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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
6d7e8eda 2Copyright (C) 1992-2023 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 2.38
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10Major new features:
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12* When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
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17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
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20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
21 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
22 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
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24* PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
25 <inttypes.h>.
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27* printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
28 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
29 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
30 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
31 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
32 specified in draft ISO C2X.
33
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34* A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
35 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
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37* Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
38 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
39
40 - x86_64-gnu
41
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42* Added libmvec vector math library support to AArch64. It requires
43 GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via --disable-mathvec,
44 however that is not a supported configuration as it changes the ABI.
45 The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI, they are declared
46 in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
47
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48* The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
49 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
50
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51* A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
52 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
53 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
54 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
55 original behavior unchanged.
56
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57Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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59* In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
60 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
61 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
62 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
63 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
64 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
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66* The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
67 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
68 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
69
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70* The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
71 feature is now always enabled.
72
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73Changes to build and runtime requirements:
74
75 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
76
77Security related changes:
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79 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
80 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
81 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
82 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
83 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
84 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
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86The following bugs are resolved with this release:
87
88 [The release manager will add the list generated by
89 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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91Version 2.37
92
93Major new features:
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95* The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
96 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
97 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
98 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
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100Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
101
90d58fe8 102* The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
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103 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
104 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
105 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
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107Security related changes:
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109 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
110 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
111 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
112 portion of the contents of the heap.
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113
114The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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116 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
117 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
118 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
119 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
120 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
121 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
122 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
123 redirection headers
124 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
125 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
126 first if in a cycle
127 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
128 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
129 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
130 gethostbyname and other functions
131 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
132 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
133 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
134 wrong family
135 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
136 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
137 failed!
138 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
139 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
140 FAIL_UNSUPPORTED
141 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
142 segfault on alpha
143 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
144 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
145 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
146 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
147 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
148 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
149 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
150 reuses namespace
151 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
152 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
153 futexes on qemu-user
154 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
155 printed
156 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
157 whitespace
158 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
159 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
160 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
161 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
162 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
163 file support
164 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
165 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
166 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
167 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
168 cache is enabled
169 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
170 BMI2 instructions
171 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
172 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
173 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
174 platforms
175 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
176 optimizations
177 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
178 thousands grouping
179 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
180 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
181 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
182 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
183 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
184 aux.S: No such file or directory)
185 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
186 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
187 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
188 coincides with offset change
189 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
190 length in fortify mode
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192Version 2.36
193
194Major new features:
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196* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
197 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
198 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
199 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
200 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
201 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
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203* On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
204 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
7f0d9e61 205 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
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207* On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
208 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
209 by the pidfd.
210
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211* On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
212 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
213 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
214 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
215
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216* The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
217 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
218 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
219 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
220 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
221 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
222 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
223 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
224 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
225 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
226 validation by applications.
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228* On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
229 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
230 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
231 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
78a408ee 232 with namespaces.
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234* localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
235 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
236 unpredictable output.
237
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238* Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
239 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
240 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
241 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
242 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
243 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
244 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
245 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
246
6f4e0fcf 247* The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
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248 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
249 quality randomness from the kernel.
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3a380458 251* Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
252 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
253 ABI is supported:
254
255 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
256
257 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
258
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259Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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261* Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
262 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
263 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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265* The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
266 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
267 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
268 when libc.so is issued directly.
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270* On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
271
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272The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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274 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
275 return different result with versioned "foo"
276 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
277 mess
278 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
279 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
280 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
281 calls dlclose
282 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
283 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
284 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
285 enforced
286 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
287 deadlock
288 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
289 format
290 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
291 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
292 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
293 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
294 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
295 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
296 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
297 other standards.
298 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
299 from the stack
300 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
301 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
302 (breaks test isolation)
303 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
304 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
305 __convert_scm_timestamps
306 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
307 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
308 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
309 missing libraries
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311 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
312 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
313 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
314 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
315 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
316 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
317 SUCCESS=MERGE
318 [28936] build: nm: No such file
319 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
320 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
321 clobbers errno
322 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
323 bench.
324 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
325 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
326 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
327 /proc/self/fd/
328 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
329 on ENOENT and EACCES
330 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
331 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
332 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
333 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
334 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
335 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
336 is promoted to global scope
337 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
338 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
339 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
340 broke ld.so
341 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
342 AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW
343 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
344 failure
345 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
346 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
347 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
348 before '__fortified_attr_access'
349 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
350 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
351 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
352 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
353 value for filling after \0
354 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
355 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
356 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
357 aware
358 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
359 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
360 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
361 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
362 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
363 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
364 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
365 line 184
366 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
367 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
368 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
369 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
370 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
371 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
372 missing on microblaze with largefile
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376Major new features:
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378* Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
379 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
380 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
381
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382* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
383 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
384
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385* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
386 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
387 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
388 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
389 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
390 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
391 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
392 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
393 glibc, and must be installed.
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395* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
396 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
397 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
398
399 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
400 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
401
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403 fMxfmafNx functions.
404
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405* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
406 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
407 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
408 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
409 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
410 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
411
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412* <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
413 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
414 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
415 M_SQRT1_2f.
416
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417* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
418 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
419
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420* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
421 macro in <tgmath.h>.
422
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423* The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
424
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425* printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
426 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
427 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
428
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429* A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
430 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
431 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
432 object dependency cases.
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434* A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
435 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
436 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
437 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
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439* ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
440 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
441 return value is only used for its boolean status.
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443* Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
444 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
445 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
446 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
447 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
448 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
449 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
450 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
451 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
452 Restartable Sequences.
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454* A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
455 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
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457* All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
458 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
459 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
460 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
461 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
462 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
463 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
464 configuration.
465
5f6d8d97 466* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
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468 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
469 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
470 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
471 huge pages.
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474 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
475
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476* The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
477 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
478 address.
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481 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
482 ABI is supported:
483
484 - or1k-linux-gnu
485
486 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
487 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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490 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
491 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
492 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
493 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
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496 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
497
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499 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
500 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
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503 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
504 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
505 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
506 bounds).
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509 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
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514 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
515 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
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518 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
519
520 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
521 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
522
523 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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528 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
529 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
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532 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
533 catching coredumps and backtraces.
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536 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
537 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
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539* The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
540 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
541 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
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544 support prelink PIE binaries.
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549 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
32ffd427 550 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
7f0d9e61 551 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
32ffd427 552 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
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555 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
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557 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
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559Security related changes:
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561 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
562 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
563 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
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565 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
566 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
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569 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
570 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
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572 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
573 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
574 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
575 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
576 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
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580 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
581 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
582 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
583 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
584 many dsos
585 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
586 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
587 degradation
588 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
589 loaded with dlmopen
590 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
591 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
592 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
593 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
594 ID whose lifetime has not ended
595 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
596 (CVE-2022-23219)
597 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
598 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
599 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
600 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
601 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
602 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
603 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
604 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
605 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
606 --enable-initfini-array
607 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
608 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
609 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
610 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
611 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
612 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
613 empty
614 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
615 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
616 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
617 built with ld.lld
618 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
619 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
620 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
621 2.34
622 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
623 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
624 robustness
625 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
626 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
627 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
628 AT_MINSIGSTKSZ
629 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
630 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
631 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
632 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
633 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
634 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
635 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
636 file
637 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
638 only dynamic section
639 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
640 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
641 recvmsg()
642 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
643 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
644 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
645 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
646 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
647 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
648 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
649 C2X
650 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
651 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
652 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
653 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
654 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
655 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
656 globalmod1.so
657 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
658 systems with TIMESIZE=64
659 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
660 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
661 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
662 spurious NUL character on state reset
663 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
664 incorrect
665 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
666 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
667 execution test
668 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
669 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
670 hppa
671 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
672 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
673 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
674 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
675 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
676 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
677 crashes
678 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
679 binutils changes
680 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
681 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
682 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
683 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
684 is not useful
685 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
686 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
687 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
688 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
689 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
690 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
691 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
692 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
693 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
694 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
695 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
696 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
697 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
698 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
699 (CVE-2022-23218)
700 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
701 (CVE-2021-3999)
702 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
703 results (CVE-2021-3998)
704 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
705 in Systemtap probes
706 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
707 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
708 x86-64-baseline
709 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
710 with no closing ]
711 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
712 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
713 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
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718Major new features:
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721 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
722 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
723 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
724 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
725 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
726 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
727 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
728 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
729 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
730 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
731 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
732 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
733 potentially exposing application bugs.
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736 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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738 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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740* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
741 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 742 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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744 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
745 Arm SVE.
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748 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
749 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
750
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752 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
753 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
754 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
755
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757
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759 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
760 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
761 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
762 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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765 --disable-scv configure option.
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768 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
769 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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771 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
772 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
773 version of 5.1.
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776 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
777 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
778 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
779 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
780 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
781 that directory.
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784 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
785
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789 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
790 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
791 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
792 is currently a GNU extension.
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795 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
796
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799 although it is also present in other systems.
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802 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
803 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
804 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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807 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
808 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
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813 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
814 instead.
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817 programs should use the equivalent standard function
818 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
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821 programs should use the equivalent standard function
822 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
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825 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
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828
829* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
830 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
831 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
832 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
833 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
834 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
835 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
836 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
837 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
838 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
839 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
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842 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
843 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
844 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
845 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
846 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
847 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
848 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
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851 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
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854 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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856 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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859 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
860 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
861 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
862 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
863 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
864 upgrade or downgrade process.
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867 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
868 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
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871 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
872 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
873 no longer have any effect on malloc.
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876 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
877 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
878 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
879 this functionality back.
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882 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
883 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
884 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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887 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
888 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
889 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
890 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
891 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
892 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
893 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
894 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
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899 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
900 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
901 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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903Security related changes:
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906 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
907 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
908 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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911 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
912 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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915 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
916 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
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921 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
922 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
923 given integer (closefrom)
924 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
925 name containing multi-byte character(s)
926 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
927 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
928 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
929 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
930 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
931 random thread
932 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
933 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
934 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
935 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
936 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
937 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
938 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
939 manual is incorrect
940 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
941 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
942 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
943 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
944 pthread_create and dlopen
945 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
946 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
947 when non-root user changes priority
948 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
949 dlopen
950 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
951 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
952 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
953 ordered correctly
954 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
955 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
956 data.
957 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
958 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
959 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
960 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
961 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
962 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
963 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
964 the right free implementation
965 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
966 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
967 shm_open to pick wrong directory
968 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
969 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
970 protector=all)
971 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
972 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
973 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
974 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
975 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
976 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
977 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
978 uninitialized
979 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
980 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
981 system calls
982 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
983 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
984 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
985 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
986 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
987 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
988 deployments
989 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
990 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
991 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
992 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
993 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
994 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
995 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
996 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
997 is present
998 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
999 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1000 protector=all
1001 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1002 information for the current directory
1003 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1004 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1005 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1006 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1007 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1008 containers
1009 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1010 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1011 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1012 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1013 INT_MAX
1014 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1015 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1016 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1017 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1018 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1019 tries resolving them lazily
1020 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1021 libthread_db
1022 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1023 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1024 argument
1025 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1026 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1027 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1028 not set ENOMEM
1029 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1030 randomization
1031 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1032 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1033 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1034 IS_ERR_VALUE
1035 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1036 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1037 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1038 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1039 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1040 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1041 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1042 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1043 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1044 with n >= 0x80000000
1045 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1046 thread never allocated anything
1047 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1048 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1049 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1050 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1051 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1052 on older kernels
1053 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1054 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1055 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1056 AMD64 cpus
1057 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1058 terminator
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1063Major new features:
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1066 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1067 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
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1070 to change argv[0] string.
