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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
d614a753 2Copyright (C) 1992-2020 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 2.33
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10Major new features:
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12* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
13 to change argv[0] string.
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15* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
16 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
17 larger than fit in an integer.
18
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21* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
22 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
23
24 - rv32imac ilp32
25 - rv32imafdc ilp32
26 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
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28 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
29 2.28.
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31Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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33* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
34 mallinfo2 instead.
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36* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
37 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
38 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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40* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
41 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
42 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
43 prlimit.
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45* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
46 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
47 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
48
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49Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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51* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
52 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
53 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
54 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
55 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
56 perform any adjustments.
57
58* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
59 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
60 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
61 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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63Security related changes:
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65 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
66 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
67 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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69 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
70 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
71
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72The following bugs are resolved with this release:
73
74 [The release manager will add the list generated by
75 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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78Version 2.32
79
80Major new features:
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82* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
83 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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84 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
85
86* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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88* Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
89 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
90 Three ABIs are supported:
91
92 - arc-linux-gnu
93 - arc-linux-gnuhf
94 - arceb-linux-gnu
95
96 The arc* ABI is little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
97 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
98
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99* The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
100 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
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102* powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
103 using the -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
104 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
105 this option.
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107* To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
108 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
109 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
110
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111* On Linux, functions the pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
112 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
113 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
114
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115* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
116 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
117 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
118 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
119 libpthread.
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121* The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
122 sigabbrev_np returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for SIGHUP)
123 while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number (e.g
124 "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
125 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
126 NULL for an invalid signal number.
127
128 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
129 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
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131* The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
132 strerroname_np returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL) while
133 strerrordesc_np returns string describing error number
134 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
135 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
136 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
137
138 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
139 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
140
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141* AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
142 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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143 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
144 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
145 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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146 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
147 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
148 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
149 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
150 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
151 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
152 BTI compatible.
153
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154Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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156* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
157 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
158 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
159 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
160 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
161 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
162 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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164* Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
165 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
166 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
167 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
168 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
169 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
170 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
171 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depended on libnsl
172 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
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174* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
175 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
176 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
177 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
178 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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180* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
181 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
182 was not declared in any header file.
183
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184* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
185 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
186 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
187 sigaction functions instead.
188
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189* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
190 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
191
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192* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
193 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
194 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
195 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
196 strsignal instead.
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198* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
199 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
200 have been removed from from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
201 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
202 strerror or strerror_r instead.
203
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204* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
205 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
206 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
207 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
208
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209* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
210 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
211 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
212 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
213 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
214 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
215 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
216
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217* The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
218 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
219 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
220 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
221 flavor of secure RPC.)
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223* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
224 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
225 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
226 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
227 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
228 object, to enable the hooks.
229
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230* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
231 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
232 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
233 LDAP.
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235Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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237* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
238 long double redirects.
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240Security related changes:
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242 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
243 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
244 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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246 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
247 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
248 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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250 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
251 expanding ~user has been fixed.
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253 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
254 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
255 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
256 TALOS-2020-1019).
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258The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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260 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
261 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
262 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
263 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
264 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
265 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
266 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
267 filtee has constructor
268 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
269 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
270 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
271 character entities for infinity & pi
272 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
273 segfaults in applications
274 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
275 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
276 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
277 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
278 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
279 function with -mlong-double-64
280 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
281 binding
282 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
283 ld.so.cache
284 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
285 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
286 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
287 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
288 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
289 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
290 linker
291 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
292 dynamically loaded dsos
293 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
294 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
295 access
296 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
297 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
298 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
299 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
300 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
301 stale configuration forever
302 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
303 (CVE-2020-10029)
304 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
305 defaults to PIE
306 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
307 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
308 (CVE-2020-6096)
309 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
310 on 32 bit and old kernel
311 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
312 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
313 Occitan
314 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
315 amount of sigset_t bytes
316 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
317 strings
318 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
319 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
320 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
321 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
322 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
323 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
324 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
325 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
326 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
327 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
328 size_t
329 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
330 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
331 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
332 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
333 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
334 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
335 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
336 cpu=power9
337 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
338 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
339 segfault
340 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
341 exiting detached thread
342 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
343 for x32
344 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
345 ERANGE
346 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
347 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
348 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
349 dependencies in audit mode
350 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
351 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
352 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
353 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
354 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
355 input
356 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
357 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
358 preserve r2
359 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
360 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
361 variables
362 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
363 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
364 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
365 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
366 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
367 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
368 corruption in memset
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371Version 2.31
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373Major new features:
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375* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
376 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
377 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
378 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
379 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
380 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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382* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
383 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
384 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
385 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
386
69ca4b54 387* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 388 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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389 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
390
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391* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
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393* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
394 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
395 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
396 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
397 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
398 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
399 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
400 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
401
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402Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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404* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
405 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
406 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
407 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
408 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
409 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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412 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
413 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
414
415* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
416 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
417 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
418 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
419
420* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
421 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
422 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
423 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
424 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
425 made this no longer practical.
426
427 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
428 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
429 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
430 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
431 release.)
432
433 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
434 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
435 with the current time, use the localtime function.
436
437 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
438 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
439 using clock_gettime instead.
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442 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
443 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
444 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
445 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
446
447 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
448 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
449 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
450 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
451
452 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
453 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
454 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
455 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
456 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
457 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
458
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459 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
460 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
461 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
462 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
463 offset API.
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466 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
467 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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469 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
470 configurations.
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472* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
473 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
474 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
475 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
476 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
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479 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
480 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
481 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
482 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
483 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
484 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
485 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
486
487 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
488 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
489
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490* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
491 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
492 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
493 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
494 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
495 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
496
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497Changes to build and runtime requirements:
498
a1bd5f86 499* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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500 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
501 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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503* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
504 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
505 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
506
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509 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
510 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
511
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512 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
513 environment variable during program execution after a security
514 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
515 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
516 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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518The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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520 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
521 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
522 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
523 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
524 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
525 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
526 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
527 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
528 linking failure
529 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
530 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
531 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
532 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
533 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
534 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
535 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
536 constructors/destructors is not fatal
537 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
538 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
539 7408-2005
540 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
541 with localedef
542 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
543 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
544 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
545 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
546 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
547 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
548 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
549 utmp entries
550 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
551 ABSOLUTE ABI
552 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
553 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
554 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
555 (stringop-overflow error)
556 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
557 functions other can lead to crashes
558 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
559 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
560 unconditionally
561 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
562 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
563 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
564 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
565 still can fail with an error
566 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
567 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
568 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
569 initialized correctly
570 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
571 -frewrite-includes
572 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
573 value to an unsigned
574 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
575 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
576 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
577 protection
578 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
579 ifunc variant.
580 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
581 al. for Clang++
582 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
583 (Slovenian)
584 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
585 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
586 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
587 with -std=c11
588 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
589 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
590 part
591 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
592 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
593 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
594 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
595 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
596 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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601Major new features:
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603* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
604 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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605 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
606
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607* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
608 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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611 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
612 to the callback function.
613
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617 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
618 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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622* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
623 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
624 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
625 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
626 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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628* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
629 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
630 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
631 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
632 link time reference, is gone.
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635 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
636 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
637 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
638 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
639 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
640 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
641 the clock choice at initialization time).
642
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644 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
645 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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648
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650 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
651 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
652 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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654 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
655 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
656 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
657 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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659* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
660 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
661 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
662 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
663 since glibc 2.17.
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665* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
666 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
667
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668* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
669 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
670
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671* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
672 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
673
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674* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
675 BIND_NOW flag.
676
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677* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
678 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
679 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
680
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681* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
682 header have been removed.
683
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684* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
685 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
686 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
687 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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690
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692
693 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
694 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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696Security related changes:
697
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698 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
699 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
700 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
701 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
702 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
703 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
704 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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706 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
707 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
708 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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712 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
713 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
714 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
715 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
716 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
717 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
718 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
719 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
720 invalid input drops valid char
721 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
722 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
723 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
724 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
725 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
726 malloc.h.
727 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
728 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
729 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
730 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
731 functions
732 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
733 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
734 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
735 for long double = double
736 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
737 long double = double
738 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
739 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
740 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
741 long timeouts
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743 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
744 checking for NULL.
745 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
746 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
747 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
748 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
749 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
750 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
751 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
752 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
753 not the default "nor"
754 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
755 false positives, change to modern flexible array
756 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
757 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
758 compiler barriers.
759 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
760 unnecessary librt dependencies
761 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
762 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
763 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
764 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
765 unsorted chunk
766 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
767 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
768 to R_SPARC_H44
769 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
770 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
771 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
772 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
773 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
774 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
775 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
776 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
777 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
778 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
779 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
780 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
781 was not used
782 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
783 tests
784 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
785 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
786 time_t changes
787 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
788 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
789 kernels and break testing
790 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
791 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
792 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
793 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
794 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
795 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
796 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
797 -O3 -march=skylake
798 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
799 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
800 crash
801 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
802 linked glibc
803 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
804 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
805 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
806 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
807 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
808 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
809 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
810 always implemented in the same library
811 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
812 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
813 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
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818
819Major new features:
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822 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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825 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
826 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
827 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
828 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
829 configured location.
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833* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
834 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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836* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
837 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
838 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
839 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
840 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
841 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
842 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
843 process actually does not use HTM).
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846 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
847 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
848 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
849 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
850 of the same name.
