 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2027 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2028 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2029 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2030 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2031 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2032 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2033 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2034 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2035 locale
2036 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2037 protector=all
2038 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2039 wcwidth
2040 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2041 consistency check failures
2042 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2043 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2044 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2045 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2046 PIE
2047 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2048 locales
2049 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2050 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2051 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2052 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2053 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2054 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2055 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2056 on memory allocation failure
2057 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2058 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2059 the suspect)
2060 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2061 default (i386)
2062 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2063 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2064 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2065 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2066 instead of EAI_NODATA
2067 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2068 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2069 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2070 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2071 implementation
2072 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2073 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2074 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2075 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2076 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2077 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2078 allocation in syscall loops)
2079 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2080 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2081 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2082 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2083 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2084 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2085 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2086 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2087 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2088 occur with -O3
2089 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2090 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2091 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2092 amounts)
2093 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2094 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2095 niu_NZ
2096 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2097 checks
2098 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2099 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2100 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2101 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2102 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2103 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2104 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2105 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2106 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2107 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2108 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2109 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2110 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2111 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2112 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2113 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2114 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2115 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2116 parsing after OOM
2117 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2118 object
2119 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2120 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2121 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2122 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2123 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2124 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2125 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2126 ppc64le
2127 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2128 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2129 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2130 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2131 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2132 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2133 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2134 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2135 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2136 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2137 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2138 math_force_eval
2139 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2140 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2141 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2142 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2143 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2144 the svid compat wrapper
2145 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2146 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2147 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2148 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2149 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2150 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2151 --verbose.
2152 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2153 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2154 to 2.26
2155 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2156 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2157 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2158 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2159 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2160 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2161 (CVE-2017-15804)
2162 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2163 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2164 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2165 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2166 failure."
2167 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2168 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2169 -m32
2170 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2171 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2172 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2173 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2174 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2175 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2176 inside the ASCII printable range
2177 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2178 -mlong-double-64
2179 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2180 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2181 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2182 Internet
2183 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2184 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2185 backslash
2186 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2187 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2188 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2189 heaps in an arena
2190 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2191 networking interface
2192 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2193 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2194 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2195 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2196 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2197 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2198 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2199 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2200 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2201 order
2202 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2203 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2204 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2205 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2206 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2207 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2208 same as for Croatian
2209 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2210 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2211 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2212 for initial thread"
2213 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2214 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2215 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2216 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2217 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2218 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2219 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2220 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2221 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2222 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2223 modified in case of success
2224 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2225 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2226 success
2227 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2228 stack-protector=all
2229 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2230 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2231 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2232 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2233 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2234 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2235 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2236 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2237 adding it on top
2238 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2239 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2240 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2241 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2242 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2243 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2244 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2245 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2246 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2247 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2248 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2249 elision and tunables
2250 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2251 "invalid" exception
2252 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2253 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2254 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2255 exception
2256 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2257 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2258 power4
2259 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2260 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2261 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2262 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2263 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2264 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2265 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2266 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2267 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2270Version 2.26
2271
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2272Major new features:
2273
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2274* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2275 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2276 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2277 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2278 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2279 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2280 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2281
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2282* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2283 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2284 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2285 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2286 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2287 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2288 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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2290* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2291 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2292 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2293
2b2ccd0c 2294* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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2296 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2297 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2298 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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2300 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2301 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2302 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2303 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2304 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2306 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2307 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2308 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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2310* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2311 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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2313* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2314 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2315 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2316 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2318* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2319 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2320 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2321 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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2323* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2324 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2325 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2326 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2328* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2329 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2330 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2331
2b2ccd0c 2332* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2333 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2334 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2335 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2336
2b2ccd0c 2337 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2338 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2339 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2340 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2341 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2342
2343 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2344 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2345 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2346 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2347 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2348 interfaces should be used instead.
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2350Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2351
2352* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2353 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2354 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2355 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2356 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2357 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2358 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2359 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2360
2361* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2362 removed.
2363
2364* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2365 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2366 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2367 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2368
2369* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2370 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2371 default.
2372
2373 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2374 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2375 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2376 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2377 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2378
2379 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2380 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2381 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2382 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2383
2384* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2385 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2386 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2387 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2388
2389* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2390 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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2392* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2393 exported by accident.
2394
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2395* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2396 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2397 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2398
2399* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2400 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2401 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2402 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2403
2404* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2405
2406* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2407
2408* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2409 free instead.
2410
2411* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2412 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2413
2414* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2415 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2416
2417* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2418 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2419 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2420 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2421 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2422 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2423 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2424 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2425
2426* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2427 synced with the kernel:
2428
2429 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2430 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2431
2432 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2433 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2434 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2435
2436 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2437 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2438
2439Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2440
2441* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2442 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2443 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2444
7e368000 2445* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2447* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2448 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2449
2450 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2451 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2452 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2453 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2454 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2456Security related changes:
2457
e14a2772 2458* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2459 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2460
2461* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2462 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2463
2464* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2465 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2466 (CVE-2010-3192).
2467
2468* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2469 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2471The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2472
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2473 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2474 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2475 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2476 fields
2477 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2478 (CVE-2010-3192)
2479 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2480 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2481 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2482 ld.bfd is available
2483 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2484 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2485 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2486 x86 and other generic code
2487 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2488 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2489 incorrect
2490 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2491 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2492 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2493 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2494 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2495 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2496 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2497 resolver
2498 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2499 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2500 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2501 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2502 chillu characters
2503 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2504 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2505 receiving data
2506 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2507 whitespace
2508 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2509 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2510 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2511 for Peru
2512 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2513 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2514 failures consistently
2515 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2516 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2517 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2518 frame-pointer on i386
2519 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2520 register
2521 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2522 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2523 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2524 generic c code is used
2525 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2526 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2527 around 4000
2528 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2529 (CVE-2017-12133)
2530 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2531 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2532 with -lieee
2533 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2534 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2535 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2536 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2537 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2538 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2539 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2540 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2541 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2542 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2543 remove()
2544 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2545 checked for errors.
