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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
2b778ceb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.35
9
10Major new features:
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12* Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
13 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
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15* Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
16 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
17 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
18 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
19 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
20 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
21 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
22 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
23 glibc, and must be installed.
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25* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
26 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
27 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
28
29 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
30 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
31
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32 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
33 fMxfmafNx functions.
34
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35* <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
36 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
37 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
38 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
39 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
40 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
41
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42* The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
43 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
44
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45* The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
46 macro in <tgmath.h>.
47
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48Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
49
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50* The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
51 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
52
53 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
54 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
55
56 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
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58Changes to build and runtime requirements:
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60 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
61
62Security related changes:
63
64 [Add security related changes here]
65
66The following bugs are resolved with this release:
67
68 [The release manager will add the list generated by
69 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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72Version 2.34
73
74Major new features:
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76* In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
77 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
78 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
79 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
80 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
81 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
82 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
83 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
84 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
85 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
86 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
87 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
88 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
89 potentially exposing application bugs.
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91* When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
92 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
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93 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
94 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
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96* Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
97 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
57fb02b2 98 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
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99 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
100 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
101 Arm SVE.
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103* The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
104 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
105 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
106
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107* On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
108 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
109 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
110 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
111
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112* The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
113
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114* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
115 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
116 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
117 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
118 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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120* On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
121 --disable-scv configure option.
122
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123* Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
124 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
125 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
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126 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
127 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
128 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
129 version of 5.1.
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131* The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
132 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
133 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
134 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
135 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
136 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
137 that directory.
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139* On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
140 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
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142* The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
143 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
144 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
145 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
146 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
147 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
148 is currently a GNU extension.
149
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150* On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
151 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
152
60744950 153* The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
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154 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
155 although it is also present in other systems.
60744950 156
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157* The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
158 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
159 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
160 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
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162Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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164* The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
165 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
166 instead.
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168* The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
169 programs should use the equivalent standard function
170 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
171
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172* The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
173 programs should use the equivalent standard function
174 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
175
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176* The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
177 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
178
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179* The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
180
181* Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
182 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
183 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
184 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
185 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
186 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
187 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
188 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
189 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
190 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
191 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
192
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193* Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
194 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
195 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
196 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
197 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
198 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
199 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
200 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
201
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202* The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
203 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
cfdaa29f 204 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
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205 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
206 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
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207 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
208 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
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210* Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
211 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
212 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
213 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
214 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
215 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
216 upgrade or downgrade process.
217
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218* The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
219 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
220 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
221
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222* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
223 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
224 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
225 no longer have any effect on malloc.
226
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227* Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
228 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
229 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
230 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
231 this functionality back.
232
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233* The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
234 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
235 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
236 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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238* The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
239 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
240 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
241 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
242 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
243 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
244 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
245 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
246 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
247
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248Changes to build and runtime requirements:
249
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250* On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
251 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
252 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
253 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
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254
255Security related changes:
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257 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
258 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
259 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
260 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
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262 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
263 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
264 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
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266 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
267 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
268 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
269
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270The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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272 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
273 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
274 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
275 given integer (closefrom)
276 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
277 name containing multi-byte character(s)
278 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
279 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
280 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
281 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
282 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
283 random thread
284 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
285 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
286 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
287 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
288 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
289 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
290 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
291 manual is incorrect
292 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
293 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
294 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
295 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
296 pthread_create and dlopen
297 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
298 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
299 when non-root user changes priority
300 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
301 dlopen
302 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
303 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
304 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
305 ordered correctly
306 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
307 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
308 data.
309 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
310 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
311 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
312 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
313 MULTI_PAGE_ALIASING
314 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
315 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
316 the right free implementation
317 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
318 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
319 shm_open to pick wrong directory
320 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
321 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
322 protector=all)
323 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
324 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
325 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
326 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
327 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
328 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
329 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
330 uninitialized
331 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
332 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
333 system calls
334 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
335 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
336 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
337 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
338 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
339 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
340 deployments
341 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
342 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
343 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
344 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
345 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
346 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
347 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
348 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
349 is present
350 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
351 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
352 protector=all
353 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
354 information for the current directory
355 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
356 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
357 dl_runtime_resolve_*
358 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
359 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
360 containers
361 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
362 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
363 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
364 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
365 INT_MAX
366 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
367 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
368 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
369 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
370 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
371 tries resolving them lazily
372 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
373 libthread_db
374 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
375 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
376 argument
377 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
378 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
379 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
380 not set ENOMEM
381 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
382 randomization
383 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
384 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
385 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
386 IS_ERR_VALUE
387 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
388 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
389 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
390 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
391 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
392 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
393 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
394 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
395 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
396 with n >= 0x80000000
397 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
398 thread never allocated anything
399 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
400 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
401 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
402 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
403 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
404 on older kernels
405 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
406 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
407 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
408 AMD64 cpus
409 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
410 terminator
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413Version 2.33
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415Major new features:
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417* The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
418 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
419 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
420
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421* The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
422 to change argv[0] string.
423
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424* The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
425 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
426 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
427 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
428 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
429 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
430 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
431 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
432 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
433
434* The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
435 information and library search path diagnostics.
436
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437* The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
438 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
439 larger than fit in an integer.
440
96203980 441* Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
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443* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
444 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
445
446 - rv32imac ilp32
447 - rv32imafdc ilp32
448 - rv32imafdc ilp32d
449
450 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
451 2.28.
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453* A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
454 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
455 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
456 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
457 fortification.
458
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459Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
460
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461* The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
462 mallinfo2 instead.
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464* When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
465 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
466 Instead, the default implementation is used.
467
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468* The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
469 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
470 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
471 prlimit.
472
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473* Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
474 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
475 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
476
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477* On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
478 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
479 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
480 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
481 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
482 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
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485 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
486 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
487 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
488 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
489 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
490 loaded.
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495 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
496 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
497 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
498 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
499 perform any adjustments.
500
501* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
502 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
503 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
504 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
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508Security related changes:
509
d7f4f3f5 510 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
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512 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
513 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
514 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
515
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516 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
517 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
518 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
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521 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
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523 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
524 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
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528 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
529 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
530 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
531 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
532 AT_EACCESS
533 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
597d0267 534 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
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535 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
536 "haswell" platform subdirectory
537 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
538 with GCC
539 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
540 stack-protector=all
541 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
542 cases
543 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
544 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
545 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
546 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
547 changing gnuc version
548 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
549 incorrect
550 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
551 bits
552 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
553 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
554 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
555 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
556 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
557 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
558 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
559 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
560 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
561 too much stack space
562 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
563 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
564 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
565 with optimization.
566 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
567 anymore
568 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
569 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
570 non-FMA4 system
571 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
572 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
573 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
574 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
575 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
576 getaddrinfo
577 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
578 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
579 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
580 fault
581 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
582 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
583 at the end of a memory mapping
584 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
585 by the caller to the kernel
586 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
587 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
588 declarations for __sigsetjmp
589 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
590 monotonic clocks
591 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
592 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
593 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
594 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
595 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
596 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
597 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
598 one element
599 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
600 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
601 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
602 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
603 lazy bound
604 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
605 PI mutexes
606 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
607 not safe
608 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
609 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
610 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
611 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
612 platform
613 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
614 startup code
615 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
616 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
617 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
618 protected
619 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
620 only since 2.31
621 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
622 locked
623 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
624 aligned
625 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
626 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
627 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
628 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
629 detection logic
630 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
631 pclose(3))
632 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
633 setup
634 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
635 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
636 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
637 work
638 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
639 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
640 [27177] dynamic-link:
641 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
642 work
643 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
644 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
645 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
646 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
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651Major new features:
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653* Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
654 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
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655 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
656
657* New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
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660 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
661 Three ABIs are supported:
662
663 - arc-linux-gnu
664 - arc-linux-gnuhf
665 - arceb-linux-gnu
666
4d3a77c7 667 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
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668 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
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671 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
672
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4d3a77c7 674 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
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676 this option.
677
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679 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
680 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
681
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684 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
685
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686* The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
687 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
688 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
689 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
690 libpthread.
691
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694 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
695 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
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697 NULL for an invalid signal number.
698
699 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
700 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
701
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704 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
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705 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
706 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
707 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
708
709 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
710 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
711
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713 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
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714 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
715 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
716 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
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717 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
718 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
719 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
720 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
721 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
722 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
723 BTI compatible.
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728 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
729 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
730 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
731 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
732 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
733 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
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736 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
737 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
738 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
739 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
740 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
741 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
4d3a77c7 742 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
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746 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
747 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
748 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
749 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
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751* The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
752 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
753 was not declared in any header file.
754
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755* The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
756 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
757 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
758 sigaction functions instead.
759
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761 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
762
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763* The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
764 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
765 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
766 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
767 strsignal instead.
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770 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
4d3a77c7 771 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
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773 strerror or strerror_r instead.
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776 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
777 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
778 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
779
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780* Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
781 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
782 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
783 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
784 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
785 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
786 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
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789 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
790 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
791 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
792 flavor of secure RPC.)
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794* The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
795 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
796 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
797 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
798 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
799 object, to enable the hooks.
800
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801* The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
802 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
803 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
804 LDAP.
805
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809 long double redirects.
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811Security related changes:
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814 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
815 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
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817 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
818 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
819 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
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822 expanding ~user has been fixed.
823
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825 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
826 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
827 TALOS-2020-1019).
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832 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
833 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
834 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
835 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
836 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
837 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
838 filtee has constructor
839 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
840 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
841 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
842 character entities for infinity & pi
843 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
844 segfaults in applications
845 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
846 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
847 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
848 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
849 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
850 function with -mlong-double-64
851 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
852 binding
853 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
854 ld.so.cache
855 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
856 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
857 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
858 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
859 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
860 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
861 linker
862 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
863 dynamically loaded dsos
864 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
865 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
866 access
867 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
868 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
869 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
870 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
871 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
872 stale configuration forever
873 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
874 (CVE-2020-10029)
875 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
876 defaults to PIE
877 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
878 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
879 (CVE-2020-6096)
880 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
881 on 32 bit and old kernel
882 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
883 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
884 Occitan
885 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
886 amount of sigset_t bytes
887 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
888 strings
889 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
890 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
891 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
892 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
893 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
894 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
895 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
896 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
897 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
898 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
899 size_t
900 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
901 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
902 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
903 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
904 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
905 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
906 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
907 cpu=power9
908 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
909 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
910 segfault
911 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
912 exiting detached thread
913 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
914 for x32
915 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
916 ERANGE
917 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
918 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
919 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
920 dependencies in audit mode
921 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
922 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
923 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
924 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
925 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
926 input
927 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
928 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
929 preserve r2
930 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
931 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
932 variables
933 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
934 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
935 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
936 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
937 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
938 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
939 corruption in memset
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944Major new features:
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947 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
948 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
949 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
950 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
951 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
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953* The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
954 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
955 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
956 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
957
69ca4b54 958* The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
3ef5e118 959 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
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961
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962* New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
963
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965 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
966 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
967 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
968 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
969 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
970 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
971 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
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974
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975* The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
976 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
977 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
978 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
979 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
980 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
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983 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
984 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
985
986* We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
987 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
988 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
989 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
990
991* The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
992 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
993 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
994 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
995 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
996 made this no longer practical.