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853 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
854 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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857
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858* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
859 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
860 supported:
861 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
862 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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865 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
866 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
867 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
868 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
869 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
870 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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873 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
874 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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879 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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882 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
883 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
884 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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887 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
888 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
889 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
890 structures.
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893 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
894 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
895 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
896 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
897 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
898
899 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
900 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
901 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
902 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
903 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
904
905 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
906 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
907 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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910
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914 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
915
916 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
917 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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921 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
922 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
923 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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926 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
927 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
928 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
929 Reported by H.J. Lu.
930
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932 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
933 or command injection issues in applications.
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937 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
938 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
939 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
940 thousands
941 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
942 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
943 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
944 --param options)
945 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
946 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
947 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
948 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
949 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
950 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
951 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
952 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
953 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
954 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
955 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
956 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
957 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
958 pointer argument is non-NULL
959 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
960 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
961 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
962 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
963 multithreads call popen
964 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
965 and pthread_create fails.
966 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
967 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
968 constructor
969 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
970 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
971 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
972 source tree
973 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
974 float
975 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
976 one error
977 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
978 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
979 linker
980 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
981 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
982 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
983 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
984 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
985 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
986 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
987 filesystems
988 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
989 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
990 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
991 functions
992 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
993 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
994 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
995 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
996 have wrong type
997 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
998 wrong type
999 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1000 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1001 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1002 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1003 threads
1004 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1005 start.S
1006 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1007 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1008 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1009 powerpc64le
1010 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1011 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1012 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1013 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1014 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1015 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1016 strftime
1017 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1018 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1019 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1020 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1021 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1022 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1023 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1024 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1025 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1026 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1027 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1028 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1029 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1030 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1031 tcache size
1032 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1033 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1034 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1035 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1036 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1037 (CVE-2018-19591)
1038 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1039 nearest rounding mode
1040 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1041 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1042 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1043 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1044 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1045 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1046 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1047 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1048 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1049 error
1050 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1051 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1052 using GCC 8
1053 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1054 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1055 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1056 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1057 ppc64le
1058 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1059 expected result
1060 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1061 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1062 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1063 sigaltstack
1064 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1065 answers will be rejected)
1066 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1070
1071Major new features:
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1073* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1074 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1075 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1076 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1077 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1078 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1079 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1080 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1081 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1082 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1083 archive or binary locales.
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1085* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1086 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1087 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1088 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1089 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1090 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1091 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1092 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1093 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1094 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1095 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1096 validated for i686.
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1098* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1099 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1100 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1101 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1102 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1103 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1106 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1107 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1108
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1109* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1110 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1111
1112 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1113 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1115 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1116 fMxsubfNx functions.
1117
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1118 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1119 fMxmulfNx functions.
1120
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1121 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1122 fMxdivfNx functions.
1123
e607a352 1124* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1125 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1126 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1128 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 1129
61c4aad7 1130* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1131 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1133* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1134 patches.
1135
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1136* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1137 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1138 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1139 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1140 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1141 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1142 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1143 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1146 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1147 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1148 the fstatat64 function.
1149
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1150* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1151 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1152 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1153 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1154 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1155 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1156 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1157 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1158 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1161 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1162 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1163 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1164 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1165 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1166 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1167 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1168 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1169 results in a load failure now.
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1172 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1173 <threads.h>:
1174
1175 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1176 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1177
1178 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1179 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1180
1181 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1182
1183 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1184 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1185
1186 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1187
1188 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1192* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1193 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1194 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1195
1196* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1197 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1198 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1199 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1200 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1201 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1202
1203* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1204 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1205 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1206 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1207 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1208 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1209 (Bug #1190.)
1210
1211* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1212 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1213 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1214 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1215 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1216 further explanation.
1217
1218 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1219 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1220 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1222* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1224* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1225 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1226 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1227
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1228* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1229 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1230 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1231 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1233* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1234 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1235 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1236 for this function instead.
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1238* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1239 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1240 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1241
1242* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1243 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1244 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1245 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1247* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1248 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1249 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1250 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1251 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1252
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1253* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1254 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1255 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1256 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1257 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1258 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1259 such as libgcrypt.
1260
1261* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1262 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1263 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1264 enabled.
1265
1266* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1267 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1268 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1269
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1270* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1271 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1272 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1273 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1274 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1275 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1276
1277 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1278 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1279 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1280 behavior in a future release.
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1283
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1286Security related changes:
1287
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1288 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1289 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1290 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1291 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1293 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1294 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1295
1296 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1297 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1298 Izbyshev.
1299
1300 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1301 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1302 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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1306 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1307 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1308 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1309 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1310 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1311 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1312 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1313 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1314 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1315 14651
1316 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1317 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1318 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1319 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1320 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1321 conversion is given
1322 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1323 date
1324 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1325 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1326 scope with -O1 and higher
1327 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1328 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1329 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1330 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1331 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1332 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1333 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1334 horrible machine code)
1335 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1336 last constant.
1337 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1338 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1339 symbols
1340 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1341 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1342 defined
1343 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1344 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1345 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1346 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1347 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1348 fpscr.c'
1349 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1350 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1351 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1352 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1353 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1354 the base address
1355 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1356 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1357 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1358 open_verify
1359 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1360 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1361 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1362 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1363 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1364 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1365 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1366 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1367 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1368 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1369 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1370 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1371 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1372 dlopen
1373 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1374 AT_SECURE=1
1375 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1376 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1377 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1378 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1379 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1380 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1381 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1382 for Spanish with CLDR
1383 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1384 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1385 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1386 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1387 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1388 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1389 es_BO
1390 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1391 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1392 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1393 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1394 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1395 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1396 dlopen failures
1397 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1398 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1399 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1400 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1401 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1402 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1403 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1404 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1405 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1406 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1407 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1408 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1409 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1410 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1411 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1412 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1413 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1414 makecontext
1415 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1416 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1417 required
1418 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1419 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1420 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1421 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1422 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1423 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1424 disabled
1425 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1426 failure
1427 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1428 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1429 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1430 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1431 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1432 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1433 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1434 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1435 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1436 and libc build with -Os)
1437 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1438 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1439 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1440 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1441 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1442 that changes /etc/passwd
1443 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1444 (CVE-2018-11237)
1445 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1446 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1447 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1448 posix/regcomp.c
1449 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1450 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1451 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1452 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1453 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1454 AT_SECURE
1455 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1456 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1457 parser.c
1458 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1459 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1460 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1461 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1462 directed rounding
1463 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1464 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1465 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1466 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1467 lookup
1468 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1469 interposition
1470 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1471 DSO boundaries.
1472 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1473 <linux/time.h>
1474 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1475 checking
1476 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1477 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1478 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1479 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1480 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1481 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1482 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1483 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1484 processors
1485 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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1488Version 2.27
1489
1490Major new features:
1491
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1492* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1493 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 1494 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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1495 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1496 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1497 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1498 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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1499 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1500 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 1501
ac817e08 1502* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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1503 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1504 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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1506* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1507
4cf82d23 1508* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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1510* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1511 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1512 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1513 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1514 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1515 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1516 from a security and performance perspective.
1517
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1518* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1519 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1520 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1521 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1522
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1524 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1525 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1526 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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1527 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1528
a23aa5b7 1529* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 1530 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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1531 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1532 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1533 _Float128.
1534
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1535* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1536 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1537 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 1538
4bab0224 1539* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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1541* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1542 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1543 pkey_get.
1544
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1545* The copy_file_range function was added.
1546
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1547* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1548
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1549* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1550 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1551 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1552
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1553* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1554 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1555 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1556 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1557 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1558 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1559 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1560
1561 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1562 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1563 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1564 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1565 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1566 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1567 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1568
1569 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1570 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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1571 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1572 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1573 respectively.
1574
1575 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1576 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1577 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1578 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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1579
1580 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1581 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1582 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1583
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1584 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1585 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 1586 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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1588* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1589 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1590 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1591
1592 - rv64imac lp64
1593 - rv64imafdc lp64
1594 - rv64imafdc lp64d
1595
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1596Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1597
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1598* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1599 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 1600 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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1601 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1602 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1603 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1604 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1605 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1606 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1607 fix this.
1608
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1609* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1610 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1611 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1612
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1613* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1614 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1615 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1616 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1617 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1618 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1619 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1620 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1621 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1622 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1623 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1624 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1625 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1626 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1627 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1628 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1629 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1630 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1631 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1632 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1633 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1634 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1635 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1636 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1637 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1638 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1639
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1641 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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1643* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1644 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1645 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1646 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1647 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1648 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1649 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1650
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1651* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1652 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1653 exp10l for these functions instead.
1654
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1655* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1656 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1657 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1658
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1659* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1660 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1661 ignored.
1662
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1663* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1664 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1665 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1666 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1667
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1668* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1669 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1670
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1671* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1672 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1673
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1674* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1675 programs.
1676
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1677* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1678
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1679* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1680 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1681 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1682 instead.
1683
1684 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1685 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1686 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1687 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1688 use, but predates the bits convention.
1689
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1691
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1692* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1693 subdirectory.
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1695Security related changes:
1696
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1697 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1698 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1699 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1700 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1701 script.)
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1703 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1704 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1705 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1706 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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1708 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1709 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1710 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1711 of service.
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1713 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1714 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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1715 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1716
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1717 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1718 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1719 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1720 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1721
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1722 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1723 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1724 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1725 Qualys.
1726
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1727 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1728 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1729 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1730 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1731 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1732
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1733 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1734 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1735 current directory.
