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ee9247c3 1GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
688903eb 2Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3See the end for copying conditions.
4
a306c790 5Please send GNU C library bug reports via <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
69be6aaf 6using `glibc' in the "product" field.
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8Version 2.28
9
10Major new features:
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12* <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
13 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
14
15 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
16 fMxaddfNx functions.
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18 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
19 fMxsubfNx functions.
20
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21 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
22 fMxmulfNx functions.
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24 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
25 fMxdivfNx functions.
26
c4ad5782 27* Nominative and genitive month names are now supported for the following
2e0c5de6 28 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Scottish Gaelic,
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29 Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now support
30 abbreviated alternative month names: Catalan, Greek, and Kashubian.
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32* New locale added: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE), including the support of the
33 nominative and genitive month names.
34
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35* Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
36 patches.
37
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38* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
39 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
40 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
41 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
42 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
43 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
44 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
45 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
46 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
47
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48* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
49 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
50 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
51 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
52 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
53 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
54 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
55 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
56 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
57 results in a load failure now.
58
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59Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
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61* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
62 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
63 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
64
65* The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
66 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
67 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
68 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
69 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
70 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
71
72* All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
73 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
74 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
75 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
76 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
77 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
78 (Bug #1190.)
79
80* The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
81 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
82 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
83 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
84 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
85 further explanation.
86
87 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
88 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
89 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
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91* The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
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93* The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
94 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
95 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
96
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97* The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
98 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
99 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
100 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
101
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102* The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
103 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
104 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
105 for this function instead.
106
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107* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
108 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
109 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
110
111* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
112 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
113 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
114 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
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116* The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
117 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
118 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
119 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
120 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
121
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122* The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
123 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
124 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
125 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
126 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
127 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
128 such as libgcrypt.
129
130* Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
131 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
132 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
133 enabled.
134
135* The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
136 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
137 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
138
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139* We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
140 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
141 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
142 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
143 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
144 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
145
146 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
147 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
148 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
149 behavior in a future release.
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153 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
154
155Security related changes:
156
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157 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
158 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
159 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
160 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
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162 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
163 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
164
165 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
166 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
167 Izbyshev.
168
169 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
170 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
171 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
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173The following bugs are resolved with this release:
174
175 [The release manager will add the list generated by
176 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
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179Version 2.27
180
181Major new features:
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183* The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
184 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
bd7bbb26 185 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
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186 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
187 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
188 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
189 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
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190 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
191 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
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ac817e08 193* Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
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194 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
195 H.J. Lu from Intel.
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197* Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
198
4cf82d23 199* Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
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201* In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
202 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
203 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
204 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
205 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
206 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
207 from a security and performance perspective.
208
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209* The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
210 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
211 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
212 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
213
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215 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
216 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
217 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
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218 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
219
a23aa5b7 220* On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
40ca951b 221 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
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222 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
223 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
224 _Float128.
225
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226* The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
227 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
228 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
0d93b7fd 229
4bab0224 230* glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
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232* Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
233 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
234 pkey_get.
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236* The copy_file_range function was added.
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238* Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
239
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240* The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
241 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
242 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
243
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244* Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
245 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
246 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
247 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
248 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
249 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
250 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
251
252 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
253 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
254 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
255 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
256 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
257 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
258 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
259
260 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
261 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
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263 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
264 respectively.
265
266 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
267 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
268 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
269 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
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271 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
272 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
273 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
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275 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
276 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
0a32e219 277 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
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279* Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
280 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
281 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
282
283 - rv64imac lp64
284 - rv64imafdc lp64
285 - rv64imafdc lp64d
286
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288
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289* Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
290 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
d4ae7827 291 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
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292 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
293 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
294 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
295 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
296 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
297 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
298 fix this.
299
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300* Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
301 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
302 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
303
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304* Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
305 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
306 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
307 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
308 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
309 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
310 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
311 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
312 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
313 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
314 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
315 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
316 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
317 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
318 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
319 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
320 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
321 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
322 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
323 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
324 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
325 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
326 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
327 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
328 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
329 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
330
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332 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
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334* libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
335 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
336 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
337 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
338 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
339 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
340 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
341
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342* The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
343 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
344 exp10l for these functions instead.
345
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346* The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
347 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
348 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
349
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350* The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
351 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
352 ignored.