997
998 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
999 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1000 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1001 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1002 release.)
1003
1004 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1005 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1006 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1007
1008 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1009 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1010 using clock_gettime instead.
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1013 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1014 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1015 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1016 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1017
1018 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1019 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1020 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1021 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1022
1023 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1024 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1025 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1026 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1027 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1028 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
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1031 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1032 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1033 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1034 offset API.
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1036* SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1037 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1038 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
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1040 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1041 configurations.
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1043* If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1044 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1045 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1046 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1047 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1048
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1050 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1051 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1052 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1053 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1054 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1055 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1056 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1057
1058 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1059 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1060
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1062 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1063 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1064 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1065 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1066 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
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1069
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1072 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
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1074* The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1075 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1076 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1077
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1080 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1081 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1082
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1083 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1084 environment variable during program execution after a security
1085 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1086 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1087 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
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1089The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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1091 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1092 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1093 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1094 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1095 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1096 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1097 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1098 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1099 linking failure
1100 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1101 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1102 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1103 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1104 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1105 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1106 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1107 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1108 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1109 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1110 7408-2005
1111 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1112 with localedef
1113 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1114 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1115 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1116 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1117 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1118 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1119 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1120 utmp entries
1121 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1122 ABSOLUTE ABI
1123 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1124 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1125 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1126 (stringop-overflow error)
1127 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1128 functions other can lead to crashes
1129 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1130 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1131 unconditionally
1132 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1133 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1134 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1135 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1136 still can fail with an error
1137 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1138 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1139 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1140 initialized correctly
1141 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1142 -frewrite-includes
1143 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1144 value to an unsigned
1145 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1146 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1147 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1148 protection
1149 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1150 ifunc variant.
1151 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1152 al. for Clang++
1153 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1154 (Slovenian)
1155 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1156 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1157 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1158 with -std=c11
1159 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1160 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1161 part
1162 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1163 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1164 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1165 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1166 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1167 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
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1170Version 2.30
1171
1172Major new features:
1173
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1174* Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1175 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
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1176 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1177
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1178* The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1179 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
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1181* The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1182 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1183 to the callback function.
1184
51ea67d5 1185* On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
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1187* Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1188 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1189 nan_TW, lzh_TW.
1190
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1191* The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1192
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1193* Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1194 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1195 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1196 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1197 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1198
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1199* The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1200 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1201 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1202 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1203 link time reference, is gone.
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1205* Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1206 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1207 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1208 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1209 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1210 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1211 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1212 the clock choice at initialization time).
1213
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1214* On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1215 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1216 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1217
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1218Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1219
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1220* The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1221 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1222 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1223 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
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1224 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1225 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1226 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1227 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1228 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
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1230* The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1231 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1232 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1233 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1234 since glibc 2.17.
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1237 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1238
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1239* Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1240 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1241
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1242* The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1243 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1244
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1245* With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1246 BIND_NOW flag.
1247
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1248* Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1249 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1250 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1251
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1252* On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1253 header have been removed.
1254
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1255* The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1256 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1257 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1258 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
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1261
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1263
1264 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1265 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1267Security related changes:
1268
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1269 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1270 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1271 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1272 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1273 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1274 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1275 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
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1277 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1278 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1279 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
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1283 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1284 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1285 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1286 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1287 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1288 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1289 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1290 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1291 invalid input drops valid char
1292 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1293 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1294 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1295 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1296 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1297 malloc.h.
1298 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1299 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1300 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1301 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1302 functions
1303 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1304 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1305 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1306 for long double = double
1307 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1308 long double = double
1309 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1310 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1311 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1312 long timeouts
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1314 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1315 checking for NULL.
1316 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1317 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1318 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1319 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1320 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1321 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1322 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1323 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1324 not the default "nor"
1325 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1326 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1327 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1328 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1329 compiler barriers.
1330 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1331 unnecessary librt dependencies
1332 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1333 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1334 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1335 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1336 unsorted chunk
1337 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1338 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1339 to R_SPARC_H44
1340 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1341 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1342 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1343 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1344 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1345 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1346 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1347 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1348 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1349 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1350 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1351 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1352 was not used
1353 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1354 tests
1355 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1356 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1357 time_t changes
1358 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1359 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1360 kernels and break testing
1361 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1362 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1363 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1364 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1365 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1366 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1367 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1368 -O3 -march=skylake
1369 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1370 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1371 crash
1372 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1373 linked glibc
1374 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1375 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1376 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1377 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1378 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1379 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1380 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1381 always implemented in the same library
1382 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1383 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1384 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1385 testroot
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1389
1390Major new features:
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1393 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
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1396 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1397 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1398 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1399 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1400 configured location.
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1404* The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1405 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
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1408 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1409 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1410 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1411 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1412 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1413 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1414 process actually does not use HTM).
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1417 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1418 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1419 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1420 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1421 of the same name.
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1423* The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1424 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1425 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
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1429* Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1430 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1431 supported:
1432 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1433 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
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1436 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1437 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1438 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1439 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1440 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1441 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
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1444 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1445 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
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1450 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
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1452* The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1453 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1454 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1455 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
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1457* For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1458 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1459 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1460 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1461 structures.
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1463* An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1464 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1465 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1466 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1467 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1468 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1469
1470 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1471 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1472 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1473 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1474 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1475
1476 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1477 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1478 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
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1481
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1485 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1486
1487 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1488 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
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1491
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1492 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1493 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1494 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
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1496 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1497 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1498 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1499 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1500 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1501
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1502 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1503 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1504 or command injection issues in applications.
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1508 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1509 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1510 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1511 thousands
1512 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1513 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1514 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1515 --param options)
1516 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1517 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1518 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1519 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1520 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1521 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1522 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1523 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1524 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1525 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1526 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1527 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1528 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1529 pointer argument is non-NULL
1530 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1531 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1532 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1533 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1534 multithreads call popen
1535 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1536 and pthread_create fails.
1537 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1538 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1539 constructor
1540 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1541 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1542 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1543 source tree
1544 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1545 float
1546 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1547 one error
1548 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1549 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1550 linker
1551 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1552 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1553 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1554 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1555 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1556 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1557 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1558 filesystems
1559 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1560 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1561 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1562 functions
1563 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1564 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1565 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1566 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1567 have wrong type
1568 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1569 wrong type
1570 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1571 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1572 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1573 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1574 threads
1575 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1576 start.S
1577 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1578 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1579 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1580 powerpc64le
1581 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1582 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1583 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1584 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1585 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1586 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1587 strftime
1588 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1589 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1590 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1591 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1592 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1593 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1594 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1595 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1596 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1597 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1598 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1599 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1600 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1601 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1602 tcache size
1603 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1604 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1605 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1606 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1607 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1608 (CVE-2018-19591)
1609 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1610 nearest rounding mode
1611 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1612 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1613 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1614 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1615 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1616 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1617 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1618 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1619 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1620 error
1621 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1622 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1623 using GCC 8
1624 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1625 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1626 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1627 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1628 ppc64le
1629 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1630 expected result
1631 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1632 x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
1633 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1634 sigaltstack
1635 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1636 answers will be rejected)
1637 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
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1641
1642Major new features:
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1644* The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1645 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1646 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1647 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1648 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1649 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1650 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1651 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1652 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1653 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1654 archive or binary locales.
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1656* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1657 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1658 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1659 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1660 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1661 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1662 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1663 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
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1665 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1666 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1667 validated for i686.
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1670 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1671 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1672 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1673 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1674 field) to indicate such support is required.
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1676* Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1677 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1678 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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1680* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1681 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1682
1683 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1684 fMxaddfNx functions.
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1686 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1687 fMxsubfNx functions.
1688
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1689 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1690 fMxmulfNx functions.
1691
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1692 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1693 fMxdivfNx functions.
1694
e607a352 1695* Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
df467d22 1696 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
9145f033 1697 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
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1699 and Kashubian.
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61c4aad7 1701* Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
e607a352 1702 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
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1704* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1705 patches.
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1708 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1709 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1710 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1711 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1712 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1713 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1714 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
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1716* The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1717 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1718 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1719 the fstatat64 function.
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1721* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1722 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1723 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1724 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1725 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1726 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1727 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1728 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1729 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
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1732 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1733 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1734 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1735 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1736 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1737 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1738 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1739 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1740 results in a load failure now.
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1742* Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1743 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1744 <threads.h>:
1745
1746 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1747 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1748
1749 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1750 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1751
1752 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1753
1754 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1755 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1756
1757 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1758
1759 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
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1763* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1764 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1765 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1766
1767* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1768 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1769 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1770 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1771 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1772 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1773
1774* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1775 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1776 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1777 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1778 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1779 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1780 (Bug #1190.)
1781
1782* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1783 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1784 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1785 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1786 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1787 further explanation.
1788
1789 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1790 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1791 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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1793* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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1795* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1796 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1797 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
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1799* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1800 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1801 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1802 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
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1804* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1805 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1806 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1807 for this function instead.
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1809* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1810 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1811 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1812
1813* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1814 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1815 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1816 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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1818* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1819 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1820 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1821 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1822 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
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1825 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1826 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1827 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1828 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1829 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1830 such as libgcrypt.
1831
1832* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1833 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1834 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1835 enabled.
1836
1837* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1838 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1839 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1840
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1842 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1843 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1844 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1845 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1846 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1847
1848 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1849 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1850 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1851 behavior in a future release.
1852
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1854
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1857Security related changes:
1858
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1859 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1860 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1861 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1862 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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1864 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1865 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1866
1867 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1868 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1869 Izbyshev.
1870
1871 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1872 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1873 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1874
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1877 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1878 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1879 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1880 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1881 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1882 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1883 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1884 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1885 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1886 14651
1887 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1888 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1889 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1890 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1891 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1892 conversion is given
1893 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1894 date
1895 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1896 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1897 scope with -O1 and higher
1898 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1899 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1900 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1901 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1902 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1903 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1904 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1905 horrible machine code)
1906 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1907 last constant.