1736
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1737 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1738 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1739 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1740
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1741 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1742 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1743 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1744
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1745 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1746 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1747 small, instead of NULL.
1748
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1750
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1751 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1752 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1753 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1754 locale
1755 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1756 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1757 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1758 cases
1759 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1760 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1761 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1762 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1763 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1764 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1765 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1766 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1767 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1768 "Bangla"
1769 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1770 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1771 width Latin characters
1772 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1773 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1774 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1775 letters
1776 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1777 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
1778 (CVE-2009-5064)
1779 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
1780 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
1781 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
1782 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
1783 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
1784 if malloc succeeded
1785 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
1786 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
1787 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
1788 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
1789 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
1790 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
1791 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
1792 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
1793 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
1794 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
1795 U+309A
1796 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
1797 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
1798 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
1799 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
1800 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
1801 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
1802 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
1803 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
1804 for Nicaragua
1805 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
1806 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
1807 are not found.
1808 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
1809 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
1810 access
1811 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
1812 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
1813 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
1814 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
1815 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
1816 __regcall calling convention
1817 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
1818 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
1819 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
1820 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
1821 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
1822 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
1823 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
1824 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
1825 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
1826 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
1827 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
1828 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
1829 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1830 locale
1831 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
1832 protector=all
1833 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
1834 wcwidth
1835 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
1836 consistency check failures
1837 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
1838 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
1839 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
1840 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
1841 PIE
1842 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
1843 locales
1844 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
1845 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
1846 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
1847 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
1848 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
1849 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
1850 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
1851 on memory allocation failure
1852 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
1853 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
1854 the suspect)
1855 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
1856 default (i386)
1857 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
1858 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
1859 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
1860 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
1861 instead of EAI_NODATA
1862 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
1863 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
1864 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
1865 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
1866 implementation
1867 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
1868 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
1869 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
1870 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
1871 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
1872 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
1873 allocation in syscall loops)
1874 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
1875 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
1876 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
1877 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
1878 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
1879 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
1880 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
1881 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
1882 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
1883 occur with -O3
1884 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
1885 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1886 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
1887 amounts)
1888 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
1889 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
1890 niu_NZ
1891 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
1892 checks
1893 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
1894 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
1895 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
1896 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
1897 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
1898 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
1899 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
1900 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
1901 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
1902 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
1903 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
1904 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
1905 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
1906 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
1907 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
1908 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
1909 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
1910 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
1911 parsing after OOM
1912 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
1913 object
1914 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
1915 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
1916 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
1917 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
1918 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
1919 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 1920 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
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1921 ppc64le
1922 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
1923 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
1924 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
1925 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
1926 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
1927 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
1928 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
1929 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
1930 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
1931 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
1932 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
1933 math_force_eval
1934 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
1935 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
1936 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
1937 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
1938 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
1939 the svid compat wrapper
1940 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
1941 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
1942 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
1943 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
1944 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
1945 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
1946 --verbose.
1947 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
1948 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
1949 to 2.26
1950 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
1951 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
1952 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
1953 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
1954 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
1955 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
1956 (CVE-2017-15804)
1957 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1958 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
1959 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
1960 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
1961 failure."
1962 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
1963 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
1964 -m32
1965 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
1966 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
1967 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
1968 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
1969 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
1970 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
1971 inside the ASCII printable range
1972 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
1973 -mlong-double-64
1974 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
1975 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
1976 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
1977 Internet
1978 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
1979 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
1980 backslash
1981 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
1982 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
1983 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
1984 heaps in an arena
1985 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
1986 networking interface
1987 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
1988 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
1989 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
1990 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
1991 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
1992 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
1993 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
1994 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
1995 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
1996 order
1997 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1998 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1999 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2000 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2001 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2002 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2003 same as for Croatian
2004 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2005 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2006 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2007 for initial thread"
2008 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2009 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2010 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2011 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2012 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2013 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2014 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2015 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2016 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2017 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2018 modified in case of success
2019 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2020 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2021 success
2022 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2023 stack-protector=all
2024 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2025 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2026 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2027 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2028 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2029 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2030 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2031 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2032 adding it on top
2033 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2034 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2035 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2036 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2037 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2038 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2039 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2040 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2041 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2042 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2043 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2044 elision and tunables
2045 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2046 "invalid" exception
2047 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2048 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2049 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2050 exception
2051 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2052 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2053 power4
2054 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2055 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2056 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2057 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2058 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2059 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2060 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2061 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2062 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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2065Version 2.26
2066
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2067Major new features:
2068
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2069* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2070 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2071 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2072 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2073 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2074 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2075 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2076
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2077* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2078 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2079 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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2080 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2081 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2082 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2083 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 2084
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2085* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2086 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2087 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2088
2b2ccd0c 2089* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2090
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2091 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2092 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2093 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2094
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2095 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2096 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2097 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2098 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2099 object are still limited to six search domains.
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2101 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2102 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2103 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2104
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2105* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2106 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2107
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2108* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2109 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2110 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2111 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 2112
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2113* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2114 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2115 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2116 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2117
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2118* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2119 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2120 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2121 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2123* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2124 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2125 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2126
2b2ccd0c 2127* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2128 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2129 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2130 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2131
2b2ccd0c 2132 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2133 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2134 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2135 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2136 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2137
2138 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2139 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2140 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2141 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2142 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2143 interfaces should be used instead.
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2145Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2146
2147* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2148 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2149 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2150 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2151 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2152 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2153 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2154 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2155
2156* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2157 removed.
2158
2159* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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2161 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2162 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2163
2164* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2165 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2166 default.
2167
2168 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2169 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2170 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2171 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2172 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2174 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2175 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2176 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2177 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2178
2179* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2180 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2181 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2182 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2183
2184* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2185 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2186
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2187* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2188 exported by accident.
2189
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2190* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2191 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2192 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2193
2194* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2195 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2196 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2197 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2198
2199* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2200
2201* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2202
2203* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2204 free instead.
2205
2206* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2207 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2208
2209* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2210 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2211
2212* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2213 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2214 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2215 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2216 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2217 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2218 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2219 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2220
2221* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2222 synced with the kernel:
2223
2224 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2225 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2226
2227 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2228 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2229 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2230
2231 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2232 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2233
2234Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2235
2236* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2237 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2238 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2239
7e368000 2240* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2242* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2243 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2245 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2247 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2248 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2249 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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2251Security related changes:
2252
e14a2772 2253* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2254 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2255
2256* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2257 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2258
2259* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2260 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2261 (CVE-2010-3192).
2262
2263* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2264 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2266The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2267
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2268 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2269 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2270 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2271 fields
2272 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2273 (CVE-2010-3192)
2274 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2275 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2276 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2277 ld.bfd is available
2278 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2279 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2280 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2281 x86 and other generic code
2282 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2283 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2284 incorrect
2285 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2286 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2287 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2288 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2289 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2290 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2291 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2292 resolver
2293 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2294 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2295 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2296 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2297 chillu characters
2298 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2299 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2300 receiving data
2301 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2302 whitespace
2303 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2304 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2305 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2306 for Peru
2307 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2308 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2309 failures consistently
2310 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2311 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2312 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2313 frame-pointer on i386
2314 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2315 register
2316 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2317 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2318 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2319 generic c code is used
2320 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2321 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2322 around 4000
2323 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2324 (CVE-2017-12133)
2325 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2326 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2327 with -lieee
2328 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2329 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2330 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2331 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2332 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2333 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2334 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2335 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2336 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2337 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2338 remove()
2339 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2340 checked for errors.
2341 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2342 new posix_spawn implementation
2343 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2344 leads to lower CPU frequency
2345 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2346 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2347 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2348 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2349 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2350 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2351 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2352 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2353 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2354 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2355 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2356 not support gethostbyname4_r
2357 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2358 switching
2359 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2360 arenas
2361 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2362 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2363 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2364 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2365 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2366 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2367 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2368 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2369 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2370 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2371 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2372 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2373 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2374 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2375 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2376 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2377 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2378 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2379 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2380 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2381 retry value
2382 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2383 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2384 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2385 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2386 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2387 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2388 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2389 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2390 [21537] libc:
2391 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2392 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2393 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2394 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2395 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2396 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2397 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2398 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2399 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2400 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2401 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2402 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2403 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2404 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2405 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2406 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2407 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2408 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2409 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2410 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2411 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2412 issue on x86-64
2413 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2414 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2415 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2416 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2417 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2418 construction
2419 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2420 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2421 between_2_3
2422 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2423 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2424 conditions
2425 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2426 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2427 Hindi Locale
2428 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2429 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2430 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2431 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2432 locale
2433 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2434 leading to relocation crash
2435 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2436 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2437 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2438 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2439 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2440 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2441 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2442 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2443 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2444 locale
2445 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2446 locale
2447 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2448 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2449 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2450 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2451 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2452 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2453 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2454 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2455 strings
2456 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2457 protector=all
2458 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2459 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
2460 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2461 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2462 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2463 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2464 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2465 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2466 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2467 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2468 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2469 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2470 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2471 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2472 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2473 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2474 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2475 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2476 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2477 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2478 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2479 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2480 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2481 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2482 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2483 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2484 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2485 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2486 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2487 with unicode 9.0
2488 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2489 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2490 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2491 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2492 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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2495Version 2.25
2496
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2497* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2498 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2499 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2500 Library.
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2502* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2503 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 2504 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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2505 the GNU C Library.
2506
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2507* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2508 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2509 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2510 the GNU C Library.