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1073 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1074 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1075 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1076 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1077 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1078 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1079 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1080 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1081
1082* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1083 information and library search path diagnostics.
1084
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1086 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1087 larger than fit in an integer.
1088
96203980 1089* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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1091* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1092 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1093
1094 - rv32imac ilp32
1095 - rv32imafdc ilp32
1096 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
1097
1098 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1099 2.28.
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1102 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1103 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1104 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1105 fortification.
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1110 mallinfo2 instead.
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1113 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1114 Instead, the default implementation is used.
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1117 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1118 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1119 prlimit.
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1122 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1123 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
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1126 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1127 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1128 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1129 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1130 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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1133 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1134 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1135 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1136 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1137 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1138 loaded.
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1143 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
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1146 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1147 perform any adjustments.
1148
1149* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1150 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1151 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1152 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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1157
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934c48a0 1159 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
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1161 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1162 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1163
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1164 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1165 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1166 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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1169 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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1172 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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1177 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1178 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1179 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1180 AT_EACCESS
1181 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
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1184 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1185 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1186 with GCC
1187 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1188 stack-protector=all
1189 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1190 cases
1191 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1192 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1193 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1194 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1195 changing gnuc version
1196 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1197 incorrect
1198 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1199 bits
1200 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1201 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1202 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1203 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1204 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
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1207 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1208 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1209 too much stack space
1210 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1211 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1212 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1213 with optimization.
1214 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1215 anymore
1216 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1217 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1218 non-FMA4 system
1219 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1220 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1221 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1222 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1223 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1224 getaddrinfo
1225 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1226 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1227 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1228 fault
1229 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1230 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1231 at the end of a memory mapping
1232 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1233 by the caller to the kernel
1234 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1235 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1236 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1237 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1238 monotonic clocks
1239 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1240 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1241 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1242 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1243 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1244 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1245 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1246 one element
1247 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1248 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1249 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1250 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1251 lazy bound
1252 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1253 PI mutexes
1254 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1255 not safe
1256 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1257 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1258 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1259 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1260 platform
1261 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1262 startup code
1263 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1264 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1265 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1266 protected
1267 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1268 only since 2.31
1269 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1270 locked
1271 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1272 aligned
1273 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1274 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1275 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1276 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1277 detection logic
1278 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1279 pclose(3))
1280 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1281 setup
1282 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1283 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1284 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1285 work
1286 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1287 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1288 [27177] dynamic-link:
1289 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1290 work
1291 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1292 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1293 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1294 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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1299Major new features:
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1302 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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1304
1305* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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1308 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1309 Three ABIs are supported:
1310
1311 - arc-linux-gnu
1312 - arc-linux-gnuhf
1313 - arceb-linux-gnu
1314
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1319 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
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1324 this option.
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1327 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1328 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1329
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1332 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
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1335 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1336 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1337 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1338 libpthread.
1339
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1342 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1343 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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1345 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1346
1347 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1348 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1349
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1352 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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1354 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1355 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1356
1357 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1358 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
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1361 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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1363 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1364 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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1366 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1367 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1368 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1369 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1370 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1371 BTI compatible.
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1376 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1377 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1378 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1379 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1380 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1381 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1382
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1384 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1385 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1386 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1387 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1388 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1389 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 1390 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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1391 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1392
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1393* The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1394 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1395 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1396 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1397 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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1399* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1400 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1401 was not declared in any header file.
1402
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1403* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1404 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1405 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1406 sigaction functions instead.
1407
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1408* ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1409 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1410
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1411* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1412 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1413 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1414 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1415 strsignal instead.
1416
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1417* The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1418 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 1419 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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1420 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1421 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1422
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1423* Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1424 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1425 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1426 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1427
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1428* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1429 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1430 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1431 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1432 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1433 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1434 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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1437 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1438 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1439 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1440 flavor of secure RPC.)
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1442* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1443 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1444 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1445 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1446 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1447 object, to enable the hooks.
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1449* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1450 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1451 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1452 LDAP.
1453
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1456* powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1457 long double redirects.
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1459Security related changes:
1460
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1461 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1462 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1463 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1464
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1465 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1466 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1467 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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1469 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1470 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1471
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1472 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1473 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1474 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1475 TALOS-2020-1019).
1476
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1480 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1481 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1482 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1483 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1484 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1485 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1486 filtee has constructor
1487 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1488 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1489 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1490 character entities for infinity & pi
1491 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1492 segfaults in applications
1493 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
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1495 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1496 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1497 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1498 function with -mlong-double-64
1499 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1500 binding
1501 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1502 ld.so.cache
1503 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1504 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1505 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1506 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1507 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1508 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1509 linker
1510 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1511 dynamically loaded dsos
1512 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1513 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1514 access
1515 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1516 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1517 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1518 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1519 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1520 stale configuration forever
1521 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1522 (CVE-2020-10029)
1523 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1524 defaults to PIE
1525 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1526 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1527 (CVE-2020-6096)
1528 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1529 on 32 bit and old kernel
1530 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1531 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1532 Occitan
1533 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1534 amount of sigset_t bytes
1535 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1536 strings
1537 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1538 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1539 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1540 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1541 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1542 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1543 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1544 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1545 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1546 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1547 size_t
1548 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1549 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1550 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1551 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1552 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1553 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1554 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1555 cpu=power9
1556 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1557 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1558 segfault
1559 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1560 exiting detached thread
1561 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1562 for x32
1563 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1564 ERANGE
1565 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1566 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1567 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1568 dependencies in audit mode
1569 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1570 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1571 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1572 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1573 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1574 input
1575 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1576 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1577 preserve r2
1578 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1579 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1580 variables
1581 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1582 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1583 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1584 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1585 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1586 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1587 corruption in memset
1588
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1590Version 2.31
1591
1592Major new features:
1593
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1594* The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1595 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1596 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1597 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1598 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1599 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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1601* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1602 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1603 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1604 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1605
69ca4b54 1606* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 1607 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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1608 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1609
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1610* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1611
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1612* The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1613 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1614 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1615 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1616 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1617 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1618 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1619 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1620
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1621Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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1623* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1624 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1625 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1626 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1627 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1628 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
0b8c2f95 1629
12cbde1d 1630* The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
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1631 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1632 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1633
1634* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1635 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1636 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1637 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1638
1639* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1640 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1641 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1642 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1643 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1644 made this no longer practical.
1645
1646 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1647 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1648 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1649 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1650 release.)
1651
1652 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1653 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1654 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1655
1656 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1657 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1658 using clock_gettime instead.
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1660* The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1661 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1662 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1663 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1664 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1665
1666 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1667 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1668 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1669 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1670
1671 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1672 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1673 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1674 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1675 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1676 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1677
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1678 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1679 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1680 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1681 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1682 offset API.
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1684* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1685 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1686 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1688 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1689 configurations.
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1691* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1692 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1693 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1694 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1695 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1696
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1698 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1699 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1700 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1701 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1702 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1703 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1704 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1705
1706 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1707 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1708
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1709* System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1710 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1711 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1712 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1713 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1714 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1715
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1717
a1bd5f86 1718* It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
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1719 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1720 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1722* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1723 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1724 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1725
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1727
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1728 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1729 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1730
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1731 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1732 environment variable during program execution after a security
1733 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1734 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1735 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1737The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1739 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1740 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1741 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1742 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1743 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1744 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1745 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1746 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1747 linking failure
1748 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1749 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1750 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1751 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1752 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1753 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1754 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1755 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1756 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1757 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1758 7408-2005
1759 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1760 with localedef
1761 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1762 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1763 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1764 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1765 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1766 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1767 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1768 utmp entries
1769 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1770 ABSOLUTE ABI
1771 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1772 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1773 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1774 (stringop-overflow error)
1775 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1776 functions other can lead to crashes
1777 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1778 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1779 unconditionally
1780 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1781 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1782 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1783 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1784 still can fail with an error
1785 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1786 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1787 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1788 initialized correctly
1789 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1790 -frewrite-includes
1791 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1792 value to an unsigned
1793 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1794 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1795 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1796 protection
1797 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1798 ifunc variant.
1799 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1800 al. for Clang++
1801 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1802 (Slovenian)
1803 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1804 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1805 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1806 with -std=c11
1807 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1808 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1809 part
1810 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1811 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1812 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1813 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1814 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1815 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1818Version 2.30
1819
1820Major new features:
1821
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1822* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1823 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1824 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1825
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1826* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1827 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1829* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1830 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1831 to the callback function.
1832
51ea67d5 1833* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1836 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1837 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
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1841* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1842 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1843 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1844 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1845 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
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1847* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1848 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1849 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1850 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1851 link time reference, is gone.
1852
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1853* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1854 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1855 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1856 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1857 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1858 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1859 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1860 the clock choice at initialization time).
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1863 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1864 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
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1868* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1869 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1870 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1871 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1873 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1874 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1875 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1876 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1878* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1879 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1880 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1881 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1882 since glibc 2.17.
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1884* The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1885 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
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1887* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1888 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1889
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1890* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1891 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1892
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1893* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1894 BIND_NOW flag.
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1896* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1897 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1898 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
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1900* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1901 header have been removed.
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1903* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1904 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1905 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1906 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1911
1912 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1913 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1915Security related changes:
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1917 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1918 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1919 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1920 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1921 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1922 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1923 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1925 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1926 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1927 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1931 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1932 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1933 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1934 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1935 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1936 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1937 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1938 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1939 invalid input drops valid char
1940 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1941 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1942 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1943 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1944 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1945 malloc.h.
1946 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1947 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1948 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1949 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1950 functions
1951 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1952 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1953 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1954 for long double = double
1955 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1956 long double = double
1957 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1958 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1959 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1960 long timeouts
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1962 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1963 checking for NULL.
1964 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1965 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1966 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1967 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1968 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1969 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1970 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1971 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1972 not the default "nor"
1973 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1974 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1975 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1976 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1977 compiler barriers.
1978 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1979 unnecessary librt dependencies
1980 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1981 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1982 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1983 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1984 unsorted chunk
1985 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1986 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1987 to R_SPARC_H44
1988 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1989 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1990 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1991 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1992 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1993 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1994 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1995 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1996 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1997 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1998 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1999 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2000 was not used
2001 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2002 tests
2003 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2004 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2005 time_t changes
2006 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2007 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2008 kernels and break testing
2009 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2010 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2011 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2012 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2013 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2014 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2015 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2016 -O3 -march=skylake
2017 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2018 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2019 crash
2020 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2021 linked glibc
2022 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2023 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2024 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2025 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2026 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2027 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2028 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2029 always implemented in the same library
2030 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2031 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2032 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2033 testroot
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2037
2038Major new features:
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2041 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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2043* A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2044 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2045 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2046 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2047 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2048 configured location.
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424c4f60 2050* Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
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2052* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2053 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2054
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2055* For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2056 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2057 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2058 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2059 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2060 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2061 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2062 process actually does not use HTM).
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2064* The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2065 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2066 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2067 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2068 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2069 of the same name.