2546 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2547 new posix_spawn implementation
2548 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2549 leads to lower CPU frequency
2550 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2551 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2552 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2553 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2554 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2555 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2556 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2557 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2558 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2559 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2560 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2561 not support gethostbyname4_r
2562 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2563 switching
2564 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2565 arenas
2566 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2567 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2568 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2569 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2570 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2571 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2572 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2573 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2574 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2575 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2576 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2577 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2578 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2579 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2580 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2581 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2582 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2583 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2584 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2585 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2586 retry value
2587 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2588 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2589 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2590 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2591 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2592 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2593 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2594 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2595 [21537] libc:
2596 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2597 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2598 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2599 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2600 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2601 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2602 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2603 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2604 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2605 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2606 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2607 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2608 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2609 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2610 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2611 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2612 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2613 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2614 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2615 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2616 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2617 issue on x86-64
2618 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2619 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2620 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2621 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2622 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2623 construction
2624 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2625 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2626 between_2_3
2627 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2628 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2629 conditions
2630 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2631 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2632 Hindi Locale
2633 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2634 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2635 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2636 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2637 locale
2638 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2639 leading to relocation crash
2640 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2641 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2642 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2643 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2644 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2645 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2646 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2647 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2648 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2649 locale
2650 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2651 locale
2652 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2653 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2654 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2655 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2656 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2657 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2658 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2659 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2660 strings
2661 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2662 protector=all
2663 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2664 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2665 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2666 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2667 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2668 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2669 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2670 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2671 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2672 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2673 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2674 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2675 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2676 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2677 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2678 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2679 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2680 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2681 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2682 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2683 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2684 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2685 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2686 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2687 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2688 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2689 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2690 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2691 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2692 with unicode 9.0
2693 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2694 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2695 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2696 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2697 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2700Version 2.25
2701
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2702* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2703 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2704 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2705 Library.
e720d3d9 2706
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2707* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2708 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2709 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2710 the GNU C Library.
2711
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2712* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2713 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2714 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2715 the GNU C Library.
2716
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2717* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2718 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2719 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2720 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2721 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2722 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2723 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2724 will not.
2725
2726 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2727 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2728 many years.
2729
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2730* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2731 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2732 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2733
2734 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2735 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2736 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2737 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2738 problem.
2739
ec94343f 2740* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2741 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2742 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 2743
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2744* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2745 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2746 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2747 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2748 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2749 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2750 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2751 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2752 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2753 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2754 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2755 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 2756
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2757* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2758
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2759 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2760
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2761 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2762 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2763 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2764
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2765 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2766 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2767
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2768 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2769 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2770
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2771 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2772
29cb9293 2773 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 2774
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2775 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2776 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 2777
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2778 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2779
eb3c12c7 2780 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2781 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 2782
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2783* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2784 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2785
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2786* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2787 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2788 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2789
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2790* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2791 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2792 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2793 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2794 effects of the memory clear).
2795
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2796* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2797 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2798 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2799 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2800
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2801* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2802 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2803 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2804 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2805 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2806 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 2807
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2808* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2809 have been added.
2810
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2811* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2812 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2813 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2814 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2815 as large as several megabytes.
2816
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2817* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2818 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2819 been removed.
2820
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2821* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2822 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2823 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2824 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2825 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2826 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2827 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2828
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2829* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2830 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2831 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2832 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2833
099191b1 2834* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2835 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2836 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2837 Internet.
2838
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2839* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2840 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2841 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 2842
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2843* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2844 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2845 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2846 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2847
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2848* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2849 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2850 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2851 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2852 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2853
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2854* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2855 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2856 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2857 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2858 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2859
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2860* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2861 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2862 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2863 did not reflect that.
2864
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2865* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2866 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2867 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2868 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2869 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2870 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2871 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2872 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2873
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2874* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2875 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2876 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2877 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2878
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2879* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2880 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2881 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2882 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2883
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2884* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2885 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2886 guarantees.
2887
2888* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2889 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2890 make state changes.
2891
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2892Security related changes:
2893
fc82b0a2 2894* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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2895 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2896 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2897 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2898 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2899
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2900* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2901 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2902 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2903 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2904 (CVE-2015-5180)
2905
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2906The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2907
fdb724f9 2908 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
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2909 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2910 protector-all
2911 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2912 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2913 before it started waiting
2914 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2915 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2916 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2917 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2918 wrong type
2919 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2920 library linked with pthread
2921 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2922 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2923 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2924 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2925 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2926 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2927 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2928 when it shouldnt
2929 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2930 not
2931 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2932 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2933 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2934 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2935 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2936 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2937 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2938 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2939 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2940 termination
2941 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2942 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2943 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2944 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2945 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2946 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2947 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2948 causes a segmentation fault
2949 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2950 linking
2951 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2952 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2953 uninitialized GOT
2954 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2955 versions
2956 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2957 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2958 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2959 is always true.
2960 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2961 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2962 modes
2963 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2964 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2965 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2966 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2967 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2968 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2969 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2970 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2971 libpthread.a
2972 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2973 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2974 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2975 _res_hconf
2976 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2977 information.
2978 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2979 penalty
2980 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2981 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2982 cause transition penalty
2983 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2984 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2985 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2986 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2987 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2988 mcount.oS)
2989 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2990 Checking
2991 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2992 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2993 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2994 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2995 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2996 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2997 multi-arch
2998 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2999 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3000 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3001 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3002 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3003 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3004 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3005 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3006 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3007 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3008 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3009 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3010 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3011 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3012 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3013 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3014 glibc
3015 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3016 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3017 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3018 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3019 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3020 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3021 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3022 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3023 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3024 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3025 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3026 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3027 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3028 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3029 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3030 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3031 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3032 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3033 RES_USE_INET6
3034 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3035 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3036 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3037 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3038 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3039 wrong condition
3040 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3041 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3042 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3043 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3044 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3045 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3046 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3047 clang
3048 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3049 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3050 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3051 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3052 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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3054Version 2.24
3055
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3056* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3057 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3058 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3059 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3060 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3061 architectures.
3062
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3063* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3064 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3065 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3066
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3067* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3068 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3069
b49ab5f4
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3070* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3071 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3072 instead of “union wait”.
3073
ced8f893
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3074* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3075 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3076 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3077 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3078 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3079 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3080 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3081
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3082* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3083 API.
3084
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3085* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3086 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3087 drop it.
6a54bcda 3088
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3089* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3090 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3091 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3092 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3093 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3094 extensions.
3095
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3096Security related changes:
3097
f5b3338d
FW
3098* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3099 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3100 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3101
4ab2ab03
FW
3102* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3103 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3104 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3105 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3106
5171f307
FW
3107* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3108 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3109 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3110
bc779a1a
FW
3111* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3112 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3113 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3114
fab38231
FW
3115* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3116 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3117 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3118 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3119
11fca961
AZ
3120The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3121
3c4f81ec
CD
3122 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3123 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3124 of MS-DOS.