2511
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2512* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2513 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2514 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2515 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2516 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2517 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2518 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2519 will not.
2520
2521 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2522 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2523 many years.
2524
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2525* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2526 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2527 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2528
2529 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2530 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2531 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2532 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2533 problem.
2534
ec94343f 2535* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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2536 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2537 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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2539* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2540 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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2541 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2542 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2543 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2544 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2545 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2546 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2547 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2548 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2549 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2550 WINT_WIDTH.
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2552* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2553
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2554 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2555
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2556 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2557 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2558 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 2559
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2560 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2561 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2562
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2563 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2564 fminmagf, fminmagl.
2565
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2566 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2567
29cb9293 2568 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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2570 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2571 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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2573 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2574
eb3c12c7 2575 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 2576 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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2578* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2579 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2580
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2581* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2582 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2583 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2584
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2585* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2586 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2587 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2588 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2589 effects of the memory clear).
2590
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2591* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2592 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2593 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2594 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2595
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2596* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2597 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2598 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2599 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2600 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2601 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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2603* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2604 have been added.
2605
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2606* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2607 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2608 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2609 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2610 as large as several megabytes.
2611
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2612* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2613 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2614 been removed.
2615
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2616* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2617 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2618 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2619 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2620 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2621 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2622 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2623
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2624* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2625 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2626 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2627 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2628
099191b1 2629* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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2630 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2631 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2632 Internet.
2633
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2634* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2635 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2636 They were already unimplemented.
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2638* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2639 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2640 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2641 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2642
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2643* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2644 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2645 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2646 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2647 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2648
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2649* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2650 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2651 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2652 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2653 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2654
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2655* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2656 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2657 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2658 did not reflect that.
2659
022dfdce
SL
2660* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2661 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2662 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2663 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2664 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2665 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2666 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2667 'gcc/config.gcc'.
2668
23b5cae1
MG
2669* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2670 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2671 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2672 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2673
7715d3ab
SP
2674* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2675 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2676 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2677 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2678
0cea3587
SP
2679* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2680 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2681 guarantees.
2682
2683* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2684 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2685 make state changes.
2686
e720d3d9
CD
2687Security related changes:
2688
fc82b0a2 2689* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
2690 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2691 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2692 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 2693 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 2694
fc82b0a2
FW
2695* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2696 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2697 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2698 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2699 (CVE-2015-5180)
2700
e720d3d9
CD
2701The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2702
fdb724f9 2703 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
2704 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2705 protector-all
2706 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2707 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2708 before it started waiting
2709 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2710 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2711 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2712 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2713 wrong type
2714 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2715 library linked with pthread
2716 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2717 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2718 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2719 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2720 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2721 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2722 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2723 when it shouldnt
2724 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2725 not
2726 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2727 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2728 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2729 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2730 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2731 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2732 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2733 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2734 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2735 termination
2736 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2737 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2738 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2739 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2740 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2741 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2742 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2743 causes a segmentation fault
2744 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2745 linking
2746 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2747 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2748 uninitialized GOT
2749 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2750 versions
2751 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2752 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2753 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2754 is always true.
2755 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2756 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2757 modes
2758 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2759 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2760 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2761 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2762 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2763 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2764 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2765 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2766 libpthread.a
2767 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2768 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2769 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2770 _res_hconf
2771 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2772 information.
2773 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2774 penalty
2775 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2776 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2777 cause transition penalty
2778 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
2779 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
2780 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
2781 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
2782 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
2783 mcount.oS)
2784 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
2785 Checking
2786 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
2787 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
2788 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
2789 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
2790 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
2791 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
2792 multi-arch
2793 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
2794 (RES_USEBSTRING)
2795 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
2796 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
2797 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
2798 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
2799 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
2800 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
2801 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
2802 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
2803 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
2804 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
2805 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
2806 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
2807 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
2808 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
2809 glibc
2810 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
2811 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
2812 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
2813 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
2814 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
2815 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
2816 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
2817 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
2818 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
2819 U+20AC), not same as GBK
2820 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
2821 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
2822 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
2823 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
2824 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
2825 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
2826 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
2827 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
2828 RES_USE_INET6
2829 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2830 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
2831 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
2832 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
2833 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
2834 wrong condition
2835 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2836 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
2837 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
2838 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
2839 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
2840 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
2841 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
2842 clang
2843 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
2844 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
2845 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
2846 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
2847 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 2848\f
11fca961
AZ
2849Version 2.24
2850
5b4ecd3f
JM
2851* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2852 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
2853 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
2854 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
2855 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
2856 architectures.
2857
b6ebba70
MF
2858* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
2859 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
2860 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 2861
7584a3f9
FW
2862* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
2863 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
2864
b49ab5f4
FW
2865* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
2866 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
2867 instead of “union wait”.
2868
ced8f893
SG
2869* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
2870 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
2871 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
2872 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
2873 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
2874 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
2875 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
2876
2ba3cfa1
FW
2877* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
2878 API.
2879
b7a9b7b0
MF
2880* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
2881 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
2882 drop it.
6a54bcda 2883
41a359e2
RS
2884* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
2885 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
2886 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
2887 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
2888 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
2889 extensions.
2890
11fca961
AZ
2891Security related changes:
2892
f5b3338d
FW
2893* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
2894 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
2895 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
2896
4ab2ab03
FW
2897* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
2898 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
2899 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
2900 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 2901
5171f307
FW
2902* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
2903 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
2904 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
2905
bc779a1a
FW
2906* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
2907 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
2908 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
2909
fab38231
FW
2910* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
2911 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
2912 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
2913 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
2914
11fca961
AZ
2915The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2916
3c4f81ec
CD
2917 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
2918 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
2919 of MS-DOS.
2920 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
2921 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
2922 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
2923 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
2924 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
2925 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
2926 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
2927 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
2928 CLDR data
2929 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
2930 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
2931 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
2932 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
2933 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
2934 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
2935 romanisation
2936 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
2937 and +/-
2938 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
2939 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
2940 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
2941 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
2942 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
2943 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
2944 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
2945 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
2946 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
2947 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
2948 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
2949 all locales
2950 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
2951 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
2952 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
2953 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
2954 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
2955 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
2956 execute
2957 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
2958 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
2959 -Wsystem-headers
2960 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
2961 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
2962 Romanian locale data
2963 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
2964 symbol
2965 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
2966 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
2967 language
2968 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
2969 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
2970 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
2971 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
2972 machine
2973 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
2974 description
2975 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
2976 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
2977 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
2978 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
2979 when using RTLD_NEXT
2980 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
2981 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
2982 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
2983 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
2984 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
2985 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
2986 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
2987 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
2988 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
2989 Excavator core
2990 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2991 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2992 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2993 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
2994 double range
2995 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
2996 part zero incorrect
2997 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
2998 equality tests
2999 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3000 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3001 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3002 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3003 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3004 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3005 glibc-2.22
3006 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3007 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3008 'tst-numeric.c'
3009 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3010 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3011 low part
3012 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3013 result
3014 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3015 unaligned stack
3016 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3017 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3018 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3019 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3020 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3021 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3022 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3023 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3024 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3025 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3026 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3027 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3028 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3029 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3030 modes
3031 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3032 server addresses
3033 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3034 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3035 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3036 response to getaddrinfo
3037 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3038 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3039 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3040 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3041 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3042 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3043 sometimes incorrect
3044 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3045 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3046 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3047 record types
3048 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3049 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3050 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3051 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3052 (CVE-2016-3075)
3053 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3054 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3055 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3056 resolving symbols
3057 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3058 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3059 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3060 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3061 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3062 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3063 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3064 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3065 gethosts
3066 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3067 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3068 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3069 (CVE-2016-3706)
3070 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3071 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3072 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3073 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3074 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3075 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3076 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3077 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3078 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3079 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3080 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3081 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3082 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3083 executable
3084 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3085 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3086 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3087 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3088 XPG3
3089 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3090 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3091 (CVE-2016-4429)
3092 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3093 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3094 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3095 AS not supporting AVX512
3096 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3097 sNaN argument
3098 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3099 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3100 argument
3101 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3102 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3103 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3104 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3105 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3106 eax=0x80000001
3107 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3108 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3109 subnormals
3110 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3111 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3112 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3113 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3114 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3115 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3116 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3117 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3118 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3119 input
3120 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3121 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3122 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3123 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3124 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3125 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3126 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3127 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3128 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3129 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3130 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3131 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3132 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3133 double rounding
3134 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3135 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3136 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3137 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3138 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3139 (Only arm/linux)
3140 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3141 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3142 fallbacks
3143 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3144 "invalid" exceptions
3145 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3146 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3147 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3148 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3149 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3150 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3151 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3152 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3153 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3154\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3155Version 2.23
3156
23256f5e
MF
3157* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3158 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3159 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3160 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3161 89, 16061, and 18568.
3162
2359035a
FW
3163* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3164 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3165 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3166 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3167 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3168 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3169 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3170
8b7b7f75
MW
3171* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3172 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3173 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3174
2eecc8af
FW
3175* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3176 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3177 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3178 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3179 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3180 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3181 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3182
a62719ba
FW
3183* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3184 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3185 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3186 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3187 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3188 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3189 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3190 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3191
bc148ca1
MF
3192* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3193 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3194 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3195 independent of the GNU C Library.
3196
1c70b6f1
ZW
3197* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3198 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3199
eed3e1eb
JM
3200* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3201 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3202 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3203 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3204 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3205 Linux kernel.