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2071* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2072 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2073 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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2075 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2076
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2077* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2078 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2079 supported:
2080 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2081 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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2083* strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2084 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2085 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2086 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2087 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2088 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2089 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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2091* As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2092 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2093 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2094
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2095Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2096
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2097* The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2098 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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2100* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2101 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2102 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2103 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2104
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2105* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2106 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2107 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2108 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2109 structures.
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2111* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2112 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2113 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2114 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2115 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2116 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2117
2118 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2119 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2120 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2121 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2122 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2123
2124 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2125 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2126 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2127
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2129
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2132* On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2133 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2134
2135 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2136 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2137
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2139
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2140 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2141 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2142 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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2145 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2146 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2147 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2148 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2149
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2150 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2151 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2152 or command injection issues in applications.
2153
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2156 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2157 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2158 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2159 thousands
2160 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2161 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2162 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2163 --param options)
2164 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2165 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2166 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2167 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2168 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2169 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2170 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2171 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2172 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2173 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2174 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2175 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2176 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2177 pointer argument is non-NULL
2178 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2179 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2180 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2181 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2182 multithreads call popen
2183 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2184 and pthread_create fails.
2185 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2186 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2187 constructor
2188 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2189 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2190 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2191 source tree
2192 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2193 float
2194 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2195 one error
2196 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2197 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2198 linker
2199 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2200 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2201 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2202 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2203 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2204 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2205 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2206 filesystems
2207 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2208 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2209 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2210 functions
2211 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2212 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2213 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2214 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2215 have wrong type
2216 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2217 wrong type
2218 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2219 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2220 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2221 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2222 threads
2223 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2224 start.S
2225 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2226 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2227 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2228 powerpc64le
2229 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2230 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2231 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2232 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2233 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2234 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2235 strftime
2236 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2237 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2238 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2239 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2240 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2241 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2242 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2243 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2244 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2245 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2246 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2247 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2248 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2249 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2250 tcache size
2251 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2252 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2253 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2254 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2255 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2256 (CVE-2018-19591)
2257 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2258 nearest rounding mode
2259 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2260 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2261 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2262 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2263 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2264 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2265 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2266 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2267 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2268 error
2269 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2270 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2271 using GCC 8
2272 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2273 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2274 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2275 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2276 ppc64le
2277 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2278 expected result
2279 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2280 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
2281 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2282 sigaltstack
2283 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2284 answers will be rejected)
2285 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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2289
2290Major new features:
2291
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2292* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2293 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2294 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2295 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2296 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2297 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2298 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2299 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2300 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2301 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2302 archive or binary locales.
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2304* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2305 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2306 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2307 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2308 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2309 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2310 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2311 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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2312 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2313 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2314 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2315 validated for i686.
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2317* The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2318 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2319 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2320 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2321 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2322 field) to indicate such support is required.
2323
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2324* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2325 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2326 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2327
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2328* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2329 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2330
2331 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2332 fMxaddfNx functions.
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2334 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2335 fMxsubfNx functions.
2336
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2337 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2338 fMxmulfNx functions.
2339
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2340 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2341 fMxdivfNx functions.
2342
e607a352 2343* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 2344 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 2345 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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2346 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2347 and Kashubian.
c553cd6f 2348
61c4aad7 2349* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 2350 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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2352* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2353 patches.
2354
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2355* The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2356 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2357 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2358 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2359 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2360 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2361 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2362 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2363
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2364* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2365 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2366 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2367 the fstatat64 function.
2368
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2369* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2370 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2371 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2372 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2373 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2374 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2375 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2376 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2377 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2378
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2379* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2380 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2381 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2382 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2383 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2384 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2385 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2386 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2387 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2388 results in a load failure now.
2389
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2390* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2391 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2392 <threads.h>:
2393
2394 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2395 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2396
2397 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2398 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2399
2400 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2401
2402 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2403 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2404
2405 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2406
2407 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2408
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2410
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2411* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2412 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2413 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2414
2415* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2416 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2417 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2418 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2419 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2420 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2421
2422* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2423 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2424 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2425 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2426 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2427 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2428 (Bug #1190.)
2429
2430* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2431 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2432 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2433 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2434 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2435 further explanation.
2436
2437 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2438 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2439 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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2441* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2442
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2443* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2444 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2445 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2446
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2447* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2448 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2449 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2450 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2451
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2452* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2453 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2454 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2455 for this function instead.
2456
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2457* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2458 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2459 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2460
2461* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2462 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2463 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2464 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2465
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2466* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2467 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2468 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2469 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2470 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2471
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2472* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2473 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2474 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2475 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2476 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2477 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2478 such as libgcrypt.
2479
2480* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2481 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2482 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2483 enabled.
2484
2485* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2486 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2487 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2488
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2489* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2490 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2491 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2492 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2493 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2494 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2495
2496 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2497 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2498 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2499 behavior in a future release.
2500
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2502
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2505Security related changes:
2506
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2507 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2508 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2509 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2510 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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2512 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2513 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2514
2515 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2516 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2517 Izbyshev.
2518
2519 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2520 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2521 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2522
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2525 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2526 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2527 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2528 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2529 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2530 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2531 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2532 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2533 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2534 14651
2535 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2536 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2537 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2538 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2539 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2540 conversion is given
2541 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2542 date
2543 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2544 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2545 scope with -O1 and higher
2546 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2547 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2548 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2549 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2550 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2551 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2552 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2553 horrible machine code)
2554 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2555 last constant.
2556 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2557 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2558 symbols
2559 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2560 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2561 defined
2562 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2563 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2564 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2565 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2566 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2567 fpscr.c'
2568 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2569 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2570 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2571 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2572 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2573 the base address
2574 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2575 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2576 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2577 open_verify
2578 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2579 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2580 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2581 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2582 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2583 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2584 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2585 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2586 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2587 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2588 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2589 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2590 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2591 dlopen
2592 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2593 AT_SECURE=1
2594 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2595 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2596 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2597 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2598 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2599 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2600 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2601 for Spanish with CLDR
2602 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2603 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2604 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2605 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2606 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2607 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2608 es_BO
2609 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2610 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
2611 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2612 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2613 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2614 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2615 dlopen failures
2616 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2617 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2618 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2619 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2620 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2621 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2622 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2623 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2624 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2625 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2626 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2627 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2628 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2629 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2630 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2631 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2632 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2633 makecontext
2634 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2635 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2636 required
2637 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2638 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2639 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2640 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2641 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2642 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2643 disabled
2644 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2645 failure
2646 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2647 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2648 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2649 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2650 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2651 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2652 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2653 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2654 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2655 and libc build with -Os)
2656 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2657 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2658 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2659 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2660 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2661 that changes /etc/passwd
2662 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2663 (CVE-2018-11237)
2664 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2665 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2666 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2667 posix/regcomp.c
2668 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2669 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2670 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2671 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2672 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2673 AT_SECURE
2674 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2675 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2676 parser.c
2677 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2678 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2679 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2680 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2681 directed rounding
2682 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2683 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2684 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2685 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2686 lookup
2687 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2688 interposition
2689 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2690 DSO boundaries.
2691 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2692 <linux/time.h>
2693 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2694 checking
2695 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2696 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2697 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2698 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2699 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2700 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2701 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2702 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2703 processors
2704 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2708
2709Major new features:
2710
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2711* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2712 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2713 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2714 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2715 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2716 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2717 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2718 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2719 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2720
ac817e08 2721* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2722 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2723 H.J. Lu from Intel.
20c7b195 2724
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2725* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2726
4cf82d23 2727* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
72aa6233 2728
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2729* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2730 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2731 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2732 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2733 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2734 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2735 from a security and performance perspective.
2736
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2737* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2738 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2739 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2740 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2741
81325b12 2742* On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
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2743 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2744 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2745 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2746 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2747
a23aa5b7 2748* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2749 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2750 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2751 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2752 _Float128.
2753
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2754* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2755 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2756 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2757
4bab0224 2758* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
59d2cbb1 2759
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2760* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2761 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2762 pkey_get.
2763
bad7a0c8
FW
2764* The copy_file_range function was added.
2765
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2766* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2767
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2768* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2769 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2770 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2771
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2772* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2773 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2774 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2775 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2776 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2777 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2778 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2779
2780 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2781 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2782 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2783 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2784 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2785 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2786 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2787
2788 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2789 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2790 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2791 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2792 respectively.
2793
2794 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2795 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2796 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2797 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2798
2799 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2800 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2801 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2802
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2803 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2804 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2805 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
4378b735 2806
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2807* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2808 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2809 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2810
2811 - rv64imac lp64
2812 - rv64imafdc lp64
2813 - rv64imafdc lp64d
2814
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2815Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2816
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2817* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2818 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2819 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2820 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2821 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2822 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2823 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2824 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2825 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2826 fix this.
2827
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FW
2828* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2829 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2830 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2831
2fc21aaa
FW
2832* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2833 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2834 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2835 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2836 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2837 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2838 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2839 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2840 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2841 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2842 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2843 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2844 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2845 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2846 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2847 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2848 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2849 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2850 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2851 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2852 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2853 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2854 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2855 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2856 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2857 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2858
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2859* On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2860 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2862* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2863 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2864 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2865 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2866 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2867 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2868 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2869
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2870* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2871 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2872 exp10l for these functions instead.
2873
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2874* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2875 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2876 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2877
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2878* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2879 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2880 ignored.
2881
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2882* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2883 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2884 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2885 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2886
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2887* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2888 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2889
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2890* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2891 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2892
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2893* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2894 programs.
2895
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2896* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2897
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2898* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2899 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2900 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2901 instead.
2902
2903 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2904 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2905 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2906 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2907 use, but predates the bits convention.
2908
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2909Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2910
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2911* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2912 subdirectory.
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2913
2914Security related changes:
2915
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2916 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2917 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2918 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2919 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2920 script.)
00cdcf5a 2921
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2922 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2923 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2924 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2925 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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2927 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2928 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2929 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2930 of service.
2931
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2932 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2933 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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2934 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2935
37ac8e63
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2936 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2937 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2938 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2939 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2940
8a0b17e4
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2941 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2942 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2943 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2944 Qualys.
2945
3ff3dfa5
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2946 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2947 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2948 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2949 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2950 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2951
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2952 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2953 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2954 current directory.
2955
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2956 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2957 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2958 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2959
4590634f
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2960 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2961 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2962 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2963
71aa429b
FW
2964 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2965 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2966 small, instead of NULL.
2967
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2968The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2969
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2970 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2971 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2972 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2973 locale
2974 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2975 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2976 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2977 cases
2978 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2979 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2980 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2981 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2982 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2983 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2984 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2985 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2986 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2987 "Bangla"
2988 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2989 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2990 width Latin characters
2991 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2992 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2993 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2994 letters
2995 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2996 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2997 (CVE-2009-5064)
2998 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2999 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3000 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3001 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3002 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3003 if malloc succeeded
3004 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3005 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3006 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3007 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3008 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3009 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3010 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3011 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3012 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3013 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3014 U+309A
3015 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3016 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3017 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3018 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3019 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3020 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3021 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3022 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3023 for Nicaragua
3024 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3025 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3026 are not found.