3125 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3126 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3127 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3128 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3129 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3130 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3131 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3132 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3133 CLDR data
3134 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3135 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3136 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3137 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3138 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3139 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3140 romanisation
3141 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3142 and +/-
3143 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3144 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3145 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3146 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3147 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3148 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3149 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3150 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3151 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3152 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3153 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3154 all locales
3155 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3156 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3157 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3158 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3159 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3160 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3161 execute
3162 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3163 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3164 -Wsystem-headers
3165 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3166 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3167 Romanian locale data
3168 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3169 symbol
3170 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3171 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3172 language
3173 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3174 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3175 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3176 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3177 machine
3178 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3179 description
3180 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3181 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3182 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3183 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3184 when using RTLD_NEXT
3185 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3186 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3187 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3188 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3189 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3190 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3191 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3192 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3193 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3194 Excavator core
3195 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3196 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3197 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3198 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3199 double range
3200 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3201 part zero incorrect
3202 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3203 equality tests
3204 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3205 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3206 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3207 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3208 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3209 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3210 glibc-2.22
3211 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3212 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3213 'tst-numeric.c'
3214 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3215 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3216 low part
3217 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3218 result
3219 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3220 unaligned stack
3221 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3222 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3223 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3224 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3225 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3226 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3227 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3228 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3229 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3230 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3231 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3232 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3233 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3234 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3235 modes
3236 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3237 server addresses
3238 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3239 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3240 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3241 response to getaddrinfo
3242 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3243 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3244 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3245 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3246 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3247 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3248 sometimes incorrect
3249 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3250 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3251 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3252 record types
3253 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3254 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3255 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3256 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3257 (CVE-2016-3075)
3258 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3259 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3260 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3261 resolving symbols
3262 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3263 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3264 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3265 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3266 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3267 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3268 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3269 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3270 gethosts
3271 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3272 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3273 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3274 (CVE-2016-3706)
3275 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3276 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3277 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3278 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3279 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3280 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3281 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3282 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3283 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3284 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3285 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3286 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3287 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3288 executable
3289 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3290 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3291 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3292 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3293 XPG3
3294 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3295 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3296 (CVE-2016-4429)
3297 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3298 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3299 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3300 AS not supporting AVX512
3301 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3302 sNaN argument
3303 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3304 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3305 argument
3306 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3307 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3308 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3309 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3310 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3311 eax=0x80000001
3312 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3313 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3314 subnormals
3315 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3316 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3317 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3318 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3319 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3320 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3321 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3322 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3323 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3324 input
3325 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3326 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3327 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3328 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3329 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3330 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3331 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3332 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3333 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3334 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3335 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3336 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3337 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3338 double rounding
3339 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3340 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3341 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3342 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3343 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3344 (Only arm/linux)
3345 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3346 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3347 fallbacks
3348 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3349 "invalid" exceptions
3350 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3351 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3352 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3353 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3354 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3355 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3356 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3357 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3358 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3359\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3360Version 2.23
3361
23256f5e
MF
3362* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3363 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3364 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3365 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3366 89, 16061, and 18568.
3367
2359035a
FW
3368* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3369 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3370 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3371 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3372 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3373 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3374 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3375
8b7b7f75
MW
3376* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3377 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3378 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3379
2eecc8af
FW
3380* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3381 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3382 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3383 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3384 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3385 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3386 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3387
a62719ba
FW
3388* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3389 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3390 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3391 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3392 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3393 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3394 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3395 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3396
bc148ca1
MF
3397* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3398 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3399 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3400 independent of the GNU C Library.
3401
1c70b6f1
ZW
3402* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3403 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3404
eed3e1eb
JM
3405* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3406 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3407 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3408 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3409 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3410 Linux kernel.
3411
1efad39b
SL
3412* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3413 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3414
d709042a
JM
3415* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3416 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3417 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3418 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3419 defining their own copy.
3420
b08b4218
JM
3421* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3422 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3423 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3424
8f5e8b01
JM
3425Security related changes:
3426
6400ae6e
FW
3427* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3428 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3429
3430* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3431 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3432 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3433 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3434 (CVE-2015-8777)
3435
3436* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3437 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3438
3439* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3440 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3441
8f5e8b01
JM
3442* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3443 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3444 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3445
e9db92d3
CD
3446* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3447 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3448 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3449 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3450 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3451 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3452 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3453 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3454 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3455 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3456 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3457 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3458 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3459
ad372e29 3460The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3461
ad372e29
AZ
3462 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3463 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3464 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3465 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3466 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3467 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3468 use `mkstemp'
3469 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3470 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3471 overflow/underflow errors
3472 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3473 overflow/underflow
3474 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3475 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3476 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3477 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3478 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3479 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3480 are not contiguous
3481 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3482 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3483 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3484 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3485 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3486 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3487 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3488 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3489 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3490 all exceptions
3491 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3492 arguments
3493 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3494 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3495 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3496 should include
3497 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3498 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3499 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3500 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3501 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3502 GNU/Linux
3503 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3504 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3505 arguments
3506 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3507 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3508 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3509 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3510 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3511 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3512 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3513 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3514 rounding results
3515 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3516 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3517 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3518 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3519 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3520 fails
3521 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3522 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3523 block boundary
3524 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3525 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3526 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3527 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3528 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3529 4.7?
3530 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3531 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3532 (related to lock elision)
3533 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3534 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3535 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3536 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3537 (CVE-2015-8779)
3538 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3539 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3540 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3541 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3542 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3543 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3544 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3545 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3546 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3547 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3548 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3549 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3550 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3551 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3552 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3553 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3554 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3555 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3556 contains a vector instruction exception.
3557 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3558 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3559 locales
3560 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3561 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3562 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3563 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3564 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3565 missing break ?
3566 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3567 32bit processes
3568 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3569 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3570 infinity
3571 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3572 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3573 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3574 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3575 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3576 be forced unloaded
3577 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3578 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3579 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3580 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3581 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3582 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3583 statically too large
3584 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3585 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3586 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3587 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3588 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3589 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3590 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3591 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3592 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3593 FUTEX_SHARED
3594 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3595 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3596 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3597 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3598 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3599 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3600 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3601 opendir()
3602 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3603 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3604 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3605 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3606 signgam
3607 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3608 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3609 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3610 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3611 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3612 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3613 dependencies
3614 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3615 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3616 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3617 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3618 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3619 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3620 (CVE-2015-8776)
3621 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3622 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3623 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3624 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3625 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3626 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3627 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3628 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3629 contention
3630 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3631 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3632 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3633 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3634 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3635 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3636 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3637 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3638 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3639 rounding modes
3640 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3641 ILP32
3642 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3643 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3644 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3645 threshold
3646 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3647 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3648 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3649 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3650 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3651 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3652 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3653 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3654 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3655 pthread_setaffinity_np
3656 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3657 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3658 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3659 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3660 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3661 prelink
3662 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3663 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3664 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3665 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3666 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3667 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3668 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3669 bits/mathcalls.h
3670 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3671 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3672 for C99-based standards
3673 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3674 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3675 math-only
3676 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3677 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3678 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3679 disabled
3680 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3681 "inexact" exceptions
3682 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3683 arguments
3684 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3685 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3686 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3687 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3688 rules
3689 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3690 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3691 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3692 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3693 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3694 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3695 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3696 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3697 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3698 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3699 from 32bit
3700 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3701 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3702 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3703 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3704 subnormals
3705 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3706 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3707 error on 32-bit architectures
3708 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3709 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3710 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3711 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3712 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3713 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3714 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3715 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3716 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3717 -Os
3718 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3719 CPU's.