1908 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1909 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1910 symbols
1911 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1912 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1913 defined
1914 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1915 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1916 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1917 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1918 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1919 fpscr.c'
1920 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1921 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1922 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1923 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1924 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1925 the base address
1926 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1927 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1928 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1929 open_verify
1930 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1931 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1932 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1933 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1934 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1935 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1936 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1937 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1938 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1939 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1940 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1941 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1942 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1943 dlopen
1944 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1945 AT_SECURE=1
1946 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1947 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1948 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1949 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1950 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1951 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1952 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1953 for Spanish with CLDR
1954 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1955 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1956 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1957 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1958 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1959 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1960 es_BO
1961 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1962 CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
1963 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1964 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1965 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1966 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1967 dlopen failures
1968 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1969 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1970 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1971 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1972 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1973 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1974 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1975 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1976 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1977 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1978 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1979 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1980 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1981 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1982 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1983 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1984 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1985 makecontext
1986 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1987 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1988 required
1989 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1990 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1991 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1992 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1993 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1994 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1995 disabled
1996 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1997 failure
1998 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1999 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2000 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2001 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2002 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2003 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2004 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2005 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2006 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2007 and libc build with -Os)
2008 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2009 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2010 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2011 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2012 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2013 that changes /etc/passwd
2014 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2015 (CVE-2018-11237)
2016 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2017 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2018 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2019 posix/regcomp.c
2020 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2021 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2022 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2023 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2024 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2025 AT_SECURE
2026 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2027 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2028 parser.c
2029 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2030 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2031 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2032 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2033 directed rounding
2034 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2035 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2036 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2037 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2038 lookup
2039 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2040 interposition
2041 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2042 DSO boundaries.
2043 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2044 <linux/time.h>
2045 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2046 checking
2047 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2048 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2049 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2050 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2051 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2052 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2053 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2054 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2055 processors
2056 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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2059Version 2.27
2060
2061Major new features:
2062
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2063* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2064 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 2065 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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2066 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2067 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2068 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2069 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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2070 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2071 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
9d7a3741 2072
ac817e08 2073* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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2074 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2075 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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2077* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2078
4cf82d23 2079* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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2081* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2082 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2083 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2084 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2085 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2086 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2087 from a security and performance perspective.
2088
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2089* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2090 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2091 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2092 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2093
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2095 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2096 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2097 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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2098 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2099
a23aa5b7 2100* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 2101 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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2102 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2103 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2104 _Float128.
2105
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2106* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2107 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2108 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 2109
4bab0224 2110* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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2112* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2113 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2114 pkey_get.
2115
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2116* The copy_file_range function was added.
2117
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2118* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2119
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2120* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2121 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2122 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2123
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2124* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2125 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2126 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2127 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2128 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2129 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2130 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2131
2132 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2133 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2134 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2135 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2136 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2137 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2138 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2139
2140 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2141 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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2142 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2143 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2144 respectively.
2145
2146 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2147 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2148 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2149 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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2150
2151 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2152 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2153 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2154
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2155 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2156 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 2157 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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2159* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2160 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2161 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2162
2163 - rv64imac lp64
2164 - rv64imafdc lp64
2165 - rv64imafdc lp64d
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2167Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2168
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2169* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2170 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 2171 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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2172 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2173 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2174 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2175 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2176 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2177 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2178 fix this.
2179
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2180* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2181 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2182 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2183
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2184* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2185 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2186 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2187 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2188 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2189 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2190 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2191 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2192 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2193 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2194 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2195 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2196 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2197 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2198 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2199 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2200 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2201 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2202 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2203 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2204 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2205 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2206 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2207 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2208 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2209 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
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2212 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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2215 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2216 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2217 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2218 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2219 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2220 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
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2222* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2223 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2224 exp10l for these functions instead.
2225
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2226* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2227 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2228 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2229
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2230* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2231 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2232 ignored.
2233
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2234* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2235 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2236 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2237 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2238
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2240 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2241
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2242* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2243 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
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2245* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2246 programs.
2247
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2248* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2249
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2250* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2251 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2252 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2253 instead.
2254
2255 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2256 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2257 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2258 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2259 use, but predates the bits convention.
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2262
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2263* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2264 subdirectory.
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2266Security related changes:
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FW
2268 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2269 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2270 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2271 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2272 script.)
00cdcf5a 2273
822f523b
FW
2274 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2275 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2276 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2277 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
c369d66e 2278
914c9994
FW
2279 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2280 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2281 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2282 of service.
2283
15e84c63
AJ
2284 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2285 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
a159b53f
PE
2286 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2287
37ac8e63
FW
2288 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2289 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2290 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2291 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2292
8a0b17e4
FW
2293 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2294 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2295 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2296 Qualys.
2297
3ff3dfa5
FW
2298 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2299 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2300 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2301 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2302 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2303
3e3c904d
AJ
2304 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2305 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2306 current directory.
2307
52a713fd
DL
2308 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2309 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2310 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2311
4590634f
FW
2312 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2313 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2314 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2315
71aa429b
FW
2316 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2317 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2318 small, instead of NULL.
2319
00cdcf5a
SP
2320The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2321
242cbc90
DL
2322 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2323 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2324 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2325 locale
2326 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2327 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2328 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2329 cases
2330 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2331 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2332 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2333 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2334 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2335 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2336 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2337 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2338 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2339 "Bangla"
2340 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2341 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2342 width Latin characters
2343 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2344 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2345 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2346 letters
2347 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2348 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2349 (CVE-2009-5064)
2350 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2351 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2352 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2353 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2354 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2355 if malloc succeeded
2356 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2357 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2358 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2359 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2360 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2361 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2362 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2363 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2364 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2365 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2366 U+309A
2367 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2368 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2369 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2370 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2371 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2372 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2373 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2374 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2375 for Nicaragua
2376 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2377 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2378 are not found.
2379 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2380 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2381 access
2382 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2383 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2384 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2385 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2386 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2387 __regcall calling convention
2388 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2389 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2390 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2391 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2392 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2393 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2394 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2395 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2396 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2397 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2398 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2399 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2400 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2401 locale
2402 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2403 protector=all
2404 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2405 wcwidth
2406 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2407 consistency check failures
2408 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2409 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2410 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2411 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2412 PIE
2413 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2414 locales
2415 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2416 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2417 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2418 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2419 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2420 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2421 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2422 on memory allocation failure
2423 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2424 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2425 the suspect)
2426 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2427 default (i386)
2428 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2429 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2430 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2431 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2432 instead of EAI_NODATA
2433 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2434 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2435 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2436 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2437 implementation
2438 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2439 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2440 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2441 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2442 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2443 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2444 allocation in syscall loops)
2445 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2446 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2447 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2448 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2449 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2450 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2451 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2452 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2453 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2454 occur with -O3
2455 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2456 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2457 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2458 amounts)
2459 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2460 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2461 niu_NZ
2462 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2463 checks
2464 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2465 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2466 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2467 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2468 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2469 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2470 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2471 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2472 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2473 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2474 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2475 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2476 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2477 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2478 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2479 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2480 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2481 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2482 parsing after OOM
2483 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2484 object
2485 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2486 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2487 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
2488 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2489 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2490 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
fdb724f9 2491 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
242cbc90
DL
2492 ppc64le
2493 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2494 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2495 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2496 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2497 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2498 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2499 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2500 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2501 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2502 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2503 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2504 math_force_eval
2505 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2506 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2507 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2508 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2509 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2510 the svid compat wrapper
2511 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2512 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2513 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2514 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2515 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2516 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2517 --verbose.
2518 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2519 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2520 to 2.26
2521 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2522 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2523 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2524 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2525 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2526 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2527 (CVE-2017-15804)
2528 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2529 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2530 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2531 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2532 failure."
2533 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2534 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2535 -m32
2536 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2537 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2538 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2539 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2540 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2541 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2542 inside the ASCII printable range
2543 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2544 -mlong-double-64
2545 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2546 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2547 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2548 Internet
2549 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2550 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2551 backslash
2552 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2553 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2554 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2555 heaps in an arena
2556 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2557 networking interface
2558 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2559 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2560 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2561 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2562 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2563 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2564 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2565 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2566 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2567 order
2568 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2569 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2570 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2571 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2572 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2573 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2574 same as for Croatian
2575 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2576 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2577 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2578 for initial thread"
2579 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2580 SC_SSIZE_MAX
2581 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2582 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2583 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2584 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2585 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2586 (CVE-2017-1000408)
2587 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2588 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2589 modified in case of success
2590 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2591 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2592 success
2593 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2594 stack-protector=all
2595 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2596 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2597 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2598 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2599 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2600 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2601 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2602 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2603 adding it on top
2604 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2605 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2606 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2607 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2608 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2609 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2610 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2611 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2612 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2613 (CVE-2018-1000001)
2614 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2615 elision and tunables
2616 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2617 "invalid" exception
2618 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2619 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2620 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2621 exception
2622 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2623 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2624 power4
2625 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2626 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2627 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2628 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2629 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2630 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2631 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2632 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2633 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
00cdcf5a 2634
58557c22
SP
2635\f
2636Version 2.26
2637
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2638Major new features:
2639
d5c3fafc
DD
2640* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2641 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2642 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2643 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2644 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2645 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2646 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2647
925fac77
MF
2648* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2649 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 2650 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
a0e52598
MF
2651 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2652 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2653 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2654 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
58557c22 2655
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2656* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2657 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2658 Egmont Koblinger.
e4e79484 2659
2b2ccd0c 2660* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
025b33ae 2661
7e368000
JM
2662 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2663 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2664 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
daeb1fa2 2665
7e368000
JM
2666 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2667 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2668 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2669 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2670 object are still limited to six search domains.
139ace95 2671
7e368000
JM
2672 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2673 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2674 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
cd354a38 2675
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2676* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2677 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
d8cee557 2678
2b2ccd0c
ZW
2679* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2680 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2681 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2682 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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2684* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2685 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2686 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2687 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
8082d91e 2688
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2689* posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2690 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2691 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2692 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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2694* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2695 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2696 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
12d2dd70 2697
2b2ccd0c 2698* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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2699 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2700 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2701 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2c0b90ab 2702
2b2ccd0c 2703 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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2704 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2705 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2706 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2707 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2708
2709 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2710 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2711 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2712 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2713 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2714 interfaces should be used instead.
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2716Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2717
2718* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2719 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2720 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2721 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2722 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2723 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2724 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2725 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2726
2727* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2728 removed.