3027 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3028 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3029 access
3030 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3031 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3032 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3033 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3034 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3035 __regcall calling convention
3036 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3037 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3038 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3039 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3040 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3041 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3042 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3043 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3044 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3045 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3046 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3047 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3048 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3049 locale
3050 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3051 protector=all
3052 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3053 wcwidth
3054 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3055 consistency check failures
3056 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3057 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3058 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3059 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3060 PIE
3061 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3062 locales
3063 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3064 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3065 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3066 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3067 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3068 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3069 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3070 on memory allocation failure
3071 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3072 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3073 the suspect)
3074 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3075 default (i386)
3076 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3077 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3078 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3079 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3080 instead of EAI_NODATA
3081 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3082 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3083 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3084 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3085 implementation
3086 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3087 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3088 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3089 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3090 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3091 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3092 allocation in syscall loops)
3093 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3094 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3095 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3096 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3097 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3098 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3099 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3100 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3101 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3102 occur with -O3
3103 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3104 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3105 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3106 amounts)
3107 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3108 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3109 niu_NZ
3110 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3111 checks
3112 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3113 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3114 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3115 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3116 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3117 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3118 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3119 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3120 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3121 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3122 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3123 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3124 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3125 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3126 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3127 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3128 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3129 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3130 parsing after OOM
3131 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3132 object
3133 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3134 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3135 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
3136 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3137 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3138 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 3139 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
3140 ppc64le
3141 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3142 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3143 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3144 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3145 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3146 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3147 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3148 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3149 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3150 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3151 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3152 math_force_eval
3153 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3154 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3155 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3156 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3157 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3158 the svid compat wrapper
3159 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3160 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3161 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3162 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3163 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3164 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3165 --verbose.
3166 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3167 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3168 to 2.26
3169 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3170 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3171 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3172 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3173 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3174 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3175 (CVE-2017-15804)
3176 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3177 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3178 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3179 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3180 failure."
3181 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3182 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3183 -m32
3184 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3185 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3186 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3187 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3188 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3189 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3190 inside the ASCII printable range
3191 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3192 -mlong-double-64
3193 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3194 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3195 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3196 Internet
3197 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3198 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3199 backslash
3200 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3201 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3202 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3203 heaps in an arena
3204 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3205 networking interface
3206 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3207 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3208 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3209 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3210 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3211 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3212 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3213 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3214 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3215 order
3216 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3217 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3218 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3219 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3220 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3221 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3222 same as for Croatian
3223 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3224 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3225 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3226 for initial thread"
3227 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3228 SC_SSIZE_MAX
3229 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3230 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3231 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3232 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3233 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3234 (CVE-2017-1000408)
3235 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3236 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3237 modified in case of success
3238 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3239 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3240 success
3241 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3242 stack-protector=all
3243 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3244 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3245 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3246 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3247 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3248 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3249 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3250 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3251 adding it on top
3252 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3253 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3254 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3255 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3256 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3257 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3258 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3259 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3260 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3261 (CVE-2018-1000001)
3262 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3263 elision and tunables
3264 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3265 "invalid" exception
3266 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3267 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3268 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3269 exception
3270 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3271 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3272 power4
3273 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3274 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3275 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3276 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3277 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3278 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3279 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3280 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3281 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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3284Version 2.26
3285
2b2ccd0c
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3286Major new features:
3287
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3288* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3289 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3290 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3291 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3292 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3293 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3294 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3295
925fac77
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3296* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3297 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 3298 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
3299 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3300 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3301 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3302 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 3303
2b2ccd0c
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3304* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3305 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3306 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 3307
2b2ccd0c 3308* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 3309
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3310 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3311 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3312 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 3313
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3314 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3315 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3316 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3317 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3318 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 3319
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3320 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3321 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3322 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 3323
2b2ccd0c
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3324* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3325 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 3326
2b2ccd0c
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3327* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3328 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3329 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3330 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
f0be25b6 3331
2b2ccd0c
ZW
3332* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3333 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3334 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3335 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 3336
2b2ccd0c
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3337* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3338 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3339 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3340 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2e0bbbfb 3341
2b2ccd0c
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3342* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3343 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3344 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 3345
2b2ccd0c 3346* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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3347 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3348 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3349 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 3350
2b2ccd0c 3351 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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3352 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3353 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3354 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3355 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3356
3357 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3358 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3359 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3360 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3361 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3362 interfaces should be used instead.
f819dbea 3363
2b2ccd0c
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3364Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3365
3366* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3367 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3368 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3369 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3370 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3371 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3372 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3373 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3374
3375* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3376 removed.
3377
3378* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 3379 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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3380 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3381 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3382
3383* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3384 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3385 default.
3386
3387 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3388 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3389 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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3390 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3391 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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3392
3393 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3394 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3395 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3396 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3397
3398* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3399 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3400 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3401 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3402
3403* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3404 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 3405
6781d8e6
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3406* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3407 exported by accident.
3408
2b2ccd0c
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3409* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3410 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3411 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3412
3413* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3414 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3415 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3416 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3417
3418* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3419
3420* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3421
3422* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3423 free instead.
3424
3425* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3426 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3427
3428* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3429 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3430
3431* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3432 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3433 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3434 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3435 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3436 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3437 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3438 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3439
3440* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3441 synced with the kernel:
3442
3443 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3444 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3445
3446 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3447 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3448 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3449
3450 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3451 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3452
3453Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3454
3455* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3456 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3457 x86-32 and x86-64.)
3458
7e368000 3459* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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3461* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3462 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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3463
3464 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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3465 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3466 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3467 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 3468 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 3469
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3470Security related changes:
3471
e14a2772 3472* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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3473 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3474
3475* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3476 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3477
3478* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3479 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3480 (CVE-2010-3192).
3481
3482* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3483 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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3484
3485The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3486
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3487 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3488 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3489 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3490 fields
3491 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3492 (CVE-2010-3192)
3493 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3494 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3495 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3496 ld.bfd is available
3497 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3498 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3499 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3500 x86 and other generic code
3501 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3502 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3503 incorrect
3504 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3505 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3506 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3507 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3508 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3509 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3510 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3511 resolver
3512 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3513 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3514 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3515 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3516 chillu characters
3517 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3518 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3519 receiving data
3520 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3521 whitespace
3522 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3523 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3524 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3525 for Peru
3526 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3527 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3528 failures consistently
3529 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3530 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3531 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3532 frame-pointer on i386
3533 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3534 register
7f0d9e61 3535 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
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3536 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3537 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3538 generic c code is used
3539 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3540 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3541 around 4000
3542 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3543 (CVE-2017-12133)
3544 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3545 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3546 with -lieee
3547 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3548 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3549 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3550 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3551 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3552 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3553 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3554 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3555 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3556 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3557 remove()
3558 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3559 checked for errors.
3560 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3561 new posix_spawn implementation
3562 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3563 leads to lower CPU frequency
3564 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3565 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3566 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3567 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3568 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3569 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3570 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3571 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3572 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3573 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3574 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3575 not support gethostbyname4_r
3576 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3577 switching
3578 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3579 arenas
3580 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3581 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3582 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3583 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3584 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3585 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3586 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3587 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3588 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3589 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3590 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3591 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3592 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3593 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3594 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3595 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3596 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3597 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3598 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3599 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3600 retry value
3601 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3602 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3603 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3604 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3605 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3606 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3607 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3608 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3609 [21537] libc:
3610 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3611 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3612 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3613 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3614 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3615 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3616 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3617 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3618 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3619 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3620 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3621 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3622 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3623 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3624 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3625 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3626 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3627 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3628 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3629 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3630 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3631 issue on x86-64
3632 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3633 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3634 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3635 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3636 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3637 construction
3638 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3639 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3640 between_2_3
3641 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3642 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3643 conditions
3644 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3645 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3646 Hindi Locale
3647 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3648 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3649 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3650 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3651 locale
3652 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3653 leading to relocation crash
3654 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3655 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3656 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3657 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3658 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3659 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3660 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3661 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3662 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3663 locale
3664 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3665 locale
3666 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3667 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3668 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3669 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3670 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3671 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3672 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3673 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3674 strings
3675 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3676 protector=all
3677 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3678 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3679 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3680 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3681 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3682 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3683 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3684 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3685 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3686 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3687 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3688 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3689 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3690 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3691 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3692 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3693 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3694 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3695 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3696 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3697 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3698 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3699 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3700 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3701 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3702 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3703 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3704 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3705 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3706 with unicode 9.0
3707 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3708 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3709 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3710 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3711 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
58557c22 3712
d5b396c1 3713\f
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3714Version 2.25
3715
48789000
JM
3716* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3717 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3718 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3719 Library.
e720d3d9 3720
bf91be88
JM
3721* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3722 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3723 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
bf91be88
JM
3724 the GNU C Library.
3725
412cb261
JM
3726* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3727 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3728 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3729 the GNU C Library.
3730
c0307377
ZW
3731* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3732 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3733 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3734 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3735 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3736 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3737 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3738 will not.
3739
3740 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3741 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3742 many years.
3743
dbab6577
ZW
3744* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3745 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3746 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3747
3748 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3749 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3750 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3751 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3752 problem.
3753
ec94343f 3754* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
c0b43536
JM
3755 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3756 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3757
a292f45a
JM
3758* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3759 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3760 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3761 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3762 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3763 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3764 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3765 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3766 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3767 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3768 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3769 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3770
d942e95c
JM
3771* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3772
f82a4bdb
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3773 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3774
423c2b9d
JM
3775 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3776 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3777 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3778
55a38f82
JM
3779 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3780 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3781
525f8039
JM
3782 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3783 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3784
1e7c8fcc
JM
3785 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3786
29cb9293 3787 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3788
cc6a8d74
JM
3789 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3790 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3791
eaf5ad0b
JM
3792 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3793
eb3c12c7 3794 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3795 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3796
f3b904d9
JM
3797* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3798 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3799
cecbc796
NA
3800* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3801 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3802 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3803
ea1bd74d
ZW
3804* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3805 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3806 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3807 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3808 effects of the memory clear).
3809
b0216d3e
JM
3810* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3811 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3812 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3813 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3814
f3b904d9
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3815* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3816 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3817 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3818 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3819 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3820 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3821
92dcaa3e
FW
3822* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3823 have been added.
3824
705a79f8
FW
3825* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3826 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3827 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3828 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3829 as large as several megabytes.
3830
4d728087
FW
3831* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3832 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3833 been removed.
3834
e863cce5
FW
3835* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3836 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3837 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3838 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3839 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3840 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3841 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3842
7ec47a85
FW
3843* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3844 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3845 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3846 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3847
099191b1 3848* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3849 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3850 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3851 Internet.
3852
bbe989ee
FW
3853* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3854 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3855 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3856
b76e0659
FW
3857* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3858 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3859 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3860 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3861
3a2a1d2c
FW
3862* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3863 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3864 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3865 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3866 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3867
be728303
FW
3868* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3869 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3870 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3871 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3872 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3873
6815a33d
FW
3874* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3875 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3876 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3877 did not reflect that.
3878
022dfdce
SL
3879* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3880 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3881 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3882 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3883 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3884 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3885 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3886 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3887
23b5cae1
MG
3888* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3889 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3890 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3891 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3892
7715d3ab
SP
3893* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3894 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3895 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3896 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3897
0cea3587
SP
3898* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3899 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3900 guarantees.
3901
3902* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3903 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3904 make state changes.