3720 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3721 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3722 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3723 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3724 architectures
3725 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3726\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3727Version 2.22
3728
3729* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3730
3df5cd98 3731 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3732 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3733 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3734 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3735 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3736 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3737 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3738 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3739 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3740 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3741 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3742 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3743 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3744 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3745 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3746 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3747 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3748 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3749 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3750 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3751
f7fba805
SL
3752* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3753 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3754
2959eda9
AS
3755* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3756 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3757 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3758 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3759 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3760 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3761
42261ad7
FW
3762* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3763 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3764 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3765 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3766 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3767
afcd9480
AM
3768* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3769 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3770 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3771
4a4839c9
AO
3772* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3773 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3774 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3775 17998.
3776
b13b96ca
AS
3777* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3778 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3779 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3780
3781* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3782 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3783 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3784 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3785 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3786 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3787 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3788 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3789
3790* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3791 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3792 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3793 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3794
3795* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3796 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3797 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3798
3799* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3800 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3801
3802* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3803 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3804 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3805
a03ba363 3806 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3807 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3808 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3809\f
58b930ae
SP
3810Version 2.21
3811
3812* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3813
042e1521 3814 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3815 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3816 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3817 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3818 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3819 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3820 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3821 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3822 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3823 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3824 17892.
3825
46d54873
FW
3826* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3827 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3828 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3829 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3830 intended.
042e1521
CD
3831
3832* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3833 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3834 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3835 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3836 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3837 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3838
522e6ee3
CLT
3839* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3840
d3b00f46
AZ
3841* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3842 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3843 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3844
8d2c0a59
AZ
3845* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3846 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3847 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3848 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3849 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3850 effects being visible outside transactions.
3851
dc400d7b
RE
3852* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3853 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3854
0f9dfe04
L
3855* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3856
a39208bd
CD
3857* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3858 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3859 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3860 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3861 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3862
a5357b7c
JL
3863* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3864 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3865
e54db0ea
AM
3866* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3867 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3868 format.
11e3417a 3869
4863355a
JM
3870* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3871 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3872 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3873
a4ecc9eb
JM
3874* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3875 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3876
0d560bbf 3877* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3878
3879* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3880 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3881 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3882 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3883
3884* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3885 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3886
3887* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3888 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3889 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3890 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3891 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3892 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3893 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3894 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3895 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3896 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3897 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3898 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3899 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3900
3901 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3902 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3903 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3904 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3905 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3906\f
d5b396c1
AM
3907Version 2.20
3908
3909* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3910
6a9350c8
JM
3911 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3912 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3913 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3914 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3915 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3916 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3917 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3918 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3919 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3920 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3921 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3922 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3923 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3924 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3925 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3926
95ee7fb1
SL
3927* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3928 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3929 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3930 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3931 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3932 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3933 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3934 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3935 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3936 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3937
0961f7e1
JL
3938* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3939 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3940 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3941 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3942 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3943
f940b965
RE
3944* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3945
d0f5b3f8
JM
3946* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3947 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3948
d6fe5e58
JM
3949* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3950 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3951 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3952 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3953 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3954 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3955
464263cc
JM
3956* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3957 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3958
3959* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3960 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3961 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3962 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3963 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3964 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3965 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3966
3967* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3968
3969* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3970 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3971 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3972 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3973 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3974 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3975 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3976
3977* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3978 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3979 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3980 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3981 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3982
3983* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3984 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3985 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3986
3987* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3988 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3989 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3990 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3991
3992* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3993 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3994 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3995 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3996 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3997 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3998 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3999 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4000
4001* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4002 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4003 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4004 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4005 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4006 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4007 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4008 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4009 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4010
4011* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4012 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4013 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4014 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4015 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4016 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4017
4018* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4019 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4020 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4021 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4022\f
4023Version 2.19
4024
4025* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4026
fd2f9486
JM
4027 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4028 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4029 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4030 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4031 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4032 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4033 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4034 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4035 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4036 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4037 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4038 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4039 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4040 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4041 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4042 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4043 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4044 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4045
11520a57
CD
4046* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4047 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4048
2fe16229
CD
4049* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4050 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4051 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4052 extension which uses __block.
4053
303e567a
SP
4054* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4055 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4056 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4057 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4058 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4059
141f3a77
SP
4060* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4061 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4062 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4063 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4064 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4065
4066* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4067 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4068 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4069 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4070 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4071
4072* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4073 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4074 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4075
ba0d798c
WN
4076* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4077 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4078 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4079 #15856, #15857).
4080
7cbcdb36
SP
4081* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4082 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4083
82bab04b 4084* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4085 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4086
c5f840fd
MB
4087* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4088
3e181dda
CD
4089* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4090 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4091
3e181dda 4092* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4093
8a05c252
CL
4094* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4095
6055173a
JM
4096* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4097 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4098 for which the C library was built.
4099
b125d3e5
JM
4100* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4101 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4102 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4103 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4104 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4105 in the following circumstances:
4106
4107 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4108
4109 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4110 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4111
d4f66d37
JM
4112* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4113 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4114
3e181dda
CD
4115* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4116 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4117
ffb89e53
AO
4118* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4119
5d29ccce
SP
4120* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4121 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4122
8b7d57cd 4123* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4124
4125* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4126
fd712ef3 4127* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4128
c688b419
JM
4129* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4130 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4131 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4132 disable some of those declarations.
4133
7011c262 4134* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4135 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4136 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4137
4138* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4139 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4140
4141* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4142 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4143 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4144 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4145 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4146 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4147 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4148 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4149 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4150 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4151 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4152 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4153 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4154\f
4155Version 2.18
4156
4157* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4158
17db6e8d 4159 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4160 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4161 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4162 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4163 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4164 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4165 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4166 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4167 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4168 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4169 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4170 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4171 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4172 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4173
4174* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4175 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4176 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4177 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4178 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4179 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4180
5b535ac4
AS
4181* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4182 #15078).
4183
1cef1b19
AS
4184* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4185 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4186
55e4107b
SP
4187* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4188 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4189 destructor calls to glibc.
4190
e5c74c63
SP
4191* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4192 output.
4193
4194* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4195 non-x86 architectures.
4196
e7521973
JM
4197* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4198
4199* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4200
4201* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4202 Richard Henderson.
4203
4204* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4205
4206* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4207 Richard Henderson.