2729
2730* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
7e368000 2731 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
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2732 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2733 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2734
2735* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2736 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2737 default.
2738
2739 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2740 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2741 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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2742 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2743 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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2744
2745 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2746 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2747 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2748 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2749
2750* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2751 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2752 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2753 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2754
2755* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2756 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
5b757a51 2757
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2758* The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2759 exported by accident.
2760
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2761* <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2762 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2763 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2764
2765* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2766 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2767 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2768 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2769
2770* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2771
2772* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2773
2774* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2775 free instead.
2776
2777* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2778 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2779
2780* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2781 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2782
2783* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2784 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2785 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2786 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2787 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2788 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2789 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2790 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2791
2792* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2793 synced with the kernel:
2794
2795 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2796 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2797
2798 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2799 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2800 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2801
2802 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2803 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2804
2805Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2806
2807* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2808 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2809 x86-32 and x86-64.)
2810
7e368000 2811* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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2813* On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2814 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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2815
2816 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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2817 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2818 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2819 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 2820 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
aef16cc8 2821
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2822Security related changes:
2823
e14a2772 2824* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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2825 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2826
2827* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2828 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2829
2830* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2831 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2832 (CVE-2010-3192).
2833
2834* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2835 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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2836
2837The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2838
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2839 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2840 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2841 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2842 fields
2843 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2844 (CVE-2010-3192)
2845 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2846 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2847 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2848 ld.bfd is available
2849 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2850 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2851 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2852 x86 and other generic code
2853 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2854 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2855 incorrect
2856 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2857 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2858 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2859 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2860 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2861 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2862 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2863 resolver
2864 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2865 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2866 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2867 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2868 chillu characters
2869 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2870 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2871 receiving data
2872 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2873 whitespace
2874 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2875 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2876 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2877 for Peru
2878 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2879 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2880 failures consistently
2881 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2882 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2883 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2884 frame-pointer on i386
2885 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2886 register
2887 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2888 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2889 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2890 generic c code is used
2891 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2892 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2893 around 4000
2894 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2895 (CVE-2017-12133)
2896 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2897 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2898 with -lieee
2899 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2900 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2901 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2902 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2903 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2904 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2905 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2906 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2907 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2908 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2909 remove()
2910 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2911 checked for errors.
2912 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2913 new posix_spawn implementation
2914 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2915 leads to lower CPU frequency
2916 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2917 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2918 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2919 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2920 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2921 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2922 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2923 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2924 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2925 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2926 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2927 not support gethostbyname4_r
2928 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2929 switching
2930 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2931 arenas
2932 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2933 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2934 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2935 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2936 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2937 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2938 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2939 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2940 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2941 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2942 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2943 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2944 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2945 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2946 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2947 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2948 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2949 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2950 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2951 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2952 retry value
2953 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2954 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2955 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2956 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2957 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2958 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2959 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2960 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2961 [21537] libc:
2962 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2963 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2964 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2965 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2966 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2967 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2968 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2969 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2970 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2971 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2972 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2973 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2974 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2975 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2976 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2977 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2978 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2979 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2980 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2981 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2982 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2983 issue on x86-64
2984 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2985 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2986 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2987 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2988 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2989 construction
2990 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2991 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2992 between_2_3
2993 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2994 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2995 conditions
2996 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2997 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2998 Hindi Locale
2999 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3000 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3001 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3002 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3003 locale
3004 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3005 leading to relocation crash
3006 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3007 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3008 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3009 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3010 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3011 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3012 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3013 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3014 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3015 locale
3016 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3017 locale
3018 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3019 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3020 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3021 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3022 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3023 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3024 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3025 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3026 strings
3027 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3028 protector=all
3029 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3030 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
3031 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3032 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3033 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3034 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3035 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3036 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3037 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3038 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3039 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3040 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3041 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3042 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3043 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3044 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3045 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3046 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3047 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3048 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3049 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3050 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3051 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3052 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3053 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3054 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3055 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3056 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3057 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3058 with unicode 9.0
3059 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3060 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3061 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3062 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3063 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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3067
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3068* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3069 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3070 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3071 Library.
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3073* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3074 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 3075 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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3076 the GNU C Library.
3077
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3078* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3079 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3080 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3081 the GNU C Library.
3082
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3083* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3084 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3085 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3086 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3087 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3088 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3089 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3090 will not.
3091
3092 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3093 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3094 many years.
3095
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3096* The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3097 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3098 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3099
3100 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3101 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3102 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3103 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3104 problem.
3105
ec94343f 3106* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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3107 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3108 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
5146356f 3109
a292f45a
JM
3110* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3111 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
5b17fd0d
JM
3112 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3113 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3114 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3115 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3116 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3117 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3118 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3119 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3120 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3121 WINT_WIDTH.
a292f45a 3122
d942e95c
JM
3123* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3124
f82a4bdb
JM
3125 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3126
423c2b9d
JM
3127 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3128 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3129 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
41c67149 3130
55a38f82
JM
3131 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3132 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3133
525f8039
JM
3134 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3135 fminmagf, fminmagl.
3136
1e7c8fcc
JM
3137 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3138
29cb9293 3139 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
d942e95c 3140
cc6a8d74
JM
3141 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3142 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
5e9d98a3 3143
eaf5ad0b
JM
3144 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3145
eb3c12c7 3146 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 3147 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
f8e8b8ed 3148
f3b904d9
JM
3149* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3150 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3151
cecbc796
NA
3152* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3153 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3154 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3155
ea1bd74d
ZW
3156* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3157 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3158 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3159 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3160 effects of the memory clear).
3161
b0216d3e
JM
3162* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3163 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3164 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3165 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3166
f3b904d9
JM
3167* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3168 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3169 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3170 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3171 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3172 if they are compiled or used with those options.
6962682f 3173
92dcaa3e
FW
3174* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3175 have been added.
3176
705a79f8
FW
3177* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3178 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3179 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3180 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3181 as large as several megabytes.
3182
4d728087
FW
3183* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3184 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3185 been removed.
3186
e863cce5
FW
3187* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3188 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3189 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3190 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3191 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3192 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3193 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3194
7ec47a85
FW
3195* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3196 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3197 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3198 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3199
099191b1 3200* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
5140d036
FW
3201 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3202 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3203 Internet.
3204
bbe989ee
FW
3205* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3206 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3207 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 3208
b76e0659
FW
3209* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3210 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3211 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3212 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3213
3a2a1d2c
FW
3214* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3215 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3216 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3217 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3218 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3219
be728303
FW
3220* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3221 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3222 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3223 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3224 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3225
6815a33d
FW
3226* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3227 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3228 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3229 did not reflect that.
3230
022dfdce
SL
3231* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3232 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3233 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3234 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3235 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3236 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3237 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3238 'gcc/config.gcc'.
3239
23b5cae1
MG
3240* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3241 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3242 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3243 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3244
7715d3ab
SP
3245* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3246 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3247 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3248 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3249
0cea3587
SP
3250* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3251 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3252 guarantees.
3253
3254* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3255 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3256 make state changes.
3257
e720d3d9
CD
3258Security related changes:
3259
fc82b0a2 3260* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4d047efd
FW
3261 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3262 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3263 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 3264 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 3265
fc82b0a2
FW
3266* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3267 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3268 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3269 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3270 (CVE-2015-5180)
3271
e720d3d9
CD
3272The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3273
fdb724f9 3274 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4e054e6b
SP
3275 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3276 protector-all
3277 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3278 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3279 before it started waiting
3280 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3281 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3282 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3283 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3284 wrong type
3285 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3286 library linked with pthread
3287 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3288 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3289 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3290 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3291 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3292 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3293 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3294 when it shouldnt
3295 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3296 not
3297 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3298 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3299 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3300 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3301 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3302 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3303 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3304 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3305 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3306 termination
3307 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3308 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3309 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3310 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3311 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3312 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3313 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3314 causes a segmentation fault
3315 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3316 linking
3317 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3318 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3319 uninitialized GOT
3320 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3321 versions
3322 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3323 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3324 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3325 is always true.
3326 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3327 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3328 modes
3329 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3330 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3331 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3332 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3333 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3334 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3335 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3336 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3337 libpthread.a
3338 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3339 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3340 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3341 _res_hconf
3342 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3343 information.
3344 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3345 penalty
3346 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3347 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3348 cause transition penalty
3349 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3350 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3351 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3352 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3353 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3354 mcount.oS)
3355 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3356 Checking
3357 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3358 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3359 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3360 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3361 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3362 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3363 multi-arch
3364 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3365 (RES_USEBSTRING)
3366 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3367 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3368 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3369 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3370 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3371 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3372 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3373 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3374 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3375 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3376 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3377 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3378 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3379 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3380 glibc
3381 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3382 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3383 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3384 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3385 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3386 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3387 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3388 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3389 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3390 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3391 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3392 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3393 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3394 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3395 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3396 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3397 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3398 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3399 RES_USE_INET6
3400 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3401 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3402 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3403 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3404 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3405 wrong condition
3406 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3407 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3408 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3409 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3410 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3411 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3412 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3413 clang
3414 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3415 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3416 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3417 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3418 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 3419\f
11fca961
AZ
3420Version 2.24
3421
5b4ecd3f
JM
3422* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3423 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3424 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3425 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3426 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3427 architectures.
3428
b6ebba70
MF
3429* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3430 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3431 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 3432
7584a3f9
FW
3433* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3434 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3435
b49ab5f4
FW
3436* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3437 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3438 instead of “union wait”.
3439
ced8f893
SG
3440* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3441 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3442 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3443 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3444 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3445 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3446 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3447
2ba3cfa1
FW
3448* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3449 API.
3450
b7a9b7b0
MF
3451* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3452 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3453 drop it.
6a54bcda 3454
41a359e2
RS
3455* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3456 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3457 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3458 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3459 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3460 extensions.
3461
11fca961
AZ
3462Security related changes:
3463
f5b3338d
FW
3464* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3465 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3466 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3467
4ab2ab03
FW
3468* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3469 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3470 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3471 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 3472
5171f307
FW
3473* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3474 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3475 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3476
bc779a1a
FW
3477* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3478 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3479 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3480
fab38231
FW
3481* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3482 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3483 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3484 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3485
11fca961
AZ
3486The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3487
3c4f81ec
CD
3488 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3489 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3490 of MS-DOS.