3905
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3906Security related changes:
3907
fc82b0a2 3908* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3909 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3910 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3911 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3912 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3913
fc82b0a2
FW
3914* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3915 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3916 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3917 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3918 (CVE-2015-5180)
3919
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3920The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3921
fdb724f9 3922 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3923 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3924 protector-all
3925 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3926 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3927 before it started waiting
3928 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3929 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3930 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3931 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3932 wrong type
3933 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3934 library linked with pthread
3935 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3936 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3937 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3938 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3939 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3940 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3941 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
7f0d9e61 3942 when it shouldn't
4e054e6b
SP
3943 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3944 not
3945 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3946 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3947 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3948 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3949 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3950 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3951 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3952 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3953 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3954 termination
3955 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3956 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3957 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3958 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3959 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3960 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3961 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3962 causes a segmentation fault
3963 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3964 linking
3965 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3966 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3967 uninitialized GOT
3968 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3969 versions
3970 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3971 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3972 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3973 is always true.
3974 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3975 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3976 modes
3977 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3978 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3979 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3980 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3981 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3982 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3983 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3984 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3985 libpthread.a
3986 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3987 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3988 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3989 _res_hconf
3990 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3991 information.
3992 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3993 penalty
3994 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3995 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3996 cause transition penalty
3997 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3998 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3999 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4000 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4001 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4002 mcount.oS)
4003 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4004 Checking
4005 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4006 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4007 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4008 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4009 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4010 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4011 multi-arch
4012 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4013 (RES_USEBSTRING)
4014 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4015 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4016 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4017 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4018 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4019 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4020 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4021 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4022 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4023 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4024 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4025 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4026 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4027 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4028 glibc
4029 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4030 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4031 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4032 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4033 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4034 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4035 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4036 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4037 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4038 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4039 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4040 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4041 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4042 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4043 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4044 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4045 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4046 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4047 RES_USE_INET6
4048 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4049 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4050 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4051 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4052 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4053 wrong condition
4054 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4055 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4056 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4057 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4058 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4059 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4060 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4061 clang
4062 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4063 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4064 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4065 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4066 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
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4068Version 2.24
4069
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4070* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4071 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4072 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4073 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4074 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4075 architectures.
4076
b6ebba70
MF
4077* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4078 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4079 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 4080
7584a3f9
FW
4081* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4082 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4083
b49ab5f4
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4084* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4085 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4086 instead of “union wait”.
4087
ced8f893
SG
4088* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4089 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4090 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4091 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4092 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4093 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4094 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4095
2ba3cfa1
FW
4096* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4097 API.
4098
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4099* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4100 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4101 drop it.
6a54bcda 4102
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4103* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4104 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4105 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4106 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4107 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4108 extensions.
4109
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4110Security related changes:
4111
f5b3338d
FW
4112* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4113 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4114 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4115
4ab2ab03
FW
4116* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4117 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4118 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4119 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 4120
5171f307
FW
4121* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4122 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4123 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4124
bc779a1a
FW
4125* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4126 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4127 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4128
fab38231
FW
4129* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4130 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4131 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4132 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4133
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4134The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4135
3c4f81ec
CD
4136 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4137 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4138 of MS-DOS.
4139 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4140 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4141 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4142 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4143 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4144 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4145 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4146 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4147 CLDR data
4148 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4149 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4150 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4151 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4152 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4153 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4154 romanisation
4155 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4156 and +/-
4157 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4158 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4159 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4160 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4161 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4162 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4163 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4164 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4165 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4166 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4167 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4168 all locales
4169 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4170 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4171 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4172 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4173 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4174 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4175 execute
4176 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4177 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4178 -Wsystem-headers
4179 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4180 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4181 Romanian locale data
4182 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4183 symbol
4184 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4185 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4186 language
4187 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4188 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4189 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4190 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4191 machine
4192 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4193 description
4194 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4195 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4196 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4197 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4198 when using RTLD_NEXT
4199 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4200 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4201 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4202 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4203 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4204 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4205 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4206 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4207 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4208 Excavator core
4209 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4210 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4211 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4212 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4213 double range
4214 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4215 part zero incorrect
4216 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4217 equality tests
4218 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4219 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4220 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4221 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4222 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4223 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4224 glibc-2.22
4225 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4226 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4227 'tst-numeric.c'
4228 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4229 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4230 low part
4231 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4232 result
4233 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4234 unaligned stack
4235 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4236 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4237 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4238 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4239 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4240 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4241 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4242 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4243 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4244 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4245 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4246 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4247 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4248 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4249 modes
4250 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4251 server addresses
4252 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4253 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4254 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4255 response to getaddrinfo
4256 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4257 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4258 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4259 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4260 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4261 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4262 sometimes incorrect
4263 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4264 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4265 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4266 record types
4267 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4268 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4269 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4270 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4271 (CVE-2016-3075)
4272 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4273 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4274 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4275 resolving symbols
4276 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4277 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4278 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4279 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4280 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4281 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4282 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4283 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4284 gethosts
4285 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4286 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4287 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4288 (CVE-2016-3706)
4289 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4290 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4291 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4292 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4293 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4294 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4295 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4296 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4297 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4298 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4299 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4300 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4301 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4302 executable
4303 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4304 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4305 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4306 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4307 XPG3
4308 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4309 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4310 (CVE-2016-4429)
4311 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4312 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4313 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4314 AS not supporting AVX512
4315 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4316 sNaN argument
4317 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4318 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4319 argument
4320 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4321 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4322 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4323 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4324 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4325 eax=0x80000001
4326 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4327 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4328 subnormals
4329 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4330 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4331 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4332 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4333 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4334 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4335 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4336 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4337 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4338 input
4339 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4340 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4341 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4342 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4343 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4344 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4345 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4346 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4347 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4348 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4349 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4350 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4351 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4352 double rounding
4353 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4354 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4355 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4356 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4357 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4358 (Only arm/linux)
4359 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4360 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4361 fallbacks
4362 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4363 "invalid" exceptions
4364 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4365 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4366 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4367 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4368 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4369 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4370 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4371 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4372 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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4374Version 2.23
4375
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4376* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4377 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4378 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4379 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4380 89, 16061, and 18568.
4381
2359035a
FW
4382* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4383 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4384 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4385 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4386 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4387 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4388 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4389
8b7b7f75
MW
4390* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4391 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4392 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4393
2eecc8af
FW
4394* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4395 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4396 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4397 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4398 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4399 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4400 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4401
a62719ba
FW
4402* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4403 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4404 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4405 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
7f0d9e61 4406 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 4407 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
4408 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4409 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 4410
bc148ca1
MF
4411* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4412 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4413 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4414 independent of the GNU C Library.
4415
1c70b6f1
ZW
4416* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4417 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 4418
eed3e1eb
JM
4419* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4420 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4421 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4422 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4423 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4424 Linux kernel.
4425
1efad39b
SL
4426* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4427 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 4428
d709042a
JM
4429* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4430 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4431 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4432 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4433 defining their own copy.
4434
b08b4218
JM
4435* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4436 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4437 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 4438
8f5e8b01
JM
4439Security related changes:
4440
6400ae6e
FW
4441* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4442 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4443
4444* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4445 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4446 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4447 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4448 (CVE-2015-8777)
4449
4450* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4451 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4452
4453* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4454 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4455
8f5e8b01
JM
4456* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4457 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 4458 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 4459
e9db92d3
CD
4460* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4461 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4462 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4463 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4464 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4465 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4466 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4467 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4468 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4469 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4470 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4471 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4472 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4473
ad372e29 4474The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 4475
ad372e29
AZ
4476 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4477 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4478 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4479 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4480 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4481 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4482 use `mkstemp'
4483 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
7f0d9e61 4484 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
ad372e29
AZ
4485 overflow/underflow errors
4486 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4487 overflow/underflow
4488 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4489 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4490 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4491 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4492 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4493 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4494 are not contiguous
4495 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4496 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4497 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4498 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4499 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4500 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4501 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4502 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4503 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4504 all exceptions
4505 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4506 arguments
4507 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4508 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4509 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4510 should include
4511 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4512 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4513 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4514 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4515 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4516 GNU/Linux
4517 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4518 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4519 arguments
4520 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4521 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4522 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4523 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4524 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4525 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4526 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4527 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4528 rounding results
4529 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4530 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4531 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4532 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4533 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4534 fails
4535 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4536 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4537 block boundary
4538 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4539 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4540 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4541 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4542 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4543 4.7?
4544 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4545 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4546 (related to lock elision)
4547 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4548 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4549 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4550 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4551 (CVE-2015-8779)
4552 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4553 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4554 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4555 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4556 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4557 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4558 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4559 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4560 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4561 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4562 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4563 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4564 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4565 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4566 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4567 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4568 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4569 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4570 contains a vector instruction exception.
4571 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4572 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4573 locales
4574 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4575 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4576 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4577 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4578 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4579 missing break ?
4580 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4581 32bit processes
4582 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4583 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4584 infinity
4585 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4586 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4587 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4588 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4589 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4590 be forced unloaded
4591 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4592 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4593 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4594 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4595 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4596 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4597 statically too large
4598 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4599 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4600 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4601 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4602 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4603 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4604 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4605 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4606 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4607 FUTEX_SHARED
4608 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4609 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4610 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4611 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4612 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4613 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4614 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4615 opendir()
4616 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4617 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4618 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4619 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4620 signgam
4621 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4622 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4623 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4624 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4625 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4626 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4627 dependencies
4628 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4629 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4630 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4631 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4632 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4633 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4634 (CVE-2015-8776)
4635 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4636 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4637 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4638 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4639 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4640 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4641 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4642 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4643 contention
4644 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4645 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4646 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4647 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4648 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4649 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4650 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4651 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4652 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4653 rounding modes
4654 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4655 ILP32
4656 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4657 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4658 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4659 threshold
4660 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4661 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4662 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
7f0d9e61 4663 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
ad372e29
AZ
4664 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4665 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4666 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4667 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4668 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4669 pthread_setaffinity_np
4670 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4671 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4672 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4673 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4674 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4675 prelink
4676 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4677 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4678 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4679 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4680 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4681 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4682 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4683 bits/mathcalls.h
4684 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4685 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4686 for C99-based standards
4687 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4688 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4689 math-only
4690 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4691 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4692 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4693 disabled
4694 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4695 "inexact" exceptions
4696 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4697 arguments
4698 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4699 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4700 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4701 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4702 rules
4703 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4704 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4705 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4706 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4707 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4708 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4709 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4710 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4711 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4712 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4713 from 32bit
4714 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4715 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4716 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4717 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4718 subnormals
4719 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4720 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4721 error on 32-bit architectures
4722 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4723 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4724 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4725 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4726 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4727 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4728 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4729 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4730 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4731 -Os
4732 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4733 CPU's.
4734 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4735 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4736 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4737 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4738 architectures
4739 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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1c7a4a51
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4741Version 2.22
4742
4743* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4744
3df5cd98 4745 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
MF
4746 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4747 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4748 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4749 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4750 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4751 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4752 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4753 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4754 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4755 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4756 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4757 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4758 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4759 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4760 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4761 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4762 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
FW
4763 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4764 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4765
f7fba805
SL
4766* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4767 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4768
2959eda9
AS
4769* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4770 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4771 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4772 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4773 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4774 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4775
42261ad7
FW
4776* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4777 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4778 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4779 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4780 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4781
afcd9480
AM
4782* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4783 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4784 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4785
4a4839c9
AO
4786* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4787 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4788 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4789 17998.