4208
4209* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4210 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4211
8cfdb7e0
SP
4212* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4213
57267616
TS
4214* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4215 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4216
c204ab28
SP
4217* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4218 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4219
0748546f
PE
4220* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4221 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4222 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4223
61dd6208
SP
4224* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4225 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4226 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4227
4228* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4229 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4230 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4231 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4232 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4233
4234* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4235 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4236
4237* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4238\f
4239Version 2.17
4240
4241* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4242
80ceeaee 4243 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4244 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4245 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4246 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4247 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4248 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4249 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4250 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4251 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4252 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4253 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4254 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4255 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4256 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4257 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4258
95b4f1b6
SE
4259* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4260
14bc93a9
JL
4261* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4262 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4263
b54eb3cb
JM
4264* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4265 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4266
7e2bd01f
MS
4267* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4268
08f43f9b
AK
4269* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4270 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4271 zEnterprise z196.
4272 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4273
84b3fd84
FW
4274* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4275 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4276 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4277
815e6fa3
GB
4278* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4279 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4280
400726de
MK
4281* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4282 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4283
7aab07e4 4284* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4285 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4286
15d0da8c
WS
4287* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4288 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4289
3cc3ef96
RM
4290* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4291 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4292 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4293 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4294
b54eb3cb
JM
4295* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4296 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4297
85429b1a 4298* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4299 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4300 default.
4301
b54eb3cb
JM
4302* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4303 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4304 information in --help and --version output.
4305
050af9c4
SP
4306* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4307 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4308 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4309
89a3ad0b
AO
4310* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4311 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4312 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4313 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4314 when the mode is enabled.
4315
6e6249d0
RM
4316* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4317 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4318 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4319 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4320 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4321 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4322 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4323
d9286582
NK
4324* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4325 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4326\f
4327Version 2.16
4328
4329* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4330
a8133e19
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4331 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4332 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4333 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4334 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4335 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4336 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4337 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4338 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4339 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4340 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4341 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4342 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4343 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4344 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4345 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4346 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4347 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4348 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4349 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4350 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4351 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4352 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4353 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4354
a086b4d6
L
4355* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4356 configuring glibc with:
4357 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4358 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4359 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4360
380d7e87
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4361* ISO C11 support:
4362
4363 + define static_assert
4364
4365 + do not declare gets
4366
4367 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4368
4369 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4370 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4371 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4372 implementation.
8d44e150 4373
74033a25 4374 + timespec_get added
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4375
4376 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4377
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4378 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4379
16dd419d
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4380 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4381
9dc4e1fb 4382* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4383
4384* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
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4385
4386* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4387 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4388
4389* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4390 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
4391
4392* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4393 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4394 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4395 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4396 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4397
21708942 4398* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
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4399 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4400 before 2.6.
83678f76 4401
edb00e4d
RH
4402* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4403 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4404 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4405
83678f76 4406* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
4407
4408* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4409 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4410 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4411 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4412 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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4413
4414* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4415
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4416* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4417 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
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4418
4419* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4420
4421* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4422 without a previously built glibc.
4423
4424* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4425 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4426
4427* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4428 now supported for ARM processors.
4429
4430* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4431 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4432 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4433
4434* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4435
4436* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4437 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4438 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4439 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
4440
4441* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4442 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4443 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4444 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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CD
4445
4446* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4447 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4448 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4449 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4450 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4451
4452* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4453 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4454 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4455 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4457Version 2.15
11988f8f 4458
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4459* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4460
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4461 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4462 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4463 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4464 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4465 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4466 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4467 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4468
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4469* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4470 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
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4471
4472* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4473 and support for initgroups lookups.
4474 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
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4475
4476* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4477 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4478
4479* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4480 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4481
fc2ee42a
LD
4482* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4483 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4484 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4485
d42964a0 4486* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
4487 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4488
1d3e4b61
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4489* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4490 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
4491 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4492
c55fbd1e
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4493* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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4495
4496* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4497 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4498
4499* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4500 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
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4501
4502* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
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4504
4505* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4506 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4507
4508* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4509 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4510
4511* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
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4512
4513* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4515
f0b264f1
AZ
4516* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4517 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4518
6b64057b 4519* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4520\f
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9f94d2ea 4522
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4523* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4524
553149f6 4525 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4526 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4527 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4528 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4529 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4530 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4531 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4532 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4533 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4534 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4535
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4536* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4537 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4538 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4539 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
018b9e36
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4540
4541 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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4542 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4543 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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4544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4545
c6489db3 4546* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4547 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4548
72d1dddb 4549* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4550 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
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4551
4552* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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4553
4554* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4555 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
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4556
4557* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4558 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4559 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4560 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 4561\f
4828935d
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4562Version 2.13
4563
ac2b484c
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4564* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4565
c30b7ee2
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4566 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4567 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4568 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4569 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4570 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4571
10b3bedc 4572* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4573
ac2b484c 4574* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4575
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4576* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4577 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4578 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 4579\f
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4580Version 2.12
4581
d36b9613
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4582* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4583
2e0fb521
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4584 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4585 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4586 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4587 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4588 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4589 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4590 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4591 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
86a4c67f
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4592
4593* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4594
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4595* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4596
5e4295fb
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4597* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4598
4599* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4600 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4601 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4602
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4603* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4604 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4605 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4606 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4608
d36b9613 4609* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
b50f8e42
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4610\f
4611Version 2.11
4612
d36b9613
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4613* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4614
4615 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4616 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4617 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4618 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4619 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4620 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4621
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4622* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4623 mkostemps64
3d5243d4
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4624 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4625
24ab9c76 4626* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
b50f8e42
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4627 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4628
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4629* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4630 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4631
51a71cf0
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4632* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4633
0122f28e 4634* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 4635 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4636 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
0122f28e
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4637 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4638
9d36a6c4 4639 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
0122f28e
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4640 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4641
9d36a6c4
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4642* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4643 strstr, strcasestr.
4644 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4645
4646* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4647 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4648
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4649* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4650 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4651
4652* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4653 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4654
4655* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4656 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4657 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4658 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4659 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4660 necessity is every process again.