3491 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3492 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3493 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3494 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3495 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3496 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3497 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3498 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3499 CLDR data
3500 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3501 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3502 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3503 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3504 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3505 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3506 romanisation
3507 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3508 and +/-
3509 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3510 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3511 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3512 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3513 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3514 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3515 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3516 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3517 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3518 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3519 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3520 all locales
3521 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3522 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3523 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3524 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3525 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3526 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3527 execute
3528 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3529 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3530 -Wsystem-headers
3531 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3532 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3533 Romanian locale data
3534 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3535 symbol
3536 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3537 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3538 language
3539 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3540 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3541 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3542 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3543 machine
3544 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3545 description
3546 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3547 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3548 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3549 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3550 when using RTLD_NEXT
3551 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3552 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3553 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3554 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3555 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3556 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3557 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3558 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3559 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3560 Excavator core
3561 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3562 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3563 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3564 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3565 double range
3566 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3567 part zero incorrect
3568 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3569 equality tests
3570 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3571 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3572 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3573 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3574 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3575 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3576 glibc-2.22
3577 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3578 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3579 'tst-numeric.c'
3580 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3581 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3582 low part
3583 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3584 result
3585 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3586 unaligned stack
3587 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3588 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3589 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3590 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3591 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3592 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3593 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3594 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3595 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3596 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3597 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3598 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3599 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3600 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3601 modes
3602 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3603 server addresses
3604 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3605 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3606 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3607 response to getaddrinfo
3608 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3609 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3610 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3611 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3612 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3613 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3614 sometimes incorrect
3615 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3616 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3617 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3618 record types
3619 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3620 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3621 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3622 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3623 (CVE-2016-3075)
3624 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3625 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3626 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3627 resolving symbols
3628 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3629 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3630 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3631 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3632 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3633 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3634 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3635 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3636 gethosts
3637 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3638 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3639 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3640 (CVE-2016-3706)
3641 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3642 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3643 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3644 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3645 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3646 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3647 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3648 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3649 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3650 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3651 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3652 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3653 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3654 executable
3655 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3656 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3657 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3658 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3659 XPG3
3660 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3661 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3662 (CVE-2016-4429)
3663 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3664 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3665 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3666 AS not supporting AVX512
3667 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3668 sNaN argument
3669 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3670 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3671 argument
3672 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3673 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3674 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3675 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3676 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3677 eax=0x80000001
3678 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3679 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3680 subnormals
3681 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3682 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3683 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3684 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3685 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3686 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3687 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3688 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3689 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3690 input
3691 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3692 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3693 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3694 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3695 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3696 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3697 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3698 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3699 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3700 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3701 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3702 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3703 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3704 double rounding
3705 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3706 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3707 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3708 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3709 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3710 (Only arm/linux)
3711 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3712 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3713 fallbacks
3714 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3715 "invalid" exceptions
3716 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3717 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3718 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3719 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3720 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3721 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3722 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3723 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3724 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
11fca961 3725\f
aeb47bbc
DM
3726Version 2.23
3727
23256f5e
MF
3728* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3729 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3730 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3731 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3732 89, 16061, and 18568.
3733
2359035a
FW
3734* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3735 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3736 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3737 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3738 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3739 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3740 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3741
8b7b7f75
MW
3742* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3743 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3744 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3745
2eecc8af
FW
3746* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3747 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3748 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3749 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3750 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3751 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3752 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3753
a62719ba
FW
3754* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3755 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3756 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3757 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3758 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 3759 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
a62719ba
FW
3760 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3761 Ericsson.)
a014cecd 3762
bc148ca1
MF
3763* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3764 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3765 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3766 independent of the GNU C Library.
3767
1c70b6f1
ZW
3768* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3769 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1efad39b 3770
eed3e1eb
JM
3771* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3772 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3773 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3774 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3775 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3776 Linux kernel.
3777
1efad39b
SL
3778* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3779 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
b08b4218 3780
d709042a
JM
3781* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3782 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3783 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3784 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3785 defining their own copy.
3786
b08b4218
JM
3787* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3788 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3789 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
f268ab5f 3790
8f5e8b01
JM
3791Security related changes:
3792
6400ae6e
FW
3793* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3794 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3795
3796* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3797 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3798 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3799 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3800 (CVE-2015-8777)
3801
3802* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3803 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3804
3805* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3806 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3807
8f5e8b01
JM
3808* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3809 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 3810 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
8f5e8b01 3811
e9db92d3
CD
3812* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3813 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3814 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3815 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3816 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3817 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3818 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3819 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3820 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3821 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3822 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3823 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3824 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3825
ad372e29 3826The following bugs are resolved with this release:
f268ab5f 3827
ad372e29
AZ
3828 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3829 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3830 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3831 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3832 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3833 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3834 use `mkstemp'
3835 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3836 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3837 overflow/underflow errors
3838 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3839 overflow/underflow
3840 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3841 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3842 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3843 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3844 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3845 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3846 are not contiguous
3847 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3848 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3849 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3850 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3851 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3852 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3853 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3854 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3855 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3856 all exceptions
3857 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3858 arguments
3859 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3860 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3861 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3862 should include
3863 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3864 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3865 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3866 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3867 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3868 GNU/Linux
3869 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3870 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3871 arguments
3872 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3873 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3874 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3875 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3876 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3877 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3878 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3879 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3880 rounding results
3881 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3882 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3883 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3884 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3885 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3886 fails
3887 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3888 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3889 block boundary
3890 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3891 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3892 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3893 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3894 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3895 4.7?
3896 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3897 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3898 (related to lock elision)
3899 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3900 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3901 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3902 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3903 (CVE-2015-8779)
3904 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3905 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3906 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3907 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3908 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3909 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3910 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3911 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3912 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3913 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3914 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3915 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3916 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3917 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3918 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3919 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3920 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3921 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3922 contains a vector instruction exception.
3923 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3924 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3925 locales
3926 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3927 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3928 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3929 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3930 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3931 missing break ?
3932 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3933 32bit processes
3934 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3935 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3936 infinity
3937 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3938 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3939 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3940 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3941 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3942 be forced unloaded
3943 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3944 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3945 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3946 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3947 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3948 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3949 statically too large
3950 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3951 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3952 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3953 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3954 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3955 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3956 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3957 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3958 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3959 FUTEX_SHARED
3960 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3961 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3962 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3963 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3964 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3965 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3966 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3967 opendir()
3968 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3969 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3970 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3971 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3972 signgam
3973 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3974 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3975 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3976 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3977 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3978 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3979 dependencies
3980 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3981 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3982 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3983 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3984 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3985 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3986 (CVE-2015-8776)
3987 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3988 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3989 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3990 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3991 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3992 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3993 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3994 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3995 contention
3996 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3997 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3998 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3999 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4000 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4001 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4002 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4003 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4004 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4005 rounding modes
4006 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4007 ILP32
4008 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4009 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4010 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4011 threshold
4012 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4013 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4014 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4015 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4016 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4017 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4018 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4019 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4020 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4021 pthread_setaffinity_np
4022 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4023 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4024 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4025 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4026 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4027 prelink
4028 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4029 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4030 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4031 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4032 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4033 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4034 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4035 bits/mathcalls.h
4036 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4037 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4038 for C99-based standards
4039 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4040 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4041 math-only
4042 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4043 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4044 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4045 disabled
4046 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4047 "inexact" exceptions
4048 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4049 arguments
4050 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4051 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4052 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4053 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4054 rules
4055 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4056 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4057 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4058 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4059 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4060 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4061 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4062 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4063 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4064 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4065 from 32bit
4066 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4067 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4068 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4069 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4070 subnormals
4071 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4072 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4073 error on 32-bit architectures
4074 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4075 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4076 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4077 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4078 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4079 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4080 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4081 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4082 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4083 -Os
4084 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4085 CPU's.
4086 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4087 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4088 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4089 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4090 architectures
4091 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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4093Version 2.22
4094
4095* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4096
3df5cd98 4097 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
0e569d30
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4098 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4099 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4100 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4101 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4102 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4103 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4104 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4105 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4106 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4107 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4108 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4109 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4110 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4111 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4112 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4113 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4114 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
6fdd5d65
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4115 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4116 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 4117
f7fba805
SL
4118* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4119 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4120
2959eda9
AS
4121* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4122 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4123 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4124 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4125 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4126 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 4127
42261ad7
FW
4128* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4129 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4130 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4131 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4132 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4133
afcd9480
AM
4134* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4135 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4136 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4137
4a4839c9
AO
4138* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4139 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4140 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4141 17998.
4142
b13b96ca
AS
4143* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4144 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4145 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
4146
4147* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
4148 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4149 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
4150 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4151 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
4152 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4153 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 4154 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
4155
4156* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4157 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4158 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4159 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
4160
4161* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4162 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4163 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
7493ab25
RM
4164
4165* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4166 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
2ec11c2b
ZW
4167
4168* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4169 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4170 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4171
a03ba363 4172 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
4173 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4174 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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4176Version 2.21
4177
4178* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4179
042e1521 4180 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5bd80bfe
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4181 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4182 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4183 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4184 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4185 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4186 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4187 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4188 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4189 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4190 17892.
4191
46d54873
FW
4192* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4193 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4194 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4195 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4196 intended.
042e1521
CD
4197
4198* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4199 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4200 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4201 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4202 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4203 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 4204
522e6ee3
CLT
4205* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4206
d3b00f46
AZ
4207* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4208 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 4209 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 4210
8d2c0a59
AZ
4211* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4212 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4213 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4214 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4215 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4216 effects being visible outside transactions.
4217
dc400d7b
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4218* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4219 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 4220
0f9dfe04
L
4221* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4222
a39208bd
CD
4223* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4224 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 4225 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
a39208bd
CD
4226 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4227 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 4228
a5357b7c
JL
4229* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4230 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4231
e54db0ea
AM
4232* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4233 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4234 format.
11e3417a 4235
4863355a
JM
4236* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4237 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4238 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4239
a4ecc9eb
JM
4240* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4241 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4242
0d560bbf 4243* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
4244
4245* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4246 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4247 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4248 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
4249
4250* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4251 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
4252
4253* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4254 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4255 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4256 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4257 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4258 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4259 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4260 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4261 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4262 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4263 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4264 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4265 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4266
4267 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4268 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4269 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4270 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4271 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
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d5b396c1
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4273Version 2.20
4274
4275* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4276
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4277 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4278 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4279 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4280 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4281 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4282 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4283 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4284 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4285 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4286 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4287 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4288 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4289 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4290 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4291 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 4292
95ee7fb1
SL
4293* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4294 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4295 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4296 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4297 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 4298 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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SL
4299 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4300 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4301 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4302 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4303
0961f7e1
JL
4304* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4305 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4306 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4307 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4308 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 4309
f940b965
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4310* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4311
d0f5b3f8
JM
4312* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4313 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4314
d6fe5e58
JM
4315* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4316 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4317 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4318 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4319 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4320 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4321
464263cc
JM
4322* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4323 from ports.