353
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354* The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
355 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
356 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
357 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
358
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359* The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
360 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
361
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362* In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
363 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
364
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365* The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
366 programs.
367
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368* The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
369
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370* The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
371 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
372 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
373 instead.
374
375 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
376 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
377 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
378 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
379 use, but predates the bits convention.
380
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381Changes to build and runtime requirements:
382
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383* bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
384 subdirectory.
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386Security related changes:
387
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388 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
389 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
390 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
391 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
392 script.)
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394 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
395 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
396 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
397 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
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399 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
400 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
401 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
402 of service.
403
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405 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
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406 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
407
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408 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
409 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
410 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
411 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
412
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413 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
414 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
415 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
416 Qualys.
417
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418 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
419 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
420 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
421 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
422 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
423
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424 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
425 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
426 current directory.
427
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428 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
429 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
430 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
431
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432 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
433 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
434 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
435
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436 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
437 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
438 small, instead of NULL.
439
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442 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
443 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
444 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
445 locale
446 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
447 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
448 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
449 cases
450 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
451 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
452 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
453 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
454 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
455 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
456 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
457 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
458 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
459 "Bangla"
460 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
461 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
462 width Latin characters
463 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
464 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
465 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
466 letters
467 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
468 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
469 (CVE-2009-5064)
470 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
471 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
472 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
473 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
474 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
475 if malloc succeeded
476 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
477 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
478 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
479 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
480 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
481 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
482 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
483 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
484 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
485 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
486 U+309A
487 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
488 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
489 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
490 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
491 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
492 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
493 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
494 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
495 for Nicaragua
496 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
497 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
498 are not found.
499 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
500 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
501 access
502 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
503 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
504 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
505 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
506 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
507 __regcall calling convention
508 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
509 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
510 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
511 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
512 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
513 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
514 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
515 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
516 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
517 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
518 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
519 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
520 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
521 locale
522 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
523 protector=all
524 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
525 wcwidth
526 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
527 consistency check failures
528 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
529 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
530 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
531 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
532 PIE
533 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
534 locales
535 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
536 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
537 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
538 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
539 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
540 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
541 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
542 on memory allocation failure
543 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
544 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
545 the suspect)
546 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
547 default (i386)
548 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
549 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
550 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
551 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
552 instead of EAI_NODATA
553 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
554 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
555 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
556 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
557 implementation
558 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
559 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
560 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
561 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
562 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
563 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
564 allocation in syscall loops)
565 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
566 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
567 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
568 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
569 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
570 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
571 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
572 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
573 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
574 occur with -O3
575 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
576 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
577 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
578 amounts)
579 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
580 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
581 niu_NZ
582 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
583 checks
584 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
585 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
586 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
587 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
588 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
589 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
590 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
591 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
592 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
593 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
594 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
595 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
596 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
597 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
598 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
599 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
600 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
601 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
602 parsing after OOM
603 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
604 object
605 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
606 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
607 e.g. ET_GNU_DEBUG_*
608 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
609 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
610 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
611 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf oupts a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
612 ppc64le
613 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
614 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
615 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
616 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
617 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
618 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
619 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
620 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
621 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
622 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
623 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
624 math_force_eval
625 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
626 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
627 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
628 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
629 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
630 the svid compat wrapper
631 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
632 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
633 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
634 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
635 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
636 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
637 --verbose.
638 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
639 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
640 to 2.26
641 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
642 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
643 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
644 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
645 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
646 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
647 (CVE-2017-15804)
648 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
649 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
650 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
651 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
652 failure."