4661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4662
9d36a6c4
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4663* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4664 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4665
4666* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4667 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4668
4bc1b896
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4669* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4670 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4672
9dd5b8a1 4673* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4674\f
4675Version 2.10
4676
d36b9613
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4677* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4678
4679 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4680 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4681 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4682 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4683 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4684
bb066545 4685* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
e109c612
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4686 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4687
425ce2ed 4688* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4689 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4690
1fdd89a7 4691* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4692 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 4693
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4694* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4695 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4696
1f04d005 4697* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4698 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4699
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4700* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4702
878b72c5
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4703* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4704 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4705
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4706* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4707 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4708
4709* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4710 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4712
735be400 4713* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4714
84aa52d7 4715* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
9d26efa9
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4716 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4717
4718* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4719 and extend existing format specifiers.
a152f366
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4720 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4721
c7e74e59
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4722* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4723 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4724
57be3fd7
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4725* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4726 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4727 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4728 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4729 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4732Version 2.9
4733
d36b9613
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4734* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4735
597d0267
ST
4736 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
4737 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4738 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4739 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4740 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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4743 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4744
4745* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4746 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4748* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4749 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4751* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4752 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4753 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4754
4755* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4756 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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4760* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4761 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4763* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4764 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4765 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4766 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4767
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4768* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4769 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4771* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4772 Sinhala)
48b22986 4773 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4775* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4778
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4780
4781 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4782 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4783 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4784 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4785 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4786 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4787 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4788
e038616f 4789* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 4791* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4793* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4794 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4795
4796* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4797
4798* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4799 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4800
4801* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4803
4804* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4805 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4806 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4807
4808* Faster memset for x86-64.
4809 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4810
4811* Faster memcpy on x86.
4812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4813
4814* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4815 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4817* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4818 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4821
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4822* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4823
4824 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4825 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4826 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4827 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4828 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4829
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4830* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4831 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4832
4833* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4834
4835* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4836 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4837 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4838
4839* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4840 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4841
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4843 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4844
4845* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4846
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4847* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4848 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4849
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4850* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4851 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4852
4853* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4854 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4855
4856* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4857
4858* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4859 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4861* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4862 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4863 yo_NG.
4864
4865+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4871
4872 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4873 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4874 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4875 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4876 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4877 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4878 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4879 4702, 4858
4880
bce20b9a 4881* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4884
b21fa963 4885* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4888
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4890
4891 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4892 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4893 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4894 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4895 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4896 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4897 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4898 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4899 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4900
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4902 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4903 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4905* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4906 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4907
871b9158 4908* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4910* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4912* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4913 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4914 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4915 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4916 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4917
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4919 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4920 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4921 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4922
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4923* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4924 Ulrich Drepper.
4925
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4926* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4927
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4928* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4929 Ulrich Drepper.
4930
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4931* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4932
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4933* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4934 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4936Version 2.4
4937
4938* More overflow detection functions.
4939
4940* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4941 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4943 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4944 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4945 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4946 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4947 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4948 by Masahide Washizawa.
4949
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4950* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4951 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4953* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4954 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4955 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4956 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4958* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4959 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4960
4961* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4962
4963* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4964 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4965 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4966
4967* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4968 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4969
4970* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4971 for compatibility with some other systems.
4972
4973* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4975Version 2.3.6
4976
4977* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4978
4979 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4980 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4981 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4982 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4983 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4984 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4985
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4988* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4989
4990* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4992Version 2.3.5
4993
4994* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4995
4996 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4997 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4998 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4999 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5000
5a82c748 5001 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5003Version 2.3.4
5004
5005* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5006 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5007
5008* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5009 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5010 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5011
5012* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5013 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5014
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5016 efficiently.
5017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5018
5019* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5020 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5021 handling data.
5022
5023* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5024 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5025 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5027* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5028 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5029
5030* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5031 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5032 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5033 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5034
5035* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5036 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5037 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5038 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5039
5040* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5041 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5042 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5043 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5044 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5046Version 2.3.3
5047
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5048* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5049 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5050
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5051* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5052 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5055 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5056
5057* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5058 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5060* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5061 by Roland McGrath.
5062
c5af724c 5063* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5064 and Ulrich Drepper.
5065
5066* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5067 RFC 3484.
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5069Version 2.3.2
5070
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5071* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5072 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5073 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5074 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5075 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5076 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5077 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5078 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5079 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5080
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5081* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5082 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5083 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5084
5085* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5087* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5088 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5090* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5091 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5092
52a16e58 5093* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5095* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5096 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5098* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5099 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5100 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5101 of weak definition in ld.so.
5102
5103* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5104 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5105
5106* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5107 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5111* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5112 charsets.
5113
5114* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5115 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 5116
bb0ec5bd 5117* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5118 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5120* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5121 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5122
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5124 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5125 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5127* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5128 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5129
bb0ec5bd 5130* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5131 implementation of regex.
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5132
5133* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5134 Unicode 3.2.
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5136* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5137 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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5139* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5140 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5141 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5142
5143* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5145
5146* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5147 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5148 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5150* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5151 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5152
5153* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5154 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5155 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5157* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5160
5161* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5162 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5163
5164* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5165 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5167Version 2.2.5
5168
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5169* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5170 128-bit long double format.
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5172* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5173 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5174
ad2e4f18 5175* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5177* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5178
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5179* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5180 as well.
5181
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5182* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5183 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5184
5185* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5187Version 2.2.4
5188
2995f70e 5189* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5190 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5191
5192* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5193 support Unicode 3.1.
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5194
5195* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5196 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5197
69d5f925 5198* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5199
69d5f925 5200* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5201 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5202 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5203
5204* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5205 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5206
5207* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5208 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5209
5210* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5212Version 2.2.3
5213
1746f2b0 5214* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5215 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5216 in float, double, and long double format.
5217
f128331c 5218* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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5219 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5220 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 5221
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5222* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5223 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5224 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5225 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5226
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5227* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5228 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5229 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5230
5231* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5232 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5233
5234* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5235 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5236
5237* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5238 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5239 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5240
5241* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5242 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5243
5244* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5245 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5246
5247* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5249Version 2.2.2
5250
464d97ec 5251* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5252 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5253 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5254 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5255 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5256 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5257 other headers.
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5258
5259* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5260 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5261
5262* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5263 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5264 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5265 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5266
5267* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5268 locales. While
5269
5270 locale -a
5271
5272 only lists the names of the supported locales
5273
5274 locale -a --verbose
5275
5276 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5277 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5279Version 2.2.1
5280
5281* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5282 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5283 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5284 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5285 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5286
5287 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5288
5289 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5290
5291 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5292
5293* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5294 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5295 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5296
5297* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5298 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5299
5300* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5301 changed from the default "C" locale.
5302
5303* The usual bug fixes.
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5305Version 2.2
5306
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5307* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5308 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5309 is in progress.
5310
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5311* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5312
793bd4d9 5313* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5315 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5316 obviously requires a database library being available.
5317
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5318* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5319
abbffdf9 5320* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5322* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5323 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5324
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5325* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5326
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5327* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5328 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5329 and Mark Kettenis.
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5330
5331 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5332 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5333 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5334
a00c3ca9 5335 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5336 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5337
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5338* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5339 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5340 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5341
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5342* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5343 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5344 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5346
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5347 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5348 structures for the wide character tables.