3206
1efad39b
SL
3207* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3208 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3209
d709042a
JM
3210* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3211 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3212 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3213 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3214 defining their own copy.
3215
b08b4218
JM
3216* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3217 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3218 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3219
8f5e8b01
JM
3220Security related changes:
3221
6400ae6e
FW
3222* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3223 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3224
3225* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3226 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3227 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3228 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3229 (CVE-2015-8777)
3230
3231* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3232 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3233
3234* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3235 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3236
8f5e8b01
JM
3237* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3238 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3239 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3240
e9db92d3
CD
3241* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3242 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3243 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3244 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3245 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3246 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3247 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3248 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3249 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3250 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3251 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3252 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3253 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3254
ad372e29 3255The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3256
ad372e29
AZ
3257 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3258 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3259 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3260 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3261 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3262 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3263 use `mkstemp'
3264 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3265 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3266 overflow/underflow errors
3267 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3268 overflow/underflow
3269 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3270 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3271 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3272 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3273 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3274 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3275 are not contiguous
3276 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3277 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3278 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3279 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3280 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3281 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3282 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3283 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3284 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3285 all exceptions
3286 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3287 arguments
3288 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3289 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3290 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3291 should include
3292 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3293 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3294 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3295 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3296 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3297 GNU/Linux
3298 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3299 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3300 arguments
3301 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3302 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3303 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3304 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3305 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3306 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3307 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3308 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3309 rounding results
3310 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3311 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3312 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3313 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3314 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3315 fails
3316 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3317 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3318 block boundary
3319 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3320 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3321 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3322 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3323 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3324 4.7?
3325 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3326 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3327 (related to lock elision)
3328 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3329 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3330 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3331 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3332 (CVE-2015-8779)
3333 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3334 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3335 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3336 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3337 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3338 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3339 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3340 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3341 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3342 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3343 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3344 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3345 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3346 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3347 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3348 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3349 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3350 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3351 contains a vector instruction exception.
3352 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3353 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3354 locales
3355 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3356 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3357 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3358 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3359 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3360 missing break ?
3361 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3362 32bit processes
3363 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3364 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3365 infinity
3366 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3367 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3368 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3369 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3370 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3371 be forced unloaded
3372 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3373 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3374 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3375 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3376 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3377 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3378 statically too large
3379 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3380 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3381 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3382 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3383 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3384 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3385 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3386 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3387 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3388 FUTEX_SHARED
3389 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3390 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3391 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3392 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3393 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3394 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3395 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3396 opendir()
3397 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3398 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3399 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3400 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3401 signgam
3402 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3403 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3404 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3405 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3406 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3407 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3408 dependencies
3409 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3410 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3411 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3412 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3413 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3414 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3415 (CVE-2015-8776)
3416 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3417 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3418 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3419 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3420 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3421 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3422 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3423 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3424 contention
3425 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3426 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3427 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3428 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3429 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3430 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3431 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3432 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3433 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3434 rounding modes
3435 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3436 ILP32
3437 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3438 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3439 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3440 threshold
3441 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3442 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3443 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3444 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3445 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3446 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3447 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3448 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3449 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3450 pthread_setaffinity_np
3451 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3452 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3453 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3454 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3455 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3456 prelink
3457 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3458 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3459 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3460 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3461 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3462 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3463 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3464 bits/mathcalls.h
3465 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3466 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3467 for C99-based standards
3468 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3469 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3470 math-only
3471 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3472 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3473 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3474 disabled
3475 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3476 "inexact" exceptions
3477 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3478 arguments
3479 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3480 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3481 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3482 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3483 rules
3484 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3485 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3486 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3487 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3488 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3489 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3490 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3491 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3492 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3493 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3494 from 32bit
3495 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3496 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3497 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3498 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3499 subnormals
3500 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3501 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3502 error on 32-bit architectures
3503 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3504 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3505 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3506 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3507 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3508 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3509 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3510 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3511 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3512 -Os
3513 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3514 CPU's.
3515 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3516 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3517 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3518 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3519 architectures
3520 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
aeb47bbc 3521\f
1c7a4a51
JM
3522Version 2.22
3523
3524* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3525
3df5cd98 3526 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
3527 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3528 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3529 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3530 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3531 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3532 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3533 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3534 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3535 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3536 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3537 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3538 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3539 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3540 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3541 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3542 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3543 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
3544 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3545 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 3546
f7fba805
SL
3547* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3548 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3549
2959eda9
AS
3550* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3551 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3552 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3553 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3554 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3555 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 3556
42261ad7
FW
3557* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3558 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3559 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3560 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3561 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3562
afcd9480
AM
3563* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3564 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3565 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3566
4a4839c9
AO
3567* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3568 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3569 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3570 17998.
3571
b13b96ca
AS
3572* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3573 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3574 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
3575
3576* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
3577 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3578 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
3579 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3580 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
3581 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3582 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 3583 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
3584
3585* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3586 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3587 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3588 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
3589
3590* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3591 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3592 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
3593
3594* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3595 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
3596
3597* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3598 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3599 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3600
a03ba363 3601 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
3602 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3603 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 3604\f
58b930ae
SP
3605Version 2.21
3606
3607* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3608
042e1521 3609 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
3610 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3611 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3612 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3613 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3614 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3615 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3616 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3617 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3618 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3619 17892.
3620
46d54873
FW
3621* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3622 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3623 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3624 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3625 intended.
042e1521
CD
3626
3627* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3628 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3629 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3630 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3631 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3632 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 3633
522e6ee3
CLT
3634* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3635
d3b00f46
AZ
3636* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3637 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 3638 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 3639
8d2c0a59
AZ
3640* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3641 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3642 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3643 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3644 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3645 effects being visible outside transactions.
3646
dc400d7b
RE
3647* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3648 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 3649
0f9dfe04
L
3650* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3651
a39208bd
CD
3652* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3653 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 3654 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
3655 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3656 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 3657
a5357b7c
JL
3658* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3659 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3660
e54db0ea
AM
3661* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3662 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3663 format.
11e3417a 3664
4863355a
JM
3665* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3666 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3667 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3668
a4ecc9eb
JM
3669* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3670 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3671
0d560bbf 3672* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
3673
3674* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3675 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3676 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3677 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
3678
3679* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3680 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
3681
3682* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3683 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3684 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3685 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3686 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3687 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3688 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3689 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3690 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3691 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3692 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3693 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3694 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3695
3696 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3697 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3698 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3699 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3700 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 3701\f
d5b396c1
AM
3702Version 2.20
3703
3704* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3705
6a9350c8
JM
3706 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3707 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3708 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3709 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3710 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3711 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3712 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3713 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3714 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3715 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3716 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3717 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3718 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3719 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3720 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 3721
95ee7fb1
SL
3722* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3723 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3724 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3725 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3726 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 3727 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
3728 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3729 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3730 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3731 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3732
0961f7e1
JL
3733* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3734 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3735 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3736 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3737 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 3738
f940b965
RE
3739* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3740
d0f5b3f8
JM
3741* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3742 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3743
d6fe5e58
JM
3744* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3745 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3746 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3747 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3748 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3749 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3750
464263cc
JM
3751* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3752 from ports.
c941736c
JM
3753
3754* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3755 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3756 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3757 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3758 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3759 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3760 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
3761
3762* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
3763
3764* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3765 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3766 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3767 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3768 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3769 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3770 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
3771
3772* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3773 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3774 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3775 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3776 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
3777
3778* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
3779 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
3780 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
3781
3782* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
3783 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
3784 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
3785 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
3786
3787* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
3788 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
3789 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
3790 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
3791 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
3792 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
3793 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
3794 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
3795
3796* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
3797 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
3798 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
3799 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
3800 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
3801 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
3802 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
3803 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
3804 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
3805
3806* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
3807 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
3808 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
3809 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
3810 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 3811 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
3812
3813* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
3814 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
3815 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
3816 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
3817\f
3818Version 2.19
3819
3820* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3821
fd2f9486
JM
3822 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
3823 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
3824 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
3825 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
3826 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
3827 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
3828 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
3829 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
3830 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
3831 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
3832 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
3833 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
3834 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
3835 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
3836 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
3837 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
3838 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
3839 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 3840
11520a57
CD
3841* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
3842 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
3843
2fe16229
CD
3844* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
3845 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
3846 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
3847 extension which uses __block.
3848
303e567a
SP
3849* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
3850 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
3851 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
3852 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
3853 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
3854
141f3a77
SP
3855* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
3856 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
3857 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
3858 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
3859 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
3860
3861* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
3862 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
3863 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
3864 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
3865 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
3866
3867* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
3868 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
3869 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
3870
ba0d798c
WN
3871* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
3872 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
3873 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
3874 #15856, #15857).
3875
7cbcdb36
SP
3876* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
3877 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
3878
82bab04b 3879* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 3880 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 3881
c5f840fd
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3882* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
3883
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3884* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
3885 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 3886
3e181dda 3887* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 3888
8a05c252
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3889* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
3890
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3891* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
3892 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
3893 for which the C library was built.
3894
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3895* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
3896 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
3897 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
3898 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
3899 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
3900 in the following circumstances:
3901
3902 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
3903
3904 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
3905 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
3906
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3907* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
3908 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
3909
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3910* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
3911 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 3912
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AO
3913* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
3914
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SP
3915* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
3916 transcendental functions have been introduced.
3917
8b7d57cd 3918* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
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3919
3920* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 3921
fd712ef3 3922* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 3923
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3924* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
3925 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
3926 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
3927 disable some of those declarations.