4790
b13b96ca
AS
4791* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4792 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4793 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4794
4795* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4796 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4797 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4798 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4799 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4800 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4801 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4802 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4803
4804* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4805 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4806 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4807 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4808
4809* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4810 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4811 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4812
4813* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4814 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4815
4816* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4817 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4818 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4819
a03ba363 4820 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4821 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4822 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1c7a4a51 4823\f
58b930ae
SP
4824Version 2.21
4825
4826* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4827
042e1521 4828 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
PP
4829 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4830 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4831 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4832 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4833 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4834 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4835 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4836 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4837 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4838 17892.
4839
46d54873
FW
4840* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4841 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4842 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4843 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4844 intended.
042e1521
CD
4845
4846* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4847 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4848 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4849 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4850 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4851 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4852
522e6ee3
CLT
4853* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4854
d3b00f46
AZ
4855* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4856 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4857 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4858
8d2c0a59
AZ
4859* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4860 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4861 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4862 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4863 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4864 effects being visible outside transactions.
4865
dc400d7b
RE
4866* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4867 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4868
0f9dfe04
L
4869* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4870
a39208bd
CD
4871* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4872 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4873 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4874 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4875 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4876
a5357b7c
JL
4877* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4878 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4879
e54db0ea
AM
4880* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4881 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4882 format.
11e3417a 4883
4863355a
JM
4884* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4885 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4886 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4887
a4ecc9eb
JM
4888* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4889 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4890
0d560bbf 4891* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4892
4893* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4894 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4895 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4896 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4897
4898* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4899 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4900
4901* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4902 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4903 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4904 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4905 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4906 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4907 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4908 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4909 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4910 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4911 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4912 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4913 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4914
4915 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4916 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4917 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4918 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4919 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 4920\f
d5b396c1
AM
4921Version 2.20
4922
4923* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4924
6a9350c8
JM
4925 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4926 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4927 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4928 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4929 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4930 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4931 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4932 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4933 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4934 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4935 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4936 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4937 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4938 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4939 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4940
95ee7fb1
SL
4941* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4942 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4943 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4944 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4945 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4946 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
95ee7fb1
SL
4947 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4948 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4949 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4950 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4951
0961f7e1
JL
4952* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4953 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4954 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4955 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4956 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4957
f940b965
RE
4958* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4959
d0f5b3f8
JM
4960* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4961 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4962
d6fe5e58
JM
4963* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4964 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4965 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4966 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4967 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4968 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4969
464263cc
JM
4970* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4971 from ports.
c941736c
JM
4972
4973* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4974 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4975 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4976 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4977 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4978 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4979 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4980
4981* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4982
4983* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4984 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4985 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4986 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4987 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4988 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4989 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4990
4991* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4992 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4993 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4994 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4995 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4996
4997* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4998 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4999 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
5000
5001* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5002 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5003 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5004 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
5005
5006* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5007 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5008 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5009 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5010 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5011 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5012 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5013 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
5014
5015* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5016 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5017 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5018 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5019 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5020 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5021 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5022 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5023 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
5024
5025* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5026 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5027 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5028 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5029 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 5030 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
5031
5032* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5033 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5034 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5035 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
5036\f
5037Version 2.19
5038
5039* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5040
fd2f9486
JM
5041 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5042 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5043 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5044 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5045 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5046 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5047 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5048 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5049 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5050 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
5051 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5052 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5053 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5054 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5055 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
5056 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5057 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5058 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 5059
11520a57
CD
5060* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5061 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5062
2fe16229
CD
5063* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5064 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5065 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
5066 extension which uses __block.
5067
303e567a
SP
5068* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5069 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5070 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5071 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5072 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5073
141f3a77
SP
5074* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5075 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5076 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5077 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5078 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
5079
5080* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5081 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5082 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5083 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5084 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
5085
5086* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5087 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5088 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5089
ba0d798c
WN
5090* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5091 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5092 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5093 #15856, #15857).
5094
7cbcdb36
SP
5095* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5096 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5097
82bab04b 5098* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 5099 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 5100
c5f840fd
MB
5101* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5102
3e181dda
CD
5103* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5104 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 5105
3e181dda 5106* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 5107
8a05c252
CL
5108* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5109
6055173a
JM
5110* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5111 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5112 for which the C library was built.
5113
b125d3e5
JM
5114* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5115 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5116 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5117 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5118 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5119 in the following circumstances:
5120
5121 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5122
5123 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5124 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5125
d4f66d37
JM
5126* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5127 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5128
3e181dda
CD
5129* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5130 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 5131
ffb89e53
AO
5132* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5133
5d29ccce
SP
5134* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5135 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5136
8b7d57cd 5137* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
5138
5139* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 5140
fd712ef3 5141* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 5142
c688b419
JM
5143* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5144 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5145 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5146 disable some of those declarations.
5147
7011c262 5148* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
5149 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5150 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
5151
5152* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5153 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
5154
5155* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5156 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5157 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5158 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5159 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5160 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5161 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5162 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5163 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5164 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5165 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5166 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5167 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
5168\f
5169Version 2.18
5170
5171* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5172
17db6e8d 5173 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
5174 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5175 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
5176 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5177 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5178 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5179 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5180 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5181 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5182 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5183 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5184 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5185 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5186 15755, 15759.
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5187
5188* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5189 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5190 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5191 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5192 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5193 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 5194
5b535ac4
AS
5195* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5196 #15078).
5197
1cef1b19
AS
5198* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5199 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 5200
55e4107b
SP
5201* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5202 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5203 destructor calls to glibc.
5204
e5c74c63
SP
5205* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5206 output.
5207
5208* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5209 non-x86 architectures.
5210
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JM
5211* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5212
5213* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5214
5215* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5216 Richard Henderson.
5217
5218* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5219
5220* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5221 Richard Henderson.
5222
5223* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5224 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5225
8cfdb7e0
SP
5226* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5227
57267616
TS
5228* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5229 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 5230
c204ab28
SP
5231* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5232 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 5233
0748546f
PE
5234* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5235 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5236 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5237
61dd6208
SP
5238* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5239 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5240 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
5241
5242* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5243 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5244 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5245 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5246 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
5247
5248* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5249 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5250
5251* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
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5252\f
5253Version 2.17
5254
5255* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5256
80ceeaee 5257 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
5258 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5259 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5260 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5261 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5262 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5263 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5264 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5265 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5266 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5267 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5268 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5269 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5270 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5271 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 5272
95b4f1b6
SE
5273* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5274
14bc93a9
JL
5275* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5276 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 5277
b54eb3cb
JM
5278* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5279 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5280
7e2bd01f
MS
5281* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5282
08f43f9b
AK
5283* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5284 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5285 zEnterprise z196.
5286 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5287
84b3fd84
FW
5288* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5289 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5290 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5291
815e6fa3
GB
5292* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5293 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5294
400726de
MK
5295* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5296 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5297
7aab07e4 5298* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 5299 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 5300
15d0da8c
WS
5301* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5302 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5303
3cc3ef96
RM
5304* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5305 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
5306 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5307 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 5308
b54eb3cb
JM
5309* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5310 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5311
85429b1a 5312* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 5313 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
5314 default.
5315
b54eb3cb
JM
5316* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5317 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5318 information in --help and --version output.
5319
050af9c4
SP
5320* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5321 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5322 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5323
89a3ad0b
AO
5324* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5325 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5326 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5327 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5328 when the mode is enabled.
5329
6e6249d0
RM
5330* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5331 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5332 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5333 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5334 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5335 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5336 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 5337
d9286582
NK
5338* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5339 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
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5340\f
5341Version 2.16
5342
5343* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5344
a8133e19
JM
5345 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5346 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5347 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5348 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5349 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5350 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5351 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5352 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5353 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5354 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5355 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5356 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5357 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5358 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5359 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5360 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5361 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5362 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5363 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5364 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5365 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5366 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5367 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 5368
a086b4d6
L
5369* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5370 configuring glibc with:
5371 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 5372 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
5373 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5374
380d7e87
UD
5375* ISO C11 support:
5376
5377 + define static_assert
5378
5379 + do not declare gets
5380
5381 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5382
5383 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5384 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5385 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5386 implementation.
8d44e150 5387
74033a25 5388 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
5389
5390 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 5391
ac097f5c
UD
5392 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5393
16dd419d
UD
5394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5395
9dc4e1fb 5396* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
5397
5398* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
5399
5400* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5401 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
5402
5403* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5404 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
5405
5406* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5407 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5408 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5409 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5410 existing applications.
ffb7875d 5411
21708942 5412* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
ffb7875d
JM
5413 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5414 before 2.6.
83678f76 5415
edb00e4d
RH
5416* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5417 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5418 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5419
83678f76 5420* New locales: mag_IN
7b44a2df
RM
5421
5422* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5423 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5424 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5425 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5426 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
JM
5427
5428* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5429
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5430* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5431 and Will Schmidt.
47e452cf
JM
5432
5433* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5434
5435* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5436 without a previously built glibc.
5437
5438* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5439 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5440
5441* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5442 now supported for ARM processors.
5443
5444* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5445 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5446 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5447
5448* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
5449
5450* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5451 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5452 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5453 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
929cc14e
AJ
5454
5455* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5456 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5457 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5458 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
ee9247c3
CD
5459
5460* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5461 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5462 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5463 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5464 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5465
5466* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5467 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5468 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5469 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 5470\f
e80fab37 5471Version 2.15
11988f8f 5472
c0244a9d
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5473* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5474
aebae053
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5475 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5476 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5477 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5478 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5479 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5480 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5481 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 5482
11988f8f
UD
5483* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5484 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
5485
5486* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5487 and support for initgroups lookups.
5488 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
5489
5490* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5491 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
5492
5493* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5494 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 5495
fc2ee42a
LD
5496* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5497 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 5498 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 5499
d42964a0 5500* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
5501 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5502
1d3e4b61
UD
5503* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5504 for x86-64 and x86-32.
093ecf92
LD
5505 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5506
c55fbd1e
UD
5507* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a0f33f99
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5509
5510* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
684ae515
UD
5512
5513* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0ac5ae23
UD
5515
5516* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
d9a4d2ab
UD
5518
5519* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5520 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5521
5522* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5523 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
78239589
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5524
5525* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
e188ebba
UD
5526
5527* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5528 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 5529
f0b264f1
AZ
5530* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5531 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 5532
6b64057b 5533* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 5534\f
dded88cd 5535Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 5536
50934221
UD
5537* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5538
553149f6 5539 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 5540 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 5541 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 5542 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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5543 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5544 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5545 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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5546 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5547 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 5548 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 5549
7b57bfe5
UD
5550* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5551 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5552 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 5553 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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5554
5555 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
a0446976
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5556 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5557 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
7b57bfe5
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5558 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5559
c6489db3 5560* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 5561 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 5562
72d1dddb 5563* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 5564 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
bc469bea
UD
5565
5566* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
a9171047
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5567
5568* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7d17596c
UD
5570
5571* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5572 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5573 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5574 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
9f94d2ea 5575\f
4828935d
LM
5576Version 2.13
5577
ac2b484c
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5578* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5579
c30b7ee2
UD
5580 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5581 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5582 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5583 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5584 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 5585
10b3bedc 5586* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 5587
ac2b484c 5588* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 5589
e9f82e0d
UD
5590* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5591 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 5592 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828935d 5593\f
ee1a7fab
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5594Version 2.12
5595
d36b9613
UD
5596* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5597
2e0fb521
DL
5598 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5599 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5600 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5601 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
fc97f36d
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5602 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5603 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5604 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 5605 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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5607* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
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5609* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5610
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5611* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5612
5613* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5614 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5616
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5618 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5619 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5620 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5621 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5622
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5626
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5628
5629 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5630 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5631 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5632 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5633 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5634 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5635
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5636* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5637 mkostemps64
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5638 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5639
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5641 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5642
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5643* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5644 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5645
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5646* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5647
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9d36a6c4 5649 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5650 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5652
9d36a6c4 5653 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5654 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5655
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5656* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5657 strstr, strcasestr.