653 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
654 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
655 -m32
656 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
657 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
658 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
659 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
660 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
661 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
662 inside the ASCII printable range
663 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
664 -mlong-double-64
665 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
666 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
667 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
668 Internet
669 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
670 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
671 backslash
672 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
673 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
674 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
675 heaps in an arena
676 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
677 networking interface
678 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
679 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
680 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
681 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
682 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
683 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
684 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
685 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
686 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
687 order
688 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
689 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
690 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
691 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
692 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
693 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
694 same as for Croatian
695 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
696 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
697 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
698 for initial thread"
699 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
700 SC_SSIZE_MAX
701 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
702 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
703 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
704 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
705 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
706 (CVE-2017-1000408)
707 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
708 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
709 modified in case of success
710 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
711 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
712 success
713 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
714 stack-protector=all
715 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
716 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
717 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
718 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
719 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
720 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
721 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
722 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
723 adding it on top
724 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
725 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
726 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
727 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
728 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
729 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
730 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
731 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
732 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
733 (CVE-2018-1000001)
734 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
735 elision and tunables
736 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
737 "invalid" exception
738 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
739 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
740 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
741 exception
742 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
743 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
744 power4
745 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
746 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
747 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
748 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
749 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
750 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
751 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
752 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
753 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
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757
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759
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760* A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
761 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
762 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
763 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
764 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
765 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
766 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
767
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768* Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
769 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
0b38d66a 770 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
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771 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
772 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
773 are rendered with pango, see for example:
774 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
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776* Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
777 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
778 Egmont Koblinger.
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2b2ccd0c 780* Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
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782 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
783 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
784 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
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786 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
787 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
788 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
789 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
790 object are still limited to six search domains.
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792 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
793 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
794 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
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796* The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
797 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
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799* New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
800 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
801 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
802 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
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804* New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
805 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
806 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
807 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
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810 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
811 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
812 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
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814* errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
815 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
816 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
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2b2ccd0c 818* On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
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819 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
820 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
821 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
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2b2ccd0c 823 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
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825 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
826 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
827 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
828
829 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
830 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
831 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
832 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
833 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
834 interfaces should be used instead.
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837
838* The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
839 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
840 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
841 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
842 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
843 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
844 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
845 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
846
847* The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
848 removed.
849
850* Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
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852 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
853 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
854
855* The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
856 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
857 default.
858
859 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
860 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
861 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
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862 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
863 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
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865 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
866 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
867 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
868 name service modules, to be built and installed.
869
870* The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
871 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
872 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
873 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
874
875* res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
876 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
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879 exported by accident.
880
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882 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
883 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
884
885* The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
886 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
887 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
888 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
889
890* The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
891
892* The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
893
894* The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
895 free instead.
896
897* The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
898 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
899
900* The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
901 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
902
903* On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
904 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
905 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
906 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
907 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
908 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
909 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
910 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
911
912* On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
913 synced with the kernel:
914
915 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
916 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
917
918 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
919 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
920 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
921
922 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
923 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
924
925Changes to build and runtime requirements:
926
927* Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
928 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
929 x86-32 and x86-64.)
930
7e368000 931* GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
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934 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
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936 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
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937 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
938 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
939 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2b2ccd0c 940 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
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943
e14a2772 944* The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
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945 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
946
947* LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
948 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
949
950* Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
951 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
952 (CVE-2010-3192).
953
954* A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
955 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
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957The following bugs are resolved with this release:
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959 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
960 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
961 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
962 fields
963 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
964 (CVE-2010-3192)
965 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
966 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
967 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
968 ld.bfd is available
969 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
970 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
971 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
972 x86 and other generic code
973 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
974 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
975 incorrect
976 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
977 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
978 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
979 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
980 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
981 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
982 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
983 resolver
984 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
985 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
986 order of 0D36 and 0D37
987 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
988 chillu characters
989 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
990 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
991 receiving data
992 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
993 whitespace
994 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
995 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
996 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
997 for Peru
998 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
999 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
1000 failures consistently
1001 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
1002 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
1003 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
1004 frame-pointer on i386
1005 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
1006 register
1007 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
1008 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
1009 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
1010 generic c code is used
1011 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
1012 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
1013 around 4000
1014 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
1015 (CVE-2017-12133)
1016 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
1017 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
1018 with -lieee
1019 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
1020 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
1021 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
1022 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
1023 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
1024 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
1025 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
1026 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
1027 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
1028 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
1029 remove()
1030 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
1031 checked for errors.