3928
7011c262 3929* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
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JM
3930 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
3931 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
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3932
3933* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
3934 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
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3935
3936* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3937 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
3938 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
3939 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
3940 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
3941 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
3942 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
3943 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
3944 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
3945 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
3946 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
3947 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
3948 require recompilation.
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3950Version 2.18
3951
3952* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3953
17db6e8d 3954 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
3955 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
3956 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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3957 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
3958 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
3959 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
3960 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
3961 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
3962 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
3963 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
3964 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
3965 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
3966 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
3967 15755, 15759.
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3969* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
3970 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
3971 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
3972 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
3973 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
3974 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 3975
5b535ac4
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3976* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
3977 #15078).
3978
1cef1b19
AS
3979* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
3980 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 3981
55e4107b
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3982* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
3983 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
3984 destructor calls to glibc.
3985
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3986* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
3987 output.
3988
3989* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
3990 non-x86 architectures.
3991
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3992* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
3993
3994* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
3995
3996* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
3997 Richard Henderson.
3998
3999* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4000
4001* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4002 Richard Henderson.
4003
4004* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4005 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4006
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4007* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4008
57267616
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4009* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4010 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4011
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4012* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4013 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4014
0748546f
PE
4015* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4016 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4017 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4018
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4019* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4020 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4021 attributes of a process.
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4022
4023* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4024 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4025 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4026 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4027 mutexes.
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4028
4029* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4030 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4031
4032* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
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4034Version 2.17
4035
4036* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4037
80ceeaee 4038 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
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4039 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4040 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4041 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4042 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4043 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4044 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4045 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4046 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4047 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4048 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4049 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4050 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4051 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4052 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4053
95b4f1b6
SE
4054* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4055
14bc93a9
JL
4056* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4057 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4058
b54eb3cb
JM
4059* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4060 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4061
7e2bd01f
MS
4062* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4063
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4064* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4065 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4066 zEnterprise z196.
4067 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4068
84b3fd84
FW
4069* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4070 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4071 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4072
815e6fa3
GB
4073* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4074 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4075
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MK
4076* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4077 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4078
7aab07e4 4079* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4080 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4081
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4082* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4083 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4084
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4085* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4086 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
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4087 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4088 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4089
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4090* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4091 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4092
85429b1a 4093* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4094 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
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4095 default.
4096
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4097* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4098 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4099 information in --help and --version output.
4100
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4101* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4102 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4103 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4104
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4105* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4106 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4107 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4108 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4109 when the mode is enabled.
4110
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4111* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4112 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4113 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4114 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4115 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4116 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4117 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4118
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4119* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4120 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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4122Version 2.16
4123
4124* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4125
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4126 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4127 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4128 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4129 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4130 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4131 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4132 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4133 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4134 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4135 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4136 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4137 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4138 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4139 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4140 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4141 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4142 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4143 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4144 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4145 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4146 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4147 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4148 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4149
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4150* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4151 configuring glibc with:
4152 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4153 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
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4154 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4155
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4156* ISO C11 support:
4157
4158 + define static_assert
4159
4160 + do not declare gets
4161
4162 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4163
4164 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4165 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4166 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4167 implementation.
8d44e150 4168
74033a25 4169 + timespec_get added
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4170
4171 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4172
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4173 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4174
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4175 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4176
9dc4e1fb 4177* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4178
4179* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4180
4181* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4183
4184* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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AJ
4186
4187* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4188 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4189 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4190 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4191 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4192
21708942 4193* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4194 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4195 before 2.6.
83678f76 4196
edb00e4d
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4197* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4198 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4199 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4200
83678f76 4201* New locales: mag_IN
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4202
4203* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4204 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4205 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4206 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4207 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4208
4209* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4210
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4211* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4212 and Will Schmidt.
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4213
4214* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4215
4216* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4217 without a previously built glibc.
4218
4219* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4220 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4221
4222* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4223 now supported for ARM processors.
4224
4225* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4226 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4227 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4228
4229* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
4230
4231* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4232 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4233 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4234 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4235
4236* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4237 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4238 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4239 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4240
4241* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4242 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4243 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4244 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4245 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4246
4247* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4248 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4249 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4250 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4252Version 2.15
11988f8f 4253
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4254* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4255
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4256 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4257 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4258 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4259 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4260 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4261 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4262 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 4263
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4264* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4265 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4266
4267* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4268 and support for initgroups lookups.
4269 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4270
4271* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4272 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4273
4274* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4275 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4276
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4277* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4278 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4279 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4280
d42964a0 4281* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4282 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4283
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4284* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4285 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4286 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4287
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4288* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4289 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4290
4291* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4292 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4293
4294* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4295 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4296
4297* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4299
4300* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4301 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4302
4303* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4304 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4305
4306* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4307
4308* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4309 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4310
f0b264f1
AZ
4311* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4312 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4313
6b64057b 4314* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4315\f
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9f94d2ea 4317
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4319
553149f6 4320 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4321 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4322 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4323 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4325 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4326 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4328 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4329 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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4331* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4332 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4333 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4334 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4336 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4338 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4339 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4340
c6489db3 4341* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4342 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4343
72d1dddb 4344* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4345 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4347* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4349* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4350 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4352* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4353 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4354 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4355 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4358
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4360
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4361 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4362 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4363 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4364 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4365 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4366
10b3bedc 4367* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4368
ac2b484c 4369* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
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4371* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4372 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4375Version 2.12
4376
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4378
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4379 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4380 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4381 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4382 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4383 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4384 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4385 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4386 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4388* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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4390* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4391
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4392* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4393
4394* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4395 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4396 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4397
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4398* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4399 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4400 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4401 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4402 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4403
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4407
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4409
4410 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4411 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4412 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4413 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4414 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4415 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4416
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4417* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4418 mkostemps64
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4419 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4420
24ab9c76 4421* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4422 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4423
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4424* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4425 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4426
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4427* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4428
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9d36a6c4 4430 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 4431 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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4433
9d36a6c4 4434 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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4435 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4436
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4437* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4438 strstr, strcasestr.
4439 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4440
4441* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4442 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4443
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4444* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4445 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4446
4447* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4448 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4449
4450* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4451 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4452 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4453 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4454 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4455 necessity is every process again.
4456 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4457
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4458* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4459 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4460
4461* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4462 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4463
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4464* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4465 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4466 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4467
9dd5b8a1 4468* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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4470Version 2.10
4471
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4472* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4473
4474 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4475 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4476 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4477 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4478 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4479
bb066545 4480* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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4481 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4482
425ce2ed 4483* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 4484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 4485
1fdd89a7 4486* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 4487 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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4489* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4490 now in POSIX.
77db439e 4491
1f04d005 4492* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 4493 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 4494
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4495* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4497
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4498* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4499 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4500
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4501* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4502 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4503
4504* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4505 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4506 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4507
735be400 4508* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 4509
84aa52d7 4510* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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4511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4512
4513* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4514 and extend existing format specifiers.
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4515 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4516
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4517* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4518 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4519
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4520* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4521 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4522 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4523 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4524 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4527Version 2.9
4528
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4529* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4530
4531 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
4532 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
4533 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
4534 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
4535 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4536
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4538 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4539
4540* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4541 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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4543* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4546* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4547 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4549
4550* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4551 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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8ec2550e 4553* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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4554
4555* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 4556 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4558* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4559 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4560 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4561 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562
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4563* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4564 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4566* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4567 Sinhala)
48b22986 4568 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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4570* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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4573
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4574* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4575
4576 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4577 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4578 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4579 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4580 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4581 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4582 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4583
e038616f 4584* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 4586* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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4588* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4589 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4590
4591* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4592
4593* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4595
4596* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4597 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4598
4599* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4600 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4601 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4602
4603* Faster memset for x86-64.
4604 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4605
4606* Faster memcpy on x86.
4607 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4608
4609* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4610 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4612* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 4613 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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4615Version 2.7
4616
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4617* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4618
4619 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4620 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4621 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4622 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4623 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4624
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4625* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4626 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4627
4628* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4629
4630* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4631 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4632 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4633
4634* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4635 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4636
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4638 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4639
4640* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4641
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4642* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4644
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4645* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4646 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4647
4648* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4649 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4650
4651* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4652
4653* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4654 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4656* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4657 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4658 yo_NG.
4659
4660+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4666
4667 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4668 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4669 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4670 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4671 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4672 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4673 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4674 4702, 4858
4675
bce20b9a 4676* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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4679
b21fa963 4680* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4683
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4684* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4685
4686 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4687 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4688 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4689 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4690 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4691 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4692 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4693 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4694 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4695
3af48b5b 4696* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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4697 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4698 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4700* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4702
871b9158 4703* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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4704
4705* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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4707* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4708 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4709 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 4710 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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4712
07bfff20 4713* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
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4715 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4716 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4717
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4719 Ulrich Drepper.
4720
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4721* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4722
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4723* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4724 Ulrich Drepper.
4725
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4726* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4727
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4728* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4729 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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4732
4733* More overflow detection functions.
4734
4735* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4736 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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4738 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4739 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4740 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4741 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4742 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4743 by Masahide Washizawa.
4744
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4745* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4746 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4748* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4749 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4750 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4751 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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4753* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4754 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4755
4756* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4757
4758* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4759 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4760 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4761
4762* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4763 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4764
4765* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4766 for compatibility with some other systems.