5658 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5659
5660* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5661 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5662
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5663* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5664 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5665
5666* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5667 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5668
5669* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5670 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5671 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5672 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5673 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5674 necessity is every process again.
5675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5676
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5677* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5678 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5679
5680* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5681 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5682
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5683* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5684 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5685 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5686
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5690
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5692
5693 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5694 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5695 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5696 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5697 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5698
bb066545 5699* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5700 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5701
425ce2ed 5702* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5703 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5704
1fdd89a7 5705* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5706 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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5708* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5709 now in POSIX.
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1f04d005 5711* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5712 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5714* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5715 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5716
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5717* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5718 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5719
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5720* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5721 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5722
5723* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5724 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5726
735be400 5727* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
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84aa52d7 5729* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5731
5732* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5733 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5734 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5735
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5736* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5738
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5739* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5740 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5741 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5742 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5743 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5744 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5746Version 2.9
5747
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5749
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5751 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5752 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5753 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5754 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
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5757 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5758
5759* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5760 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5762* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5763 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5765* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5766 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5767 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5768
5769* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5770 Implemented by Eric Blake.
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5773
5774* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5775 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5777* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5778 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5779 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5780 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5781
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5782* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5783 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5785* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5786 Sinhala)
48b22986 5787 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5789* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5791Version 2.8
5792
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5793* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5794
5795 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5796 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5797 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5798 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5799 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5800 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5801 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5802
e038616f 5803* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
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77751669 5805* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5807* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5808 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5809
5810* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5811
5812* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5813 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5814
5815* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5816 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5817
5818* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5819 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5820 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5821
5822* Faster memset for x86-64.
5823 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5824
5825* Faster memcpy on x86.
5826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5827
5828* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5829 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3b32d8a2 5830
7f0d9e61 5831* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5832 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5834Version 2.7
5835
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5836* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5837
5838 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5839 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5840 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5841 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5842 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5843
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5844* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5845 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5846
5847* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5848
5849* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5850 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5851 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5852
5853* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5854 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5855
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5857 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5858
5859* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5860
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5861* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5863
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5864* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5865 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5866
5867* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5868 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5869
5870* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5871
5872* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5875* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5876 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5877 yo_NG.
5878
5879+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5884* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5885
5886 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5887 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5888 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5889 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5890 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5891 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5892 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5893 4702, 4858
5894
bce20b9a 5895* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5897* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5898
b21fa963 5899* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5902
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5903* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5904
5905 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5906 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5907 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5908 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5909 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5910 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5911 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5912 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5913 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5914
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5916 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5917 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5919* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5920 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5921
871b9158 5922* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
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5924* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5926* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5927 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5928 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5929 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5930 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5931
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5933 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5934 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5935 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5936
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5937* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5938 Ulrich Drepper.
5939
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5940* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5941
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5942* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5943 Ulrich Drepper.
5944
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5945* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5946
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5947* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5948 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5951
5952* More overflow detection functions.
5953
5954* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5955 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5957 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5958 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5959 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5960 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5961 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5962 by Masahide Washizawa.
5963
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5965 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5967* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5968 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5969 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5970 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5972* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5973 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5974
5975* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5976
5977* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5978 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5979 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5980
5981* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5982 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5983
5984* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5985 for compatibility with some other systems.
5986
5987* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5989Version 2.3.6
5990
5991* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5992
5993 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5994 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5995 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5996 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5997 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5998 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5999
5a82c748 6000 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6002* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6003
6004* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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6007
6008* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6009
6010 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6011 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6012 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6013 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6014
5a82c748 6015 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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6018
6019* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6020 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6022* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6023 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6024 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6025
6026* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6027 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6028
0325dd20 6029* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
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6030 efficiently.
6031 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6032
6033* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6034 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6035 handling data.
6036
6037* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6038 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 6039 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6040
6041* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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6042 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6043
6044* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6045 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6046 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6047 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6048
6049* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6050 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6051 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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6052 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6053
6054* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6055 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6056 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6057 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6058 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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6060Version 2.3.3
6061
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6062* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6063 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6064
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6065* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6066 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 6067
69be6aaf 6068* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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6069 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6070
6071* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6073
6074* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6075 by Roland McGrath.
6076
c5af724c 6077* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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6078 and Ulrich Drepper.
6079
6080* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6081 RFC 3484.
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6083Version 2.3.2
6084
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6085* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6086 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6087 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6088 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6089 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6090 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6091 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6092 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6093 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6094
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6095* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6096 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6097 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6098
6099* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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6100
6101* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6102 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
52a16e58 6103
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6104* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6105 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6106
52a16e58 6107* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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6109* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6110 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
9ef0a840 6111
7f0d9e61 6112* With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
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6113 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6114 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6115 of weak definition in ld.so.
6116
6117* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6118 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6119
6120* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6121 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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6125* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6126 charsets.
6127
6128* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6129 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 6130
bb0ec5bd 6131* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 6132 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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6133
6134* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6135 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 6136
bb0ec5bd 6137* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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6138 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6139 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6140
6141* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6142 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 6143
bb0ec5bd 6144* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 6145 implementation of regex.
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6146
6147* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6148 Unicode 3.2.
be45f421 6149
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6150* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6151 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 6152
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6153* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6154 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6155 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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6156
6157* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 6158 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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6159
6160* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6161 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6162 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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6163
6164* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6165 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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6166
6167* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6168 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6169 and Ulrich Drepper.
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6170
6171* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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6173Version 2.2.6
6174
6175* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6176 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6177
6178* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6179 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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6181Version 2.2.5
6182
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6183* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6184 128-bit long double format.
a8ae31c2 6185
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6186* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6187 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 6188
ad2e4f18 6189* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
a8ae31c2 6190
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6191* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6192
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6193* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6194 as well.
6195
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6196* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6197 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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6198
6199* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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6201Version 2.2.4
6202
2995f70e 6203* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 6204 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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6205
6206* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6207 support Unicode 3.1.
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6208
6209* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6210 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 6211
69d5f925 6212* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 6213
69d5f925 6214* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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6215 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6216 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6217
6218* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6219 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6220
6221* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6222 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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6223
6224* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
33996419 6225\f
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6226Version 2.2.3
6227
1746f2b0 6228* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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6229 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6230 in float, double, and long double format.
6231
f128331c 6232* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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6233 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6234 128-bit long double format.
07f951e4 6235
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6236* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6237 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6238 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6239 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6240
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6241* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6242 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6243 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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6244
6245* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6246 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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6247
6248* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6249 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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6250
6251* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6252 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6253 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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6254
6255* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6256 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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6257
6258* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6259 of functions for Linux/x86.
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6260
6261* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
2ace5721 6262\f
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6263Version 2.2.2
6264
464d97ec 6265* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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6266 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6267 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6268 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6269 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6270 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6271 other headers.
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6272
6273* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6274 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6275
6276* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6277 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6278 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6279 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6280
6281* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6282 locales. While
6283
6284 locale -a
6285
6286 only lists the names of the supported locales
6287
6288 locale -a --verbose
6289
6290 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6291 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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6293Version 2.2.1
6294
6295* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6296 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6297 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6298 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6299 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6300
6301 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6302
6303 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6304
6305 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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6306
6307* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6308 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6309 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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6310
6311* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6312 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6313
6314* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6315 changed from the default "C" locale.
6316
6317* The usual bug fixes.
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6319Version 2.2
6320
08a2e4a0
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6321* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6322 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6323 is in progress.
6324
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6325* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6326
793bd4d9 6327* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
2e92188d 6328
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6329 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6330 obviously requires a database library being available.
6331
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6332* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6333
abbffdf9 6334* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
01c771d0 6335
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6336* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6337 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6338
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6339* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6340
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6341* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6342 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6343 and Mark Kettenis.
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6344
6345 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6346 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6347 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 6348
a00c3ca9 6349 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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6350 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6351
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6352* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6353 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6354 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6355
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6356* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6357 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6358 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6360
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6361 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6362 structures for the wide character tables.
6363
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6364* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6365
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6366* The utmp daemon has been removed.
6367
6368* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6369
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6370* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6371 and Yutaka Niibe.
6372
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6373* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6374
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6375* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6376
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6377* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6378
6379* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6380
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6381* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6382
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6383* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6384 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6385 implemented for Linux.
6386
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6387* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6388 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6389 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6390 versions.
6391
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6392* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6393 Masahide Washizawa.
6394
8f3f1e09 6395* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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6396\f
6397Version 2.1.3
6398
6399* bug fixes
6400
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6401\f
6402Version 2.1.2
6403
6404* bug fixes
6405
28f540f4 6406\f
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6407Version 2.1.1
6408
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6409* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6410
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6411* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6412
407d26b7 6413* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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6414
6415* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6416
407d26b7 6417* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 6418
407d26b7 6419* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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6420
6421* Update timezone data files.
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6423* lots of charmaps corrections
6424
6425* some new locale definitions and charmaps
6426
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6428Version 2.1
6429
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6430* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6431 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6432 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6433 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6434 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6435 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6436
c84142e8 6437* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 6438 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 6439
1fb05e3d 6440* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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6441 symbol level.
6442
7f0d9e61 6443* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
c84142e8 6444 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 6445
cbdee279 6446* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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6447
6448* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 6449 numbers.
377a515b 6450
cbdee279 6451* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 6452
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6453* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6454 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 6455
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6456* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6457 library.
6458
e61abf83 6459* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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6460 functions from ISO C 9X.
6461
6462* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6463 real valued functions.
e61abf83 6464
a5a0310d 6465* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 6466
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6467* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6468
6469* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 6470
440d13e2 6471* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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6472
6473* Optimized string functions have been added.
6474
6475* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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6476
6477* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 6478
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6479* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6480 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6481
6482 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6483 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6484
0dee6738 6485 user system wall
48244d09 6486
0dee6738 6487 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 6488
0dee6738 6489 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 6490
0dee6738 6491 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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6493 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6494
6495 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6496
6497 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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6499 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6500 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 6501 horribly slow.
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6503 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6504 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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6505
6506* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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6507
6508* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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6509
6510* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6511 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6512
6513* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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6515* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6516 Bambrough.
6517
6518* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6519 latest draft standards.