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JM
4324
4325* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4326 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4327 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4328 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4329 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4330 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4331 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
4332
4333* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
4334
4335* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4336 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4337 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4338 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4339 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4340 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4341 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
4342
4343* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4344 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4345 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4346 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4347 invocation.
cfd2ea50
JM
4348
4349* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4350 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4351 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
4352
4353* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4354 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4355 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4356 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4e8f95a0
FW
4357
4358* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4359 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4360 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4361 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4362 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4363 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4364 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4365 additional checks.
9a8a5720
RM
4366
4367* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4368 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4369 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4370 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4371 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4372 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4373 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4374 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4375 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
4376
4377* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4378 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4379 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4380 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4381 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 4382 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
4383
4384* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4385 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4386 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4387 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
6c1fd795
DM
4388\f
4389Version 2.19
4390
4391* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4392
fd2f9486
JM
4393 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4394 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4395 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4396 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4397 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4398 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4399 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4400 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4401 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4402 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
4403 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4404 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4405 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4406 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4407 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
4408 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4409 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4410 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 4411
11520a57
CD
4412* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4413 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4414
2fe16229
CD
4415* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4416 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4417 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
08d76093
CD
4418 extension which uses __block.
4419
303e567a
SP
4420* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4421 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4422 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4423 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4424 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4425
141f3a77
SP
4426* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4427 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4428 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4429 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4430 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
4431
4432* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4433 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4434 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4435 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4436 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
4437
4438* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4439 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4440 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4441
ba0d798c
WN
4442* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4443 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4444 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4445 #15856, #15857).
4446
7cbcdb36
SP
4447* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4448 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4449
82bab04b 4450* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 4451 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 4452
c5f840fd
MB
4453* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4454
3e181dda
CD
4455* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4456 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 4457
3e181dda 4458* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 4459
8a05c252
CL
4460* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4461
6055173a
JM
4462* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4463 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4464 for which the C library was built.
4465
b125d3e5
JM
4466* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4467 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4468 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4469 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4470 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4471 in the following circumstances:
4472
4473 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4474
4475 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4476 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4477
d4f66d37
JM
4478* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4479 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4480
3e181dda
CD
4481* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4482 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 4483
ffb89e53
AO
4484* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4485
5d29ccce
SP
4486* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4487 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4488
8b7d57cd 4489* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
4490
4491* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 4492
fd712ef3 4493* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 4494
c688b419
JM
4495* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4496 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4497 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4498 disable some of those declarations.
4499
7011c262 4500* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
4501 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4502 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
4503
4504* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4505 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
4506
4507* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4508 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4509 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4510 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4511 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4512 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4513 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4514 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4515 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4516 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4517 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4518 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4519 require recompilation.
2c8bfe7d
DM
4520\f
4521Version 2.18
4522
4523* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4524
17db6e8d 4525 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
4526 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4527 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
JM
4528 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4529 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4530 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4531 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4532 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4533 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4534 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4535 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4536 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4537 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4538 15755, 15759.
e4608715
CD
4539
4540* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4541 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4542 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4543 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4544 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4545 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 4546
5b535ac4
AS
4547* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4548 #15078).
4549
1cef1b19
AS
4550* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4551 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 4552
55e4107b
SP
4553* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4554 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4555 destructor calls to glibc.
4556
e5c74c63
SP
4557* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4558 output.
4559
4560* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4561 non-x86 architectures.
4562
e7521973
JM
4563* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4564
4565* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4566
4567* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4568 Richard Henderson.
4569
4570* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4571
4572* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4573 Richard Henderson.
4574
4575* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4576 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4577
8cfdb7e0
SP
4578* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4579
57267616
TS
4580* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4581 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 4582
c204ab28
SP
4583* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4584 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 4585
0748546f
PE
4586* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4587 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4588 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4589
61dd6208
SP
4590* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4591 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4592 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
4593
4594* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4595 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4596 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4597 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4598 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
4599
4600* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4601 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4602
4603* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
4604\f
4605Version 2.17
4606
4607* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4608
80ceeaee 4609 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
4610 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4611 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4612 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4613 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4614 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4615 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4616 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4617 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4618 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4619 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4620 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4621 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4622 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4623 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 4624
95b4f1b6
SE
4625* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4626
14bc93a9
JL
4627* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4628 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 4629
b54eb3cb
JM
4630* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4631 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4632
7e2bd01f
MS
4633* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4634
08f43f9b
AK
4635* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4636 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4637 zEnterprise z196.
4638 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4639
84b3fd84
FW
4640* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4641 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4642 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4643
815e6fa3
GB
4644* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4645 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4646
400726de
MK
4647* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4648 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4649
7aab07e4 4650* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 4651 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 4652
15d0da8c
WS
4653* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4654 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4655
3cc3ef96
RM
4656* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4657 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
4658 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4659 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 4660
b54eb3cb
JM
4661* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4662 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4663
85429b1a 4664* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 4665 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
4666 default.
4667
b54eb3cb
JM
4668* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4669 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4670 information in --help and --version output.
4671
050af9c4
SP
4672* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4673 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4674 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4675
89a3ad0b
AO
4676* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4677 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4678 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4679 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4680 when the mode is enabled.
4681
6e6249d0
RM
4682* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4683 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4684 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4685 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4686 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4687 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4688 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 4689
d9286582
NK
4690* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4691 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
8d44e150
UD
4692\f
4693Version 2.16
4694
4695* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4696
a8133e19
JM
4697 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4698 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4699 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4700 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4701 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4702 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4703 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4704 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4705 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4706 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4707 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4708 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4709 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4710 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4711 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4712 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4713 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4714 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4715 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4716 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4717 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4718 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4719 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 4720
a086b4d6
L
4721* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4722 configuring glibc with:
4723 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
8f7a75d7 4724 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
a086b4d6
L
4725 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4726
380d7e87
UD
4727* ISO C11 support:
4728
4729 + define static_assert
4730
4731 + do not declare gets
4732
4733 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4734
4735 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4736 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4737 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4738 implementation.
8d44e150 4739
74033a25 4740 + timespec_get added
544563c9
UD
4741
4742 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 4743
ac097f5c
UD
4744 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4745
16dd419d
UD
4746 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4747
9dc4e1fb 4748* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
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4749
4750* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
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4751
4752* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4753 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4754
4755* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4756 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4757
4758* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4759 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4760 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4761 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4762 existing applications.
ffb7875d 4763
21708942 4764* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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4765 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4766 before 2.6.
83678f76 4767
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4768* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4769 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4770 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4771
83678f76 4772* New locales: mag_IN
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4773
4774* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4775 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4776 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4777 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4778 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
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4779
4780* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4781
d9dc34cd
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4782* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4783 and Will Schmidt.
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4784
4785* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4786
4787* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4788 without a previously built glibc.
4789
4790* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4791 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4792
4793* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4794 now supported for ARM processors.
4795
4796* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4797 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4798 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4799
4800* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
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4801
4802* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4803 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4804 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4805 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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4806
4807* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4808 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4809 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4810 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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4811
4812* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4813 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4814 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4815 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4816 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4817
4818* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4819 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4820 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4821 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
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e80fab37 4823Version 2.15
11988f8f 4824
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4825* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4826
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4827 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4828 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4829 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4830 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4831 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4832 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4833 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
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4835* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4836 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4837
4838* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4839 and support for initgroups lookups.
4840 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4841
4842* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4843 Contributed by HJ Lu.
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4844
4845* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4846 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 4847
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4848* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4849 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 4850 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 4851
d42964a0 4852* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
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4853 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4854
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4855* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4856 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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4857 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4858
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4859* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4861
4862* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4863 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4864
4865* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4867
4868* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4870
4871* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4872 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4873
4874* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4876
4877* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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4878
4879* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4880 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
a1267ba1 4881
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4882* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4883 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 4884
6b64057b 4885* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
e80fab37 4886\f
dded88cd 4887Version 2.14
9f94d2ea 4888
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4889* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4890
553149f6 4891 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 4892 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 4893 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 4894 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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4895 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4896 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4897 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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4898 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4899 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 4900 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
50934221 4901
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4902* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4903 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4904 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 4905 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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4906
4907 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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4908 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4909 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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4910 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4911
c6489db3 4912* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 4913 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 4914
72d1dddb 4915* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 4916 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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4917
4918* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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4919
4920* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4921 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4922
4923* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4924 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4925 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4926 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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4928Version 2.13
4929
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4930* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4931
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4932 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4933 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4934 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4935 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4936 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 4937
10b3bedc 4938* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 4939
ac2b484c 4940* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 4941
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4942* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4943 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 4944 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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4946Version 2.12
4947
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4948* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4949
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4950 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4951 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4952 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4953 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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4954 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4955 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4956 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 4957 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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4958
4959* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 4960
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4961* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4962
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4963* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4964
4965* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4966 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4967 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4968
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4969* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4970 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4971 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4972 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4973 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4974
d36b9613 4975* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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4976\f
4977Version 2.11
4978
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4979* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4980
4981 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4982 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4983 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4984 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4985 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4986 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4987
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4988* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4989 mkostemps64
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4990 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4991
24ab9c76 4992* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
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4993 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4994
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4995* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4996 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4997
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4998* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4999
0122f28e 5000* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 5001 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 5002 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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5003 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5004
9d36a6c4 5005 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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5006 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5007
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5008* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5009 strstr, strcasestr.
5010 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5011
5012* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5013 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5014
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5015* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5016 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5017
5018* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5019 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5020
5021* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5022 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5023 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5024 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5025 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5026 necessity is every process again.
5027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5028
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5029* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5030 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5031
5032* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5033 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5034
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5035* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5036 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5037 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5038
9dd5b8a1 5039* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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5040\f
5041Version 2.10
5042
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5043* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5044
5045 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5046 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5047 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5048 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5049 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5050
bb066545 5051* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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5052 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5053
425ce2ed 5054* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 5055 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 5056
1fdd89a7 5057* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 5058 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
1fdd89a7 5059
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5060* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5061 now in POSIX.
77db439e 5062
1f04d005 5063* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 5064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 5065
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5066* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5068
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5069* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5070 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5071
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5072* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5073 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5074
5075* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5076 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5077 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5078
735be400 5079* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 5080
84aa52d7 5081* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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5082 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5083
5084* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5085 and extend existing format specifiers.