4767
4768* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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4770Version 2.3.6
4771
4772* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4773
4774 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4775 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4776 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4777 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4778 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
4779 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
4780
5a82c748 4781 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4782
4783* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
4784
4785* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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4787Version 2.3.5
4788
4789* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4790
4791 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
4792 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
4793 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
4794 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
4795
5a82c748 4796 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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4798Version 2.3.4
4799
4800* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
4801 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4803* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
4804 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
4805 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4806
4807* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
4808 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
4809
0325dd20 4810* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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4811 efficiently.
4812 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4813
4814* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
4815 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
4816 handling data.
4817
4818* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
4819 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 4820 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4821
4822* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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4823 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4824
4825* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
4826 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
4827 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
4828 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4829
4830* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
4831 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
4832 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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4833 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4834
4835* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
4836 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
4837 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
4838 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
4839 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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4841Version 2.3.3
4842
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4843* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
4844 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
4845
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4846* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
4847 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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69be6aaf 4849* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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4850 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
4851
4852* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
4853 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4855* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
4856 by Roland McGrath.
4857
c5af724c 4858* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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4859 and Ulrich Drepper.
4860
4861* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
4862 RFC 3484.
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4864Version 2.3.2
4865
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4866* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
4867 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
4868 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
4869 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
4870 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
4871 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
4872 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
4873 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
4874 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
4875
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4876* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
4877 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
4878 and are now also available on the Hurd.
4879
4880* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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4882* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
4883 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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4885* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
4886 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
4887
52a16e58 4888* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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4890* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
4891 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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4892
4893* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
4894 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
4895 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
4896 of weak definition in ld.so.
4897
4898* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
4899 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
4900
4901* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
4902 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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4906* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
4907 charsets.
4908
4909* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
4910 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 4911
bb0ec5bd 4912* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 4913 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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4915* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
4916 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 4917
bb0ec5bd 4918* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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4919 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
4920 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4921
4922* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
4923 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 4924
bb0ec5bd 4925* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 4926 implementation of regex.
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4927
4928* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
4929 Unicode 3.2.
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4931* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
4932 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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4934* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
4935 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
4936 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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4937
4938* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 4939 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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4940
4941* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
4942 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
4943 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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4944
4945* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
4946 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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4947
4948* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
4949 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
4950 and Ulrich Drepper.
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4951
4952* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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4954Version 2.2.6
4955
4956* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
4957 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
4958
4959* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
4960 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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4962Version 2.2.5
4963
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4964* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
4965 128-bit long double format.
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4967* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
4968 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 4969
ad2e4f18 4970* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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4972* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
4973
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4974* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
4975 as well.
4976
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4977* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
4978 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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4979
4980* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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4982Version 2.2.4
4983
2995f70e 4984* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 4985 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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4986
4987* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
4988 support Unicode 3.1.
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4989
4990* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
4991 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 4992
69d5f925 4993* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 4994
69d5f925 4995* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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4996 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
4997 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
4998
4999* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5000 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5001
5002* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5003 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5005* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5007Version 2.2.3
5008
1746f2b0 5009* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5010 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5011 in float, double, and long double format.
5012
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5014 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5015 128-bit long double format.
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5017* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5018 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5019 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5020 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5021
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5022* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5023 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5024 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5025
5026* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5027 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5028
5029* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5030 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5032* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5033 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5034 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5035
5036* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5037 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5039* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5040 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5041
5042* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5044Version 2.2.2
5045
464d97ec 5046* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5047 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5048 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5049 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5050 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5051 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5052 other headers.
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5053
5054* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5055 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5056
5057* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5058 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5059 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5060 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5061
5062* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5063 locales. While
5064
5065 locale -a
5066
5067 only lists the names of the supported locales
5068
5069 locale -a --verbose
5070
5071 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5072 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5074Version 2.2.1
5075
5076* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5077 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5078 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5079 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5080 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5081
5082 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5083
5084 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5085
5086 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5087
5088* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5089 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5090 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5091
5092* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5093 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5094
5095* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5096 changed from the default "C" locale.
5097
5098* The usual bug fixes.
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5100Version 2.2
5101
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5102* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5103 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5104 is in progress.
5105
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5106* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5107
793bd4d9 5108* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5110 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5111 obviously requires a database library being available.
5112
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5113* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5114
abbffdf9 5115* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5117* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5118 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5119
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5120* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5121
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5122* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5123 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5124 and Mark Kettenis.
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5125
5126 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5127 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5128 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5129
a00c3ca9 5130 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5131 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5132
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5133* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5134 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5135 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5136
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5137* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5138 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5139 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5140 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5141
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5142 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5143 structures for the wide character tables.
5144
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5145* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5146
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5147* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5148
5149* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5150
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5151* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5152 and Yutaka Niibe.
5153
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5154* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5155
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5156* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5157
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5158* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5159
5160* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5161
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5162* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5163
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5164* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5165 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5166 implemented for Linux.
5167
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5168* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5169 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5170 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5171 versions.
5172
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5173* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5174 Masahide Washizawa.
5175
8f3f1e09 5176* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5178Version 2.1.3
5179
5180* bug fixes
5181
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5183Version 2.1.2
5184
5185* bug fixes
5186
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5188Version 2.1.1
5189
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5190* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5191
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5192* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5193
407d26b7 5194* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5195
5196* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5197
407d26b7 5198* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5199
407d26b7 5200* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5201
5202* Update timezone data files.
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5204* lots of charmaps corrections
5205
5206* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5207
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5210
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5211* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5212 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5213 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5214 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5215 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5216 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5217
c84142e8 5218* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5219 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5220
1fb05e3d 5221* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5223
5224* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5225 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
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cbdee279 5227* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5228
5229* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5230 numbers.
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cbdee279 5232* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5233
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5234* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5235 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 5236
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5237* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5238 library.
5239
e61abf83 5240* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5241 functions from ISO C 9X.
5242
5243* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5244 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5245
a5a0310d 5246* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 5247
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5248* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5249
5250* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5251
440d13e2 5252* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5253
5254* Optimized string functions have been added.
5255
5256* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5257
5258* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5260* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5261 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5262
5263 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5264 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5265
0dee6738 5266 user system wall
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0dee6738 5268 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5269
0dee6738 5270 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5271
0dee6738 5272 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5274 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5275
5276 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5277
5278 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5280 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5281 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5282 horribly slow.
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5284 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5285 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5286
5287* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5289* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5290
5291* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5292 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5293
5294* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5296* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5297 Bambrough.
5298
5299* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5300 latest draft standards.
5301
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5302* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5303
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5305~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5306addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5308argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5309argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5310argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5311argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5312argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5313argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5314argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5315argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5316argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5317argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5318authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5319authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5320authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5321backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5322backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5323backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5324cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5325cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5326cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5327cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5328cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5329cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5330capget NEW: kernel
5331capset NEW: kernel
5332carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5333cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5334cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5335casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5336casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5337casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5338casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5339casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5340casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5341catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5342catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5343catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5344catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5345catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5346catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5348ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5349ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5350ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5351ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5352ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5353ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5354cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5355cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5356cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5357cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5358cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5359cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5360clearerr_locked REMOVED
5361clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5362clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5363clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5364clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5365clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5366clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5367clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5368conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5369conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5370conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5371cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5372cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5373cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5374cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5375cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5376cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5377creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5378crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5379creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5380creat64 NEW: LFS
5381csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5382csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5383csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5384csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5385csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5386csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5387csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5388csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5389csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5390ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5391ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5392ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5393ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5394ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5395ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5396des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5397ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5398endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5399exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5400exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5401exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5402exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5403exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5404exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5405fattach NEW: STREAMS
5406fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5407fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5408fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5409fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5410feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5411fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5412fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5413fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5414feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5415feof_locked REMOVED
5416feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5417ferror_locked REMOVED
5418fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5419fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5420fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5421fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5422feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5423fflush_locked REMOVED
5424ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5425ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5426fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5427fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5428fileno_locked REMOVED
5429fma NEW: ISO C 9x
5430fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5431fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
5432fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
5433fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
5434fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
5435fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
5436fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
5437fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 5438fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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5439fopen64 NEW: LFS
5440fputc_locked REMOVED
5441fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5442fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5443freopen64 NEW: LFS
5444fseeko NEW: Unix98
5445fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
5446fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
5447fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5448fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
5449ftello NEW: Unix98
5450ftello64 NEW: LFS
5451ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5452ftw64 NEW: LFS
5453fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5454gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5455gamma_r REMOVED
5456gammaf_r REMOVED
5457gammal_r REMOVED
5458getchar_locked REMOVED
5459getdate NEW: Unix98
5460getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5461getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5462getmsg NEW: STREAMS
5463getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 5464getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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5465getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5466getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5467getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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5468getutxent NEW: Unix98
5469getutxid NEW: Unix98
5470getutxline NEW: Unix98
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5471glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5472globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5473gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5474gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5475grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 5476host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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5477iconv NEW: iconv
5478iconv_close NEW: iconv
5479iconv_open NEW: iconv
5480if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5481if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5482if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5483if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5484in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5485in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5486inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5487isastream NEW: STREAMS
5488iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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5489key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5490key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5491key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5492key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5493key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5494key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5495key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5496key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5497key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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5498llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5499llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5500llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5501llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5502llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5503llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5504log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5505log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5506log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5507lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5508lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5509lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5510lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5511lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5512lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5513lseek64 NEW: LFS
5514makecontext NEW: Unix98
5515mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5516mmap64 NEW: LFS
5517moncontrol REMOVED
5518modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5519nan NEW: ISO C 9x
5520nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5521nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5522nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5523nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5524nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5525netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5526netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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5527nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5528nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5529nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5530nftw NEW: Unix98
5531nftw64 NEW: LFS
5532open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 5533passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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5534pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
5535pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5536pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5537pread NEW: Unix98
5538pread64 NEW: LFS
5539printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5540printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5541profil_counter REMOVED
5542pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5543pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5544ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5545ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5546putc_locked REMOVED
5547putchar_locked REMOVED
5548putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5549putmsg NEW: STREAMS
5550putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 5551pututxline NEW: Unix98
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5552pwrite NEW: Unix98
5553pwrite64 NEW: LFS
5554readdir64 NEW: LFS
5555readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5556remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5557remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5558remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5559round NEW: ISO C 9x
5560roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5561roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5562rtime NEW: GNU ext.