5349
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5350* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5351
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5352* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5353
5354* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5355
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5356* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5357 and Yutaka Niibe.
5358
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5359* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5360
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5361* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5362
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5363* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5364
5365* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5366
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5367* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5368
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5369* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5370 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5371 implemented for Linux.
5372
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5373* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5374 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5375 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5376 versions.
5377
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5378* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5379 Masahide Washizawa.
5380
8f3f1e09 5381* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5382\f
5383Version 2.1.3
5384
5385* bug fixes
5386
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5387\f
5388Version 2.1.2
5389
5390* bug fixes
5391
28f540f4 5392\f
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5393Version 2.1.1
5394
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5395* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5396
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5397* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5398
407d26b7 5399* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5400
5401* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5402
407d26b7 5403* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5404
407d26b7 5405* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5406
5407* Update timezone data files.
27995311 5408
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5409* lots of charmaps corrections
5410
5411* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5412
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5414Version 2.1
5415
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5416* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5417 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5418 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5419 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5420 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5421 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5422
c84142e8 5423* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5424 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5425
1fb05e3d 5426* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5427 symbol level.
5428
5429* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5430 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5431
cbdee279 5432* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5433
5434* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5435 numbers.
377a515b 5436
cbdee279 5437* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5438
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5439* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5440 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5441
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5442* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5443 library.
5444
e61abf83 5445* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5446 functions from ISO C 9X.
5447
5448* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5449 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5450
a5a0310d 5451* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5452
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5453* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5454
5455* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5456
440d13e2 5457* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5458
5459* Optimized string functions have been added.
5460
5461* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5462
5463* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5465* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5466 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5467
5468 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5469 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5470
0dee6738 5471 user system wall
48244d09 5472
0dee6738 5473 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5474
0dee6738 5475 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5476
0dee6738 5477 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5479 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5480
5481 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5482
5483 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5485 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5486 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5487 horribly slow.
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5489 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5490 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5491
5492* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5493
5494* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5495
5496* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5497 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5498
5499* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5501* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5502 Bambrough.
5503
5504* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5505 latest draft standards.
5506
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5507* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5508
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5509* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5510~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5513argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5514argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5515argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5516argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5517argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5518argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5519argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5520argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5521argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5522argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5523authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5524authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5525authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5526backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5527backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5528backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5529cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5530cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5531cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5532cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5533cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5534cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5535capget NEW: kernel
5536capset NEW: kernel
5537carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5538cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5539cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5540casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5541casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5542casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5543casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5544casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5545casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5546catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5547catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5548catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5549catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5550catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5551catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5553ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5554ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5555ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5556ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5557ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5558ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5559cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5560cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5561cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5562cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5563cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5564cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5565clearerr_locked REMOVED
5566clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5567clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5568clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5569clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5570clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5571clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5572clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5573conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5574conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5575conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5576cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5577cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5578cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5579cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5580cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5581cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5582creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5583crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5584creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5585creat64 NEW: LFS
5586csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5587csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5588csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5589csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5590csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5591csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5592csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5593csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5594csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5595ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5596ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5597ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5598ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5599ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5600ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5601des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5602ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5603endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5604exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5605exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5606exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5607exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5608exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5609exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5610fattach NEW: STREAMS
5611fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5612fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5613fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5614fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5615feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5616fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5617fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5618fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5619feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5620feof_locked REMOVED
5621feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5622ferror_locked REMOVED
5623fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5624fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5625fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5626fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5627feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5628fflush_locked REMOVED
5629ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5630ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5631fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5632fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5633fileno_locked REMOVED
5634fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5635fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5636fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5637fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5638fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5639fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5640fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5641fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5642fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5643fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5644fopen64 NEW: LFS
5645fputc_locked REMOVED
5646fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5647fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5648freopen64 NEW: LFS
5649fseeko NEW: Unix98
5650fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5651fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5652fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5653fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5654ftello NEW: Unix98
5655ftello64 NEW: LFS
5656ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5657ftw64 NEW: LFS
5658fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5659gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5660gamma_r REMOVED
5661gammaf_r REMOVED
5662gammal_r REMOVED
5663getchar_locked REMOVED
5664getdate NEW: Unix98
5665getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5666getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5667getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5668getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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5671getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5672getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5673getutxent NEW: Unix98
5674getutxid NEW: Unix98
5675getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5676glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5677globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5678gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5679gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5680grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5681host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5682iconv NEW: iconv
5683iconv_close NEW: iconv
5684iconv_open NEW: iconv
5685if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5686if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5687if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5688if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5689in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5690in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5691inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5692isastream NEW: STREAMS
5693iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5694key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5695key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5696key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5697key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5698key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5699key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5700key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5701key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5702key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5703llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5704llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5705llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5706llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5707llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5708llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5709log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5710log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5711log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5712lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5713lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5714lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5715lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5716lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5717lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5718lseek64 NEW: LFS
5719makecontext NEW: Unix98
5720mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5721mmap64 NEW: LFS
5722moncontrol REMOVED
5723modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5724nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5725nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5726nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5727nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5728nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5729nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5731netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5732nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5733nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5734nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5735nftw NEW: Unix98
5736nftw64 NEW: LFS
5737open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5738passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5739pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5740pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5741pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5742pread NEW: Unix98
5743pread64 NEW: LFS
5744printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5745printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5746profil_counter REMOVED
5747pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5748pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5749ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5750ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5751putc_locked REMOVED
5752putchar_locked REMOVED
5753putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5754putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5755putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5756pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5757pwrite NEW: Unix98
5758pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5759readdir64 NEW: LFS
5760readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5761remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5762remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5763remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5764round NEW: ISO C 9x
5765roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5766roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5767rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5768scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5769scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5770scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5771scandir64 NEW: LFS
5772sendfile NEW: kernel
5773setcontext NEW: Unix98
5774setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5775setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5776sighold NEW: Unix98
5777sigignore NEW: Unix98
5778sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5779sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5780sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5781sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5782sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5783sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5784sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5785sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5786statfs64 NEW: LFS
5787statvfs NEW: Unix98
5788statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5789strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5790strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5791strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5792strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5793svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5794svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5795svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5796swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5797tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5798tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5799tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5800tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5801tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5802tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5803trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5804truncate64 NEW: LFS
5805truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5806truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5807umount2 NEW: kernel
5808unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5809updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5810user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5811utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5812versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5813versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5814waitid NEW: Unix98
5815wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5816wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5817wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5818wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5819wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5820wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5821wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5822wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5823wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5824wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5825write_profiling REMOVED
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5826xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5827xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5828xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5829xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5830xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5831xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5832xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5833xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5834xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5835xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5836xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5837xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5838xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5839xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 5840xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5841~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5843Version 2.0.6
5844
5845* more bug fixes
5846
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5848Version 2.0.5
5849
5850* more bug fixes
5851
5852* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5853
5854* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5855
5856* rewrite of cbrt function
5857
5858* update of timezone data
5859\f
5860Version 2.0.4
5861
5862* more bug fixes
5863\f
5864Version 2.0.3
5865
5866* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5867\f
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5868Version 2.0.2
5869
5870* more bug fixes
5871
5872* add atoll function
5873
5874* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5875
5876* fix math functions
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5878Version 2.0.1
5879
5880* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5881
5882* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5883
5884* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5885 the ELF dynamic loader.