1032 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
1033 new posix_spawn implementation
1034 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
1035 leads to lower CPU frequency
1036 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
1037 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
1038 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
1039 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
1040 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
1041 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
1042 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
1043 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
1044 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
1045 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
1046 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
1047 not support gethostbyname4_r
1048 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
1049 switching
1050 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
1051 arenas
1052 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
1053 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
1054 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
1055 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
1056 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
1057 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
1058 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
1059 and _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1060 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
1061 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
1062 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
1063 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
1064 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
1065 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
1066 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
1067 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
1068 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
1069 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
1070 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
1071 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
1072 retry value
1073 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
1074 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
1075 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
1076 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
1077 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
1078 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
1079 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
1080 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
1081 [21537] libc:
1082 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
1083 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
1084 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
1085 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
1086 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
1087 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
1088 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
1089 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
1090 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
1091 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
1092 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
1093 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
1094 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
1095 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
1096 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
1097 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
1098 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
1099 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
1100 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
1101 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
1102 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
1103 issue on x86-64
1104 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
1105 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
1106 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
1107 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
1108 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
1109 construction
1110 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
1111 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
1112 between_2_3
1113 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
1114 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
1115 conditions
1116 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
1117 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
1118 Hindi Locale
1119 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
1120 posix/sched_cpucount.c
1121 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
1122 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
1123 locale
1124 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
1125 leading to relocation crash
1126 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
1127 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
1128 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
1129 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
1130 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
1131 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
1132 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
1133 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
1134 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
1135 locale
1136 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
1137 locale
1138 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
1139 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
1140 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
1141 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
1142 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
1143 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
1144 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
1145 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
1146 strings
1147 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
1148 protector=all
1149 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
1150 ar_JO/ar_LB/ar_SY
1151 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
1152 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
1153 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
1154 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
1155 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
1156 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
1157 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
1158 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
1159 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
1160 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
1161 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
1162 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
1163 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
1164 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
1165 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
1166 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
1167 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
1168 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1169 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
1170 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
1171 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
1172 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
1173 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
1174 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
1175 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
1176 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
1177 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
1178 with unicode 9.0
1179 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
1180 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
1181 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
1182 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
1183 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
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1187
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1188* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
1189 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
1190 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
1191 Library.
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1193* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1194 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
a5ac5676 1195 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
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1196 the GNU C Library.
1197
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1198* The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
1199 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
1200 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
1201 the GNU C Library.
1202
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1203* The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
1204 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
1205 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
1206 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
1207 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
1208 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
1209 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
1210 will not.
1211
1212 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
1213 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
1214 many years.
1215
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1217 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
1218 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
1219
1220 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
1221 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
1222 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
1223 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
1224 problem.
1225
ec94343f 1226* New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
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1228 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
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1230* Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
1231 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
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1232 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
1233 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
1234 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
1235 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
1236 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
1237 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
1238 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
1239 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
1240 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
1241 WINT_WIDTH.
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1243* New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
1244
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1245 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
1246
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1247 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
1248 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
1249 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
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1251 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
1252 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
1253
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1254 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
1255 fminmagf, fminmagl.
1256
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1257 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
1258
29cb9293 1259 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
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1261 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
1262 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
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1264 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
1265
eb3c12c7 1266 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
457663a7 1267 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
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1269* The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
1270 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
1271
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1272* Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
1273 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
1274 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
1275
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1276* The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
1277 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
1278 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
1279 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
1280 effects of the memory clear).
1281
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1282* On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
1283 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1284 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1285 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
1286
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1287* On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
1288 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
1289 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
1290 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
1291 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
1292 if they are compiled or used with those options.
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1294* The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
1295 have been added.
1296
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1297* The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
1298 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
1299 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
1300 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
1301 as large as several megabytes.
1302
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1303* The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
1304 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
1305 been removed.
1306
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1307* The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
1308 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
1309 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
1310 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
1311 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
1312 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
1313 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
1314
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1315* The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
1316 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
1317 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
1318 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
1319
099191b1 1320* The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
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1321 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
1322 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
1323 Internet.
1324
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1325* The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
1326 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
1327 They were already unimplemented.
bfbd1de1 1328
b76e0659
FW
1329* The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
1330 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
1331 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
1332 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
1333
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1334* DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
1335 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
1336 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
1337 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
1338 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
1339
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1340* The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
1341 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
1342 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
1343 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
1344 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
1345
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1346* The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
1347 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
1348 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
1349 did not reflect that.
1350
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1351* For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
1352 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
1353 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
1354 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
1355 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
1356 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
1357 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
1358 'gcc/config.gcc'.
1359
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1360* GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
1361 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
1362 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
1363 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
1364
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1365* Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
1366 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
1367 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
1368 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
1369
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1370* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
1371 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
1372 guarantees.