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5086 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5087
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5088* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5089 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5090
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5091* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5092 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5093 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5094 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5095 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5096 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5098Version 2.9
5099
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5100* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5101
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5102 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5103 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5104 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5105 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5106 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
d36b9613 5107
b29899ae 5108* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
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5109 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5110
5111* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5112 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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5113
5114* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5116
5117* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5118 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5119 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5120
5121* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5122 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 5123
8ec2550e 5124* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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5125
5126* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 5127 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 5128
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5129* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5130 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5131 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5132 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5133
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5134* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5135 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
48b22986 5136
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5137* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5138 Sinhala)
48b22986 5139 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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5140
5141* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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5143Version 2.8
5144
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5145* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5146
5147 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5148 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5149 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5150 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5151 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5152 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5153 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5154
e038616f 5155* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 5156
77751669 5157* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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5158
5159* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5160 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5161
5162* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5163
5164* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5165 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5166
5167* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5169
5170* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5171 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5172 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5173
5174* Faster memset for x86-64.
5175 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5176
5177* Faster memcpy on x86.
5178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5179
5180* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5181 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5182
5183* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 5184 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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5186Version 2.7
5187
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5188* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5189
5190 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5191 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5192 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5193 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5194 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5195
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5196* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5197 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5198
5199* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5200
5201* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5202 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5203 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5204
5205* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5206 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5207
28919a77 5208* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
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5209 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5210
5211* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5212
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5213* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5215
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5216* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5217 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5218
5219* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5220 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5221
5222* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5223
5224* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5225 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5227* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5228 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5229 yo_NG.
5230
5231+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5232 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5237
5238 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5239 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5240 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5241 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5242 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5243 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5244 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5245 4702, 4858
5246
bce20b9a 5247* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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5249* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5250
b21fa963 5251* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5254
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5255* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5256
5257 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5258 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5259 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5260 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5261 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5262 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5263 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5264 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5265 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5266
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5268 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5269 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5271* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5272 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5273
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5275
5276* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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5278* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5279 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5280 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 5281 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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5282 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5283
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5285 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5286 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5288
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5289* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5290 Ulrich Drepper.
5291
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5292* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5293
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5294* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5295 Ulrich Drepper.
5296
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5297* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5298
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5299* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5300 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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5302Version 2.4
5303
5304* More overflow detection functions.
5305
5306* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5307 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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5309 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5310 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5311 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5312 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5313 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5314 by Masahide Washizawa.
5315
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5316* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5317 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5318
5319* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5320 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5321 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5322 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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5324* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5325 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5326
5327* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5328
5329* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5330 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5331 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5332
5333* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5334 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5335
5336* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5337 for compatibility with some other systems.
5338
5339* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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5341Version 2.3.6
5342
5343* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5344
5345 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5346 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5347 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5348 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5349 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5350 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5351
5a82c748 5352 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5353
5354* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5355
5356* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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5358Version 2.3.5
5359
5360* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5361
5362 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5363 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5364 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5365 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5366
5a82c748 5367 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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5369Version 2.3.4
5370
5371* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5372 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5373
5374* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5375 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5376 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5377
5378* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5379 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5380
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5382 efficiently.
5383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5384
5385* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5386 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5387 handling data.
5388
5389* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5390 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 5391 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5392
5393* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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5394 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5395
5396* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5397 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5398 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5399 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5400
5401* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5402 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5403 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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5404 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5405
5406* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5407 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5408 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5409 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5410 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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5412Version 2.3.3
5413
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5414* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5415 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5416
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5417* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5418 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
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5421 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5422
5423* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5424 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5425
5426* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5427 by Roland McGrath.
5428
c5af724c 5429* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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5430 and Ulrich Drepper.
5431
5432* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5433 RFC 3484.
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5435Version 2.3.2
5436
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5437* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5438 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5439 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5440 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5441 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5442 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5443 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5444 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5445 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5446
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5447* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5448 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5449 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5450
5451* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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5452
5453* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5454 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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5456* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5457 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5458
52a16e58 5459* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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5461* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5462 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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5463
5464* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5465 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5466 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5467 of weak definition in ld.so.
5468
5469* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5470 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5471
5472* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5473 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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5477* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5478 charsets.
5479
5480* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5481 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
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bb0ec5bd 5483* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 5484 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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5485
5486* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5487 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 5488
bb0ec5bd 5489* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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5490 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5491 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5493* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5494 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 5495
bb0ec5bd 5496* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 5497 implementation of regex.
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5499* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5500 Unicode 3.2.
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5502* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5503 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
be45f421 5504
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5505* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5506 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5507 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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5508
5509* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
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5511
5512* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5513 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5514 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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5515
5516* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5517 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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5518
5519* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5520 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5521 and Ulrich Drepper.
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5522
5523* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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5525Version 2.2.6
5526
5527* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5528 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5529
5530* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5531 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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5533Version 2.2.5
5534
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5535* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5536 128-bit long double format.
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5538* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5539 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 5540
ad2e4f18 5541* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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5543* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5544
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5545* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5546 as well.
5547
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5548* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5549 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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5550
5551* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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5553Version 2.2.4
5554
2995f70e 5555* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 5556 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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5557
5558* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5559 support Unicode 3.1.
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5560
5561* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5562 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 5563
69d5f925 5564* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 5565
69d5f925 5566* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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5567 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5568 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5569
5570* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5571 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5572
5573* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5574 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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5576* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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5578Version 2.2.3
5579
1746f2b0 5580* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
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5581 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5582 in float, double, and long double format.
5583
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5585 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5586 128-bit long double format.
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5588* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5589 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5590 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5591 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5592
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5593* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5594 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5595 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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5597* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5598 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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5599
5600* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5601 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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5602
5603* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5604 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5605 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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5606
5607* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5608 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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5610* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5611 of functions for Linux/x86.
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5613* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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5615Version 2.2.2
5616
464d97ec 5617* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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5618 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5619 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5620 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5621 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5622 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5623 other headers.
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5625* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5626 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5627
5628* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5629 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5630 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5631 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5632
5633* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5634 locales. While
5635
5636 locale -a
5637
5638 only lists the names of the supported locales
5639
5640 locale -a --verbose
5641
5642 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5643 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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5646
5647* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5648 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5649 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5650 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5651 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5652
5653 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5654
5655 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5656
5657 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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5659* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5660 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5661 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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5663* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5664 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5665
5666* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5667 changed from the default "C" locale.
5668
5669* The usual bug fixes.
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5672
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5673* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5674 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5675 is in progress.
5676
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5677* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5678
793bd4d9 5679* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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5681 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5682 obviously requires a database library being available.
5683
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5684* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5685
abbffdf9 5686* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5688* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5689 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5690
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5691* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5692
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5693* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5694 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5695 and Mark Kettenis.
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5696
5697 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5698 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5699 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 5700
a00c3ca9 5701 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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5702 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5703
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5704* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5705 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5706 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5707
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5708* Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5709 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5710 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5711 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5712
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5713 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5714 structures for the wide character tables.
5715
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5716* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5717
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5718* The utmp daemon has been removed.
5719
5720* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5721
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5722* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5723 and Yutaka Niibe.
5724
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5725* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5726
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5727* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5728
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5729* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5730
5731* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5732
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5733* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5734
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5736 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5737 implemented for Linux.
5738
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5739* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5740 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5741 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5742 versions.
5743
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5744* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5745 Masahide Washizawa.
5746
8f3f1e09 5747* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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5749Version 2.1.3
5750
5751* bug fixes
5752
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5754Version 2.1.2
5755
5756* bug fixes
5757
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5759Version 2.1.1
5760
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5761* New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5762
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5763* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5764
407d26b7 5765* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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5766
5767* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5768
407d26b7 5769* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 5770
407d26b7 5771* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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5772
5773* Update timezone data files.
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5775* lots of charmaps corrections
5776
5777* some new locale definitions and charmaps
5778
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5780Version 2.1
5781
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5782* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5783 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5784 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5785 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5786 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5787 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5788
c84142e8 5789* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 5790 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 5791
1fb05e3d 5792* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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5793 symbol level.
5794
5795* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5796 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 5797
cbdee279 5798* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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5799
5800* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 5801 numbers.
377a515b 5802
cbdee279 5803* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 5804
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5805* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5806 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
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5808* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5809 library.
5810
e61abf83 5811* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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5812 functions from ISO C 9X.
5813
5814* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5815 real valued functions.
e61abf83 5816
a5a0310d 5817* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
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5819* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5820
5821* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 5822
440d13e2 5823* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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5824
5825* Optimized string functions have been added.
5826
5827* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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5828
5829* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
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5831* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5832 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5833
5834 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5835 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5836
0dee6738 5837 user system wall
48244d09 5838
0dee6738 5839 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 5840
0dee6738 5841 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 5842
0dee6738 5843 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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5845 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5846
5847 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5848
5849 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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5851 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5852 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 5853 horribly slow.
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5855 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5856 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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5858* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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5859
5860* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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5862* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5863 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5864
5865* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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5867* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5868 Bambrough.
5869
5870* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5871 latest draft standards.