5886
5887* support for parallel builds is improved
5888\f
40a4b79f 5889Version 2.0
28f540f4 5890
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5891* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5892 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5893 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5894
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5895* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5896 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5897 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5898 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5899 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5900 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5901 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5902 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5903 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5904 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5905 files in the ELF format.
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5906
5907* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5908 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5909
5910* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5911 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5912 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5913 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5914 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5915 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5916 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5917 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5918 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5919 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5920 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5922* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5923 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5924 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5925 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5926 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5927
f7eac6eb 5928* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5929 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5930 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5931 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5932 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5933
5934* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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5936* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5937 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5938 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5939 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5940 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5941 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5942 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5943 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5944 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5945
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5946* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5947 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5948 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5949
5950* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5951 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5952 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5953
5954* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5955 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5956 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5957 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5958
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5959* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5960 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5961 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5962
5963* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5964 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5965 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5966
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5967* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5968 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5969
f7eac6eb 5970* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5971 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5972 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5973 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5974
5975* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5976 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5977 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5978
71733723 5979* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5980 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5981 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5982 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5983 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5984 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5985 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5986 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5987
5988* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5989 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5990 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5991 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5992 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5993 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5994 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5995
5996* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5997 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5998 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5999 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6000 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6001 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6002
6003* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6004 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6005
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6006* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6007 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6008 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6010* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6011
6012* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6013 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6014 their use is discouraged.
6015
6016* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6017 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6019* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6020 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6021
6022* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6023 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6024
6025* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6026 see <dirent.h>.
6027
6028* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6029 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6030 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6031 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6032 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6033
6034* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6035 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6036 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6037 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6038
6039* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6040 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6041
6042* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6043 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6044 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6045 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6046 number generator.
6047
6048* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6049 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6050
6051* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6052 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6053
71733723 6054* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6055 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6056 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6057 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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6059* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6060
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6061* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6062 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6063 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6064
6065* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6066 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6068* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6069 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6070 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6071 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6072
6073* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6074 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6075 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6076 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6077 programs already written to use it.)
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6078
6079* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6080 constants.
6081
6082* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6083 with 4.4 BSD.
6084
6085* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6086 a given effective group ID.
6087
6088* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6089 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6090 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6091 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6092
6093* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6094 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6095 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6096 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6097 doing the same thing.
6098
6099* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6100 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6101
6102* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6103 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6104
6105* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6106
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6107* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6108 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6109 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6110 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6111 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6112
6113* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6114 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6115
6116* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6117 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6118 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6119 function.
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6120
6121* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6122
6123* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6124 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6125 strings.
6126
6127* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6128 and writing the utmp file.
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6129
6130* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6131 Thorsten Kukuk.
6132
6133* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6134 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6135 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6136
6137* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6138 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6139
6140* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6141 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6142 specification.
6143
6144* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6145 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6146 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6147 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6148
6149* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6150 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6151 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6152
6153* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6154 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6155 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6156 expression matcher.
6157
6158* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6159 functionality.
6160
6161* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6162 by Ulrich Drepper.
6163
6164* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6165
6166* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6167 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6168 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6170Version 1.09
6171
6172* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6173
6174* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6175 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6176
6177* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6178 want to put themselves in the background.
6179
6180* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6181 run without an operating system.
6182
6183* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6184 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6185
6186* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6187 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6188
6189* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6190
6191* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6192 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6193 have YP (aka NIS).
6194
6195* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6196 conventions.
6197
6198* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6199 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6200\f
6201Version 1.08
6202
6203* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6204 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6205 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6206
6207* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6208 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6209
6210* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6211 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6212
6213* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6214
6215* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6216
6217* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6218 compatibility.
6219
6220* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6221 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6222 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6223
6224* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6225
6226* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6227 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6228 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6229
6230* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6231 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6232 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6233 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6234 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6235 on a block).
6236
6237* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6238 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6239 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6240 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6241 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6242 cross-compiler.
6243
6244* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6245 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6246\f
6247Version 1.07
6248
6249* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6250 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6251
6252* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6253 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6254 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6255
6256* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6257 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6258 address of the last character written.
6259
6260* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6261 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6262
6263* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6264 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6265
6266* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6267 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6268 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6269 you dereference this pointer.
6270
6271* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6272 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6273
6274* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6275 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6276 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6277 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6278
6279* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6280 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6281 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6282 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6283\f
6284Version 1.06
6285
6286* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6287 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6288 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6289 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6290 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6291
6292* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6293
6294* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6295
6296* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6297 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6298
6299* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6300 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6301
6302* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6303 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6304
6305* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6306 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6307 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6308 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6309 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6310
6311* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6312 to the error code in `errno'.
6313
6314* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6315 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6316 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6317 malloc'd string.
6318
6319* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6320 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6321 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6322
6323* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6324 uniquely-named temporary file.
6325\f
6326Version 1.05
6327
6328* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6329 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6330 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6331
6332* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6333 characters.
6334
6335* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6336 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6337
6338* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6339\f
6340Version 1.04
6341
6342* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6343 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6344 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6345 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6346
6347* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6348 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6349 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6350
6351* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6352 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6353
6354* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6355 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6356 made itself into a shared library.
6357
6358* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6359 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6360
6361* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6362 with limited length.
6363
6364* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6365
6366* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6367
6368* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6369
6370* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6371 function for traversing a directory tree.
6372
6373* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6374 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6375 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6376 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6377
6378* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6379 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6380
6381* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6382
6383* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6384 things to your strings.
6385
6386* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6387
6388* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6389 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6390 supporting those systems.
6391
6392* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6393 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6394 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6395 configuration files.
6396
6397* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6398 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6399
6400* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6401 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6402 in <strings.h>.)
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6403
6404* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6405 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6406 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6407 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6408 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6409 required storage is not available.
6410
6411* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6412 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6413
6414* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6415 latest files released from Berkeley.
6416\f
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6419
6420 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6421 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6422 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6423 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6424
6425 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6426 of this document, or of portions of it,
6427 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6428 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6429\f
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