1373
1374* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
1375 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
1376 make state changes.
1377
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1378Security related changes:
1379
fc82b0a2 1380* On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
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1381 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
1382 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
1383 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
056dd72a 1384 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
e720d3d9 1385
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FW
1386* The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
1387 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
1388 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
1389 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
1390 (CVE-2015-5180)
1391
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1392The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1393
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1394 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
1395 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
1396 protector-all
1397 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
1398 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
1399 before it started waiting
1400 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
1401 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
1402 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
1403 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
1404 wrong type
1405 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
1406 library linked with pthread
1407 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
1408 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
1409 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
1410 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
1411 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
1412 after being __libc_memalign()'d
1413 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
1414 when it shouldnt
1415 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
1416 not
1417 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
1418 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
1419 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
1420 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
1421 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
1422 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
1423 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
1424 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
1425 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
1426 termination
1427 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
1428 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
1429 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
1430 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
1431 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
1432 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
1433 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
1434 causes a segmentation fault
1435 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
1436 linking
1437 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
1438 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
1439 uninitialized GOT
1440 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
1441 versions
1442 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
1443 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
1444 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
1445 is always true.
1446 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
1447 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
1448 modes
1449 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
1450 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
1451 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
1452 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
1453 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
1454 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
1455 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
1456 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
1457 libpthread.a
1458 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
1459 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
1460 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
1461 _res_hconf
1462 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
1463 information.
1464 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
1465 penalty
1466 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
1467 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
1468 cause transition penalty
1469 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
1470 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
1471 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
1472 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
1473 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
1474 mcount.oS)
1475 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
1476 Checking
1477 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
1478 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
1479 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
1480 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
1481 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
1482 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
1483 multi-arch
1484 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
1485 (RES_USEBSTRING)
1486 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
1487 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
1488 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
1489 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
1490 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
1491 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
1492 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
1493 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
1494 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
1495 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
1496 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
1497 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
1498 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
1499 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
1500 glibc
1501 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
1502 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
1503 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
1504 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
1505 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
1506 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
1507 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
1508 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
1509 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
1510 U+20AC), not same as GBK
1511 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
1512 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
1513 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
1514 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
1515 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
1516 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
1517 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
1518 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
1519 RES_USE_INET6
1520 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1521 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
1522 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
1523 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
1524 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
1525 wrong condition
1526 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
1527 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
1528 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
1529 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
1530 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
1531 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
1532 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
1533 clang
1534 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
1535 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
1536 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
1537 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
1538 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
e720d3d9 1539\f
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1540Version 2.24
1541
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1542* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1543 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
1544 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
1545 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
1546 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
1547 architectures.
1548
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MF
1549* The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
1550 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
1551 been included in previous releases.
11fca961 1552
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1553* The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
1554 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
1555
b49ab5f4
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1556* The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
1557 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
1558 instead of “union wait”.
1559
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SG
1560* A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
1561 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
1562 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
1563 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
1564 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
1565 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
1566 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
1567
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1568* The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
1569 API.
1570
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MF
1571* The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
1572 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
1573 drop it.
6a54bcda 1574
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RS
1575* nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
1576 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
1577 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
1578 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
1579 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
1580 extensions.
1581
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1582Security related changes:
1583
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1584* An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
1585 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
1586 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
1587
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1588* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
1589 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
1590 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
1591 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
11fca961 1592
5171f307
FW
1593* The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
1594 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
1595 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
1596
bc779a1a
FW
1597* The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
1598 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
1599 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
1600
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1601* The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
1602 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
1603 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
1604 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
1605
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1606The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1607
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1608 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
1609 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
1610 of MS-DOS.
1611 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
1612 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
1613 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
1614 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
1615 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
1616 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
1617 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
1618 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
1619 CLDR data
1620 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
1621 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
1622 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
1623 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
1624 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
1625 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
1626 romanisation
1627 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
1628 and +/-
1629 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
1630 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
1631 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
1632 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
1633 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
1634 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
1635 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
1636 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
1637 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
1638 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
1639 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
1640 all locales
1641 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
1642 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
1643 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
1644 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
1645 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
1646 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
1647 execute
1648 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
1649 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
1650 -Wsystem