5563scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5564scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5565scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5566scandir64 NEW: LFS
5567sendfile NEW: kernel
5568setcontext NEW: Unix98
5569setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 5570setutxent NEW: Unix98
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5571sighold NEW: Unix98
5572sigignore NEW: Unix98
5573sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5574sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5575sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5576sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5577sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5578sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5579sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5580sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5581statfs64 NEW: LFS
5582statvfs NEW: Unix98
5583statvfs64 NEW: LFS
5584strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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5585strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5586strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5587strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 5588svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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5589svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5590svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5591swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5592tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5593tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5594tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5595tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5596tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5597tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
5598trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
5599truncate64 NEW: LFS
5600truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5601truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5602umount2 NEW: kernel
5603unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 5604updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 5605user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5606utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 5607versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 5608versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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5609waitid NEW: Unix98
5610wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5611wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5612wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5613wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5614wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5615wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5616wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5617wcswcs NEW: Unix98
5618wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5619wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5620write_profiling REMOVED
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5621xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5622xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5623xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5624xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5625xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5626xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5627xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5628xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5629xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5630xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5631xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5632xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5633xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 5634xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
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48244d09 5636~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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5638Version 2.0.6
5639
5640* more bug fixes
5641
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5642\f
5643Version 2.0.5
5644
5645* more bug fixes
5646
5647* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5648
5649* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5650
5651* rewrite of cbrt function
5652
5653* update of timezone data
5654\f
5655Version 2.0.4
5656
5657* more bug fixes
5658\f
5659Version 2.0.3
5660
5661* more bug fixes
c84142e8 5662\f
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5663Version 2.0.2
5664
5665* more bug fixes
5666
5667* add atoll function
5668
5669* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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5670
5671* fix math functions
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5673Version 2.0.1
5674
5675* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5676
5677* dynamic loader preserves all registers
5678
5679* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5680 the ELF dynamic loader.
5681
5682* support for parallel builds is improved
5683\f
40a4b79f 5684Version 2.0
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5686* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5687 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5688 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
5689
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5690* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5691 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5692 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5693 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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5694 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5695 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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5696 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5697 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5698 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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5699 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5700 files in the ELF format.
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5701
5702* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5703 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5704
5705* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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5706 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5707 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5708 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5709 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5710 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5711 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5712 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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5713 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5714 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5715 about dynamically linked binaries.
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5717* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5718 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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5719 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5720 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5721 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 5722
f7eac6eb 5723* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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5724 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5725 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5726 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5727 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5728
5729* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 5730
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5731* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5732 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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5733 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5734 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5735 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5736 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5737 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5738 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5739 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 5740
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5741* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5742 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5743 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5744
5745* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5746 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5747 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5748
5749* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5750 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5751 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5752 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5753
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5754* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5755 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5756 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5757
5758* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5759 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5760 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5761
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5762* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5763 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5764
f7eac6eb 5765* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 5766 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 5767 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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5768 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5769
5770* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5771 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5772 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 5773
71733723 5774* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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5775 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5776 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5777 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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5778 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
5779 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 5780 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 5781 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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5782
5783* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
5784 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
5785 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
5786 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
5787 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
5788 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
5789 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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5790
5791* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
5792 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
5793 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
5794 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
5795 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
5796 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
5797
5798* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
5799 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5800
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5801* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
5802 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
5803 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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5805* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
5806
5807* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
5808 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
5809 their use is discouraged.
5810
5811* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
5812 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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5814* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
5815 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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5816
5817* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
5818 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
5819
5820* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
5821 see <dirent.h>.
5822
5823* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
5824 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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5825 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
5826 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
5827 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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5828
5829* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
5830 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
5831 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
5832 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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5833
5834* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
5835 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
5836
5837* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
5838 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
5839 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
5840 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
5841 number generator.
5842
5843* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
5844 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
5845
5846* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
5847 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
5848
71733723 5849* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 5850 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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5851 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
5852 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 5853
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5854* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
5855
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5856* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
5857 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
5858 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
5859
5860* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
5861 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 5863* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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5864 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
5865 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
5866 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
5867
5868* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
5869 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
5870 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
5871 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
5872 programs already written to use it.)
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5873
5874* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
5875 constants.
5876
5877* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
5878 with 4.4 BSD.
5879
5880* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
5881 a given effective group ID.
5882
5883* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
5884 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
5885 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
5886 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
5887
5888* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 5889 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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5890 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
5891 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
5892 doing the same thing.
5893
5894* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
5895 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
5896
5897* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 5898 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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5899
5900* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
5901
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5902* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
5903 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
5904 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 5905 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 5906 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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5907
5908* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
5909 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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5910
5911* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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5912 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
5913 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
5914 function.
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5915
5916* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
5917
5918* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
5919 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
5920 strings.
5921
5922* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
5923 and writing the utmp file.
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5924
5925* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
5926 Thorsten Kukuk.
5927
5928* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
5929 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
5930 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
5931
5932* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
5933 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
5934
5935* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
5936 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
5937 specification.
5938
5939* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
5940 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
5941 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
5942 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
5943
5944* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
5945 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
5946 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
5947
5948* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
5949 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
5950 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
5951 expression matcher.
5952
5953* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
5954 functionality.
5955
5956* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
5957 by Ulrich Drepper.
5958
5959* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
5960
5961* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
5962 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
5963 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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5965Version 1.09
5966
5967* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
5968
5969* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
5970 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
5971
5972* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
5973 want to put themselves in the background.
5974
5975* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
5976 run without an operating system.
5977
5978* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
5979 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
5980
5981* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
5982 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
5983
5984* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
5985
5986* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
5987 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
5988 have YP (aka NIS).
5989
5990* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
5991 conventions.
5992
5993* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
5994 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
5995\f
5996Version 1.08
5997
5998* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
5999 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6000 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6001
6002* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6003 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6004
6005* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6006 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6007
6008* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6009
6010* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6011
6012* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6013 compatibility.
6014
6015* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6016 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6017 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6018
6019* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6020
6021* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6022 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6023 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6024
6025* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6026 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6027 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6028 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6029 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6030 on a block).
6031
6032* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6033 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6034 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6035 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6036 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6037 cross-compiler.
6038
6039* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6040 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6041\f
6042Version 1.07
6043
6044* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6045 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6046
6047* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6048 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6049 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6050
6051* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6052 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6053 address of the last character written.
6054
6055* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6056 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6057
6058* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6059 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6060
6061* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6062 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6063 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6064 you dereference this pointer.
6065
6066* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6067 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6068
6069* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6070 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6071 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6072 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6073
6074* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6075 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6076 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6077 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6078\f
6079Version 1.06
6080
6081* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6082 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6083 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6084 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6085 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6087* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6088
6089* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6090
6091* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6092 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6093
6094* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6095 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6096
6097* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6098 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6099
6100* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6101 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6102 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6103 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6104 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6105
6106* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6107 to the error code in `errno'.
6108
6109* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6110 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6111 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6112 malloc'd string.
6113
6114* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6115 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6116 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6117
6118* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6119 uniquely-named temporary file.
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6121Version 1.05
6122
6123* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6124 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6125 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6126
6127* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6128 characters.
6129
6130* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6131 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6132
6133* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6134\f
6135Version 1.04
6136
6137* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6138 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6139 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6140 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6141
6142* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6143 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6144 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6145
6146* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6147 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6148
6149* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6150 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6151 made itself into a shared library.
6152
6153* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6154 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6155
6156* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6157 with limited length.
6158
6159* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6160
6161* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6162
6163* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6164
6165* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6166 function for traversing a directory tree.
6167
6168* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6169 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6170 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6171 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6172
6173* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6174 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6175
6176* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6177
6178* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6179 things to your strings.
6180
6181* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6182
6183* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6184 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6185 supporting those systems.
6186
6187* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6188 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6189 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6190 configuration files.
6191
6192* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6193 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6194
6195* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6197 in <strings.h>.)
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6198
6199* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6200 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6201 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6202 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6203 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6204 required storage is not available.
6205
6206* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6207 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6208
6209* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6210 latest files released from Berkeley.
6211\f
6212----------------------------------------------------------------------
6213Copyright information:
6214
5f72f980 6215Copyright (C) 1992-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6216
6217 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6218 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6219 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6220 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6221
6222 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6223 of this document, or of portions of it,
6224 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6225 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6226\f
6227Local variables:
6228version-control: never
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