6520
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6521* Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6522
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6523* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6524~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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48244d09 6526alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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6527argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6528argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6529argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6530argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6531argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6532argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6533argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6534argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6535argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6536argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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6537authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6538authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6539authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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6540backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6541backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6542backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6543cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
6544cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6545cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6546cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6547cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6548cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6549capget NEW: kernel
6550capset NEW: kernel
6551carg NEW: ISO C 9x
6552cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
6553cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
6554casin NEW: ISO C 9x
6555casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6556casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6557casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6558casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6559casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6560catan NEW: ISO C 9x
6561catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6562catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6563catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6564catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6565catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6568ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6569ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6570ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6571ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6572ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6573cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
6574cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
6575cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
6576cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
6577cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6578cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6579clearerr_locked REMOVED
6580clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6581clog NEW: ISO C 9x
6582clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6583clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6584clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6585clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
6586clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
6587conj NEW: ISO C 9x
6588conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
6589conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
6590cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
6591cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
6592cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
6593cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
6594cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6595cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6596creal NEW: ISO C 9x
6597crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6598creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6599creat64 NEW: LFS
6600csin NEW: ISO C 9x
6601csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6602csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6603csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6604csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6605csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6606csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
6607csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6608csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6609ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
6610ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6611ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6612ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6613ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6614ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6616ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6617endutxent NEW: Unix98
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6619exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6620exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6621exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6622exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6623exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6624fattach NEW: STREAMS
6625fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6626fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
6627fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
6628fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
6629feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6630fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6631fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6632fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6633feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6634feof_locked REMOVED
6635feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6636ferror_locked REMOVED
6637fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6638fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6639fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6640fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6641feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6642fflush_locked REMOVED
6643ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
6644ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
6645fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
6646fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6647fileno_locked REMOVED
6648fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6649fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6650fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6651fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6652fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6653fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6654fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6655fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6656fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6657fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6659fputc_locked REMOVED
6660fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6661fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6662freopen64 NEW: LFS
6663fseeko NEW: Unix98
6664fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6665fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6666fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6667fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6668ftello NEW: Unix98
6669ftello64 NEW: LFS
6670ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6671ftw64 NEW: LFS
6672fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6673gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6674gamma_r REMOVED
6675gammaf_r REMOVED
6676gammal_r REMOVED
6677getchar_locked REMOVED
6678getdate NEW: Unix98
6679getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6680getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6681getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6682getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6685getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6686getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6688getutxid NEW: Unix98
6689getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6691globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6692gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6693gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6694grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6695host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6697iconv_close NEW: iconv
6698iconv_open NEW: iconv
6699if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6700if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6701if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6702if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6703in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6704in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6705inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6706isastream NEW: STREAMS
6707iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6709key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6710key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6711key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6712key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6713key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6714key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6715key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6716key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6718llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6719llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6720llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6721llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6722llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6723log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6724log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6725log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6726lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6727lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6728lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6729lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6730lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6731lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6732lseek64 NEW: LFS
6733makecontext NEW: Unix98
6734mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6735mmap64 NEW: LFS
6736moncontrol REMOVED
6737modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6738nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6739nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6740nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6741nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6742nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6743nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6745netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6747nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6748nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6750nftw64 NEW: LFS
6751open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6752passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6754pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6755pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6756pread NEW: Unix98
6757pread64 NEW: LFS
6758printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6759printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6760profil_counter REMOVED
6761pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6762pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6763ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6764ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6765putc_locked REMOVED
6766putchar_locked REMOVED
6767putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6768putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6769putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6770pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6772pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6773readdir64 NEW: LFS
6774readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6775remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6776remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6777remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6778round NEW: ISO C 9x
6779roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6780roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6781rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6782scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6783scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6784scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6785scandir64 NEW: LFS
6786sendfile NEW: kernel
6787setcontext NEW: Unix98
6788setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6789setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6791sigignore NEW: Unix98
6792sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6793sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6794sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6795sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6796sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6797sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6798sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6799sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6800statfs64 NEW: LFS
6801statvfs NEW: Unix98
6802statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6803strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6805strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6806strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6807svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6809svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6810swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6811tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6812tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6813tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6814tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6815tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6816tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6817trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6818truncate64 NEW: LFS
6819truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6820truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6821umount2 NEW: kernel
6822unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6823updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6824user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6825utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6826versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 6827versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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6828waitid NEW: Unix98
6829wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6830wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6831wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6832wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6833wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6834wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6835wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6836wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6837wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6838wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6839write_profiling REMOVED
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6841xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6842xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6843xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6844xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6845xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6846xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6847xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6848xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6849xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6850xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6851xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6852xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6853xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6854xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6855~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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6857Version 2.0.6
6858
6859* more bug fixes
6860
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6862Version 2.0.5
6863
6864* more bug fixes
6865
6866* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6867
6868* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6869
6870* rewrite of cbrt function
6871
6872* update of timezone data
6873\f
6874Version 2.0.4
6875
6876* more bug fixes
6877\f
6878Version 2.0.3
6879
6880* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6881\f
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6883
6884* more bug fixes
6885
6886* add atoll function
6887
6888* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6890* fix math functions
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6892Version 2.0.1
6893
6894* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6895
6896* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6897
6898* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6899 the ELF dynamic loader.
6900
6901* support for parallel builds is improved
6902\f
40a4b79f 6903Version 2.0
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6905* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6906 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6907 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6908
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6909* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6910 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6911 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6912 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6913 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6914 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6915 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6916 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6917 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6918 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6919 files in the ELF format.
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6920
6921* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6922 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6923
6924* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6925 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6926 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6927 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6928 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6929 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6930 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6931 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6932 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6933 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6934 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6936* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6937 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6938 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6939 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6940 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6941
f7eac6eb 6942* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6943 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6944 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6945 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6946 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6947
6948* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6950* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6951 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6952 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6953 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6954 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6955 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6956 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6957 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6958 NSS services available.
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6960* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6961 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6962 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6963
6964* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6965 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6966 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6967
6968* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6969 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6970 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6971 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6972
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6973* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6974 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6975 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6976
6977* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6978 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6979 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6980
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6981* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6982 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6983
f7eac6eb 6984* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6985 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6986 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7f0d9e61 6987 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
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6988
6989* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6990 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6991 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6992
71733723 6993* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6994 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6995 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6996 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6997 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6998 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6999 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 7000 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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7001
7002* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7003 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7004 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7005 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7006 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7007 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7008 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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7009
7010* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7011 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7012 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7013 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7014 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7015 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7016
7017* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7018 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7019
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7020* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7021 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7022 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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7024* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7025
7026* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7027 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7028 their use is discouraged.
7029
7030* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7031 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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7033* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7034 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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7035
7036* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7037 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7038
7039* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7040 see <dirent.h>.
7041
7042* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7043 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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7044 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7045 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7046 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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7048* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7049 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7050 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7051 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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7052
7053* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7054 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7055
7056* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7057 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7058 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7059 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7060 number generator.
7061
7062* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7063 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7064
7065* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7066 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7067
71733723 7068* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 7069 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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7070 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7071 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
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7073* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7074
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7075* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7076 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7077 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7078
7079* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7080 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 7082* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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7083 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7084 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7085 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7086
7087* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7088 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7089 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7090 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7091 programs already written to use it.)
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7092
7093* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7094 constants.
7095
7096* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7097 with 4.4 BSD.
7098
7099* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7100 a given effective group ID.
7101
7102* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7103 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7104 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7105 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7106
7107* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 7108 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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7109 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7110 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7111 doing the same thing.
7112
7113* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7114 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7115
7116* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 7117 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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7118
7119* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7120
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7121* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7122 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7123 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 7124 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 7125 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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7126
7127* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7128 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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7129
7130* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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7131 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7132 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7133 function.
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7134
7135* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7136
7137* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7138 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7139 strings.
7140
7141* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7142 and writing the utmp file.
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7143
7144* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7145 Thorsten Kukuk.
7146
7147* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7148 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7149 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7150
7151* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7152 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7153
7154* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7155 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7156 specification.
7157
7158* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7159 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7160 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7161 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7162
7163* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7164 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7165 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7166
7167* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7168 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7169 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7170 expression matcher.
7171
7172* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7173 functionality.
7174
7175* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7176 by Ulrich Drepper.
7177
7178* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7179
7180* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7181 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7182 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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7183\f
7184Version 1.09
7185
7186* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7187
7188* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7189 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7190
7191* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7192 want to put themselves in the background.
7193
7194* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7195 run without an operating system.
7196
7197* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7198 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7199
7200* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7201 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7202
7203* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7204
7205* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7206 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7207 have YP (aka NIS).
7208
7209* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7210 conventions.
7211
7212* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7213 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7214\f
7215Version 1.08
7216
7217* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7218 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7219 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7220
7221* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7222 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7223
7224* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7225 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7226
7227* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7228
7229* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7230
7231* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7232 compatibility.
7233
7234* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7235 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7236 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7237
7238* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7239
7240* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7241 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7242 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7243
7244* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7245 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7246 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7247 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7248 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7249 on a block).
7250
7251* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7252 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7253 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7254 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7255 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7256 cross-compiler.
7257
7258* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7259 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7260\f
7261Version 1.07
7262
7263* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7264 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7265
7266* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7267 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7268 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7269
7270* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7271 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7272 address of the last character written.
7273
7274* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7275 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7276
7277* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7278 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7279
7280* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7281 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7282 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7283 you dereference this pointer.
7284
7285* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7286 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7287
7288* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7289 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7290 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7291 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7292
7293* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7294 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7295 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7296 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7297\f
7298Version 1.06
7299
7300* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7301 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7302 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7303 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 7304 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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7305
7306* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7307
7308* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7309
7310* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7311 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7312
7313* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7314 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7315
7316* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7317 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7318
7319* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7320 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7321 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7322 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7323 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7324
7325* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7326 to the error code in `errno'.
7327
7328* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7329 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7330 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7331 malloc'd string.
7332
7333* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7334 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7335 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7336
7337* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7338 uniquely-named temporary file.
7339\f
7340Version 1.05
7341
7342* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7343 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7344 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7345
7346* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7347 characters.
7348
7349* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7350 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7351
7352* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7353\f
7354Version 1.04
7355
7356* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7357 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7358 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7359 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7360
7361* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7362 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7363 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7364
7365* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7366 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7367
7368* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7369 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7370 made itself into a shared library.
7371
7372* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7373 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7374
7375* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7376 with limited length.
7377
7378* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7379
7380* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7381
7382* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7383
7384* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7385 function for traversing a directory tree.
7386
7387* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7388 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7389 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7390 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7391
7392* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7393 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7394
7395* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7396
7397* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7398 things to your strings.
7399
7400* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7401
7402* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7403 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7404 supporting those systems.
7405
7406* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7407 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7408 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7409 configuration files.
7410
7411* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7412 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7413
7414* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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7415 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7416 in <strings.h>.)
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7417
7418* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7419 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7420 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7421 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7422 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7423 required storage is not available.
7424
7425* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7426 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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7427
7428* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7429 latest files released from Berkeley.
7430\f
7431----------------------------------------------------------------------
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7433
7434 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
7435 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7436 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
7437 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
7438
7439 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7440 of this document, or of portions of it,
7441 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7442 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
7443\f
7444Local variables:
7445version-control: never
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