5872
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5874
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5875* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5876~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 5877addseverity NEW: Unix98
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5879argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5880argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5881argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5882argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5883argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5884argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5885argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5886argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5887argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5888argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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5889authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5890authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5891authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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5892backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5893backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5894backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5895cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
5896cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5897cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5898cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5899cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5900cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5901capget NEW: kernel
5902capset NEW: kernel
5903carg NEW: ISO C 9x
5904cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
5905cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
5906casin NEW: ISO C 9x
5907casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5908casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5909casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5910casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5911casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5912catan NEW: ISO C 9x
5913catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5914catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5915catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5916catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5917catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5919ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
5920ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5921ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5922ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5923ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5924ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5925cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
5926cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
5927cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
5928cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
5929cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5930cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5931clearerr_locked REMOVED
5932clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5933clog NEW: ISO C 9x
5934clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5935clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5936clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5937clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
5938clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
5939conj NEW: ISO C 9x
5940conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
5941conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
5942cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
5943cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
5944cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
5945cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
5946cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5947cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5948creal NEW: ISO C 9x
5949crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5950creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5951creat64 NEW: LFS
5952csin NEW: ISO C 9x
5953csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5954csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5955csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5956csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5957csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5958csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
5959csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5960csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5961ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
5962ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5963ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5964ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5965ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5966ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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5967des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5968ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 5969endutxent NEW: Unix98
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5970exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5971exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5972exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5973exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
5974exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
5975exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
5976fattach NEW: STREAMS
5977fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5978fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
5979fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
5980fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
5981feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5982fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5983fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5984fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5985feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5986feof_locked REMOVED
5987feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5988ferror_locked REMOVED
5989fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5990fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5991fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5992fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5993feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5994fflush_locked REMOVED
5995ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
5996ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
5997fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
5998fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5999fileno_locked REMOVED
6000fma NEW: ISO C 9x
6001fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6002fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
6003fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
6004fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
6005fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
6006fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
6007fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
6008fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 6009fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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6011fputc_locked REMOVED
6012fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6013fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6014freopen64 NEW: LFS
6015fseeko NEW: Unix98
6016fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
6017fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
6018fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6019fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
6020ftello NEW: Unix98
6021ftello64 NEW: LFS
6022ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6023ftw64 NEW: LFS
6024fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6025gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6026gamma_r REMOVED
6027gammaf_r REMOVED
6028gammal_r REMOVED
6029getchar_locked REMOVED
6030getdate NEW: Unix98
6031getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6032getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6033getmsg NEW: STREAMS
6034getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
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6037getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6038getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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6039getutxent NEW: Unix98
6040getutxid NEW: Unix98
6041getutxline NEW: Unix98
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6043globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6044gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6045gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6046grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 6047host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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6048iconv NEW: iconv
6049iconv_close NEW: iconv
6050iconv_open NEW: iconv
6051if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6052if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6053if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6054if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6055in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6056in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6057inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6058isastream NEW: STREAMS
6059iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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6060key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6061key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6062key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6063key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6064key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6065key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6066key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6067key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6068key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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6069llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6070llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6071llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6072llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6073llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6074llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6075log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
6076log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
6077log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
6078lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6079lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6080lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6081lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6082lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6083lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6084lseek64 NEW: LFS
6085makecontext NEW: Unix98
6086mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6087mmap64 NEW: LFS
6088moncontrol REMOVED
6089modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6090nan NEW: ISO C 9x
6091nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6092nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6093nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6094nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6095nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6097netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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6098nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6099nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6100nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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6102nftw64 NEW: LFS
6103open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 6104passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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6105pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
6106pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6107pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6108pread NEW: Unix98
6109pread64 NEW: LFS
6110printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6111printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6112profil_counter REMOVED
6113pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6114pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6115ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6116ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6117putc_locked REMOVED
6118putchar_locked REMOVED
6119putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6120putmsg NEW: STREAMS
6121putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 6122pututxline NEW: Unix98
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6124pwrite64 NEW: LFS
6125readdir64 NEW: LFS
6126readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6127remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6128remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6129remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6130round NEW: ISO C 9x
6131roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6132roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6133rtime NEW: GNU ext.
6134scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6135scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6136scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6137scandir64 NEW: LFS
6138sendfile NEW: kernel
6139setcontext NEW: Unix98
6140setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 6141setutxent NEW: Unix98
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6143sigignore NEW: Unix98
6144sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6145sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6146sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6147sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6148sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6149sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6150sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6151sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6152statfs64 NEW: LFS
6153statvfs NEW: Unix98
6154statvfs64 NEW: LFS
6155strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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6157strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6158strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 6159svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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6161svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6162swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6163tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6164tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6165tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6166tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6167tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6168tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
6169trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
6170truncate64 NEW: LFS
6171truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6172truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6173umount2 NEW: kernel
6174unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 6175updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 6176user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 6177utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 6178versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
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6181wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6182wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6183wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6184wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6185wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6186wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6187wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6188wcswcs NEW: Unix98
6189wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6190wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6191write_profiling REMOVED
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6193xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6194xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6195xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6196xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6197xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6198xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6199xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6200xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6201xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6202xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6203xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6204xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 6205xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 6206xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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6209Version 2.0.6
6210
6211* more bug fixes
6212
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6214Version 2.0.5
6215
6216* more bug fixes
6217
6218* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6219
6220* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6221
6222* rewrite of cbrt function
6223
6224* update of timezone data
6225\f
6226Version 2.0.4
6227
6228* more bug fixes
6229\f
6230Version 2.0.3
6231
6232* more bug fixes
c84142e8 6233\f
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6234Version 2.0.2
6235
6236* more bug fixes
6237
6238* add atoll function
6239
6240* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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6241
6242* fix math functions
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6244Version 2.0.1
6245
6246* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6247
6248* dynamic loader preserves all registers
6249
6250* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6251 the ELF dynamic loader.
6252
6253* support for parallel builds is improved
6254\f
40a4b79f 6255Version 2.0
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6257* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6258 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6259 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
6260
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6261* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6262 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6263 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6264 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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6265 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6266 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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6267 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6268 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6269 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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6270 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6271 files in the ELF format.
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6272
6273* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6274 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6275
6276* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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6277 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6278 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6279 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6280 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6281 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6282 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6283 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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6284 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6285 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6286 about dynamically linked binaries.
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6288* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6289 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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6290 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6291 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6292 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 6293
f7eac6eb 6294* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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6295 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6296 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6297 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6298 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6299
6300* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
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6302* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6303 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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6304 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6305 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6306 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6307 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6308 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6309 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6310 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 6311
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6312* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6313 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6314 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6315
6316* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6317 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6318 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6319
6320* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6321 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6322 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6323 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6324
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6325* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6326 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6327 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6328
6329* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6330 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6331 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6332
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6333* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6334 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6335
f7eac6eb 6336* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 6337 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 6338 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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6339 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6340
6341* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6342 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6343 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 6344
71733723 6345* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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6346 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6347 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6348 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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6349 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6350 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 6351 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 6352 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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6353
6354* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6355 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6356 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6357 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6358 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6359 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6360 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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6361
6362* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6363 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6364 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6365 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6366 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6367 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6368
6369* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6370 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6371
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6372* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6373 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6374 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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6376* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6377
6378* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6379 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6380 their use is discouraged.
6381
6382* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6383 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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6385* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6386 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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6387
6388* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6389 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6390
6391* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6392 see <dirent.h>.
6393
6394* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6395 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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6396 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6397 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6398 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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6399
6400* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6401 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6402 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6403 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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6404
6405* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6406 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6407
6408* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6409 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6410 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6411 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6412 number generator.
6413
6414* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6415 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6416
6417* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6418 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6419
71733723 6420* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 6421 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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6422 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6423 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 6424
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6425* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6426
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6427* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6428 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6429 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6430
6431* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6432 for arithmetic and string handling.
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c709e372 6434* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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6435 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6436 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6437 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6438
6439* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6440 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6441 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6442 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6443 programs already written to use it.)
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6444
6445* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6446 constants.
6447
6448* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6449 with 4.4 BSD.
6450
6451* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6452 a given effective group ID.
6453
6454* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6455 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6456 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6457 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6458
6459* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 6460 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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6461 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6462 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6463 doing the same thing.
6464
6465* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6466 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6467
6468* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 6469 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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6470
6471* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6472
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6473* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6474 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6475 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 6476 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 6477 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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6478
6479* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6480 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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6481
6482* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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6483 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6484 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6485 function.
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6486
6487* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6488
6489* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6490 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6491 strings.
6492
6493* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6494 and writing the utmp file.
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6495
6496* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6497 Thorsten Kukuk.
6498
6499* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6500 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6501 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6502
6503* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6504 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6505
6506* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6507 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6508 specification.
6509
6510* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6511 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6512 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6513 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6514
6515* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6516 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6517 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6518
6519* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6520 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6521 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6522 expression matcher.
6523
6524* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6525 functionality.
6526
6527* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6528 by Ulrich Drepper.
6529
6530* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6531
6532* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6533 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6534 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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6536Version 1.09
6537
6538* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6539
6540* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6541 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6542
6543* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6544 want to put themselves in the background.
6545
6546* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6547 run without an operating system.
6548
6549* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6550 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6551
6552* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6553 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6554
6555* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6556
6557* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6558 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6559 have YP (aka NIS).
6560
6561* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6562 conventions.
6563
6564* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6565 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6566\f
6567Version 1.08
6568
6569* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6570 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6571 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6572
6573* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6574 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6575
6576* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6577 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6578
6579* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6580
6581* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6582
6583* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6584 compatibility.
6585
6586* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6587 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6588 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6589
6590* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6591
6592* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6593 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6594 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6595
6596* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6597 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6598 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6599 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6600 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6601 on a block).
6602
6603* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6604 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6605 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6606 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6607 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6608 cross-compiler.
6609
6610* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6611 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6612\f
6613Version 1.07
6614
6615* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6616 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6617
6618* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6619 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6620 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6621
6622* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6623 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6624 address of the last character written.
6625
6626* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6627 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6628
6629* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6630 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6631
6632* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6633 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6634 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6635 you dereference this pointer.
6636
6637* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6638 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6639
6640* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6641 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6642 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6643 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6644
6645* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6646 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6647 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6648 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6649\f
6650Version 1.06
6651
6652* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6653 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6654 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6655 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 6656 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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6657
6658* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6659
6660* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6661
6662* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6663 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6664
6665* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6666 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6667
6668* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6669 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6670
6671* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6672 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6673 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6674 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6675 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6676
6677* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6678 to the error code in `errno'.
6679
6680* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6681 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6682 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6683 malloc'd string.
6684
6685* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6686 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6687 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6688
6689* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6690 uniquely-named temporary file.
6691\f
6692Version 1.05
6693
6694* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6695 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6696 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6697
6698* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6699 characters.
6700
6701* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6702 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6703
6704* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6705\f
6706Version 1.04
6707
6708* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6709 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6710 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6711 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6712
6713* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6714 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6715 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6716
6717* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6718 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6719
6720* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6721 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6722 made itself into a shared library.
6723
6724* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6725 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6726
6727* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6728 with limited length.
6729
6730* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6731
6732* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6733
6734* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6735
6736* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6737 function for traversing a directory tree.
6738
6739* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6740 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6741 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6742 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6743
6744* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6745 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6746
6747* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6748
6749* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6750 things to your strings.
6751
6752* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6753
6754* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6755 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6756 supporting those systems.
6757
6758* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6759 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6760 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6761 configuration files.
6762
6763* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6764 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6765
6766* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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6767 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6768 in <strings.h>.)
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6769
6770* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6771 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6772 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6773 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6774 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6775 required storage is not available.
6776
6777* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6778 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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6779
6780* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6781 latest files released from Berkeley.
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6785
6786 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
6787 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
6788 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
6789 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
6790
6791 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
6792 of this document, or of portions of it,
6793 under the above conditions, provided also that they
6794 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
6795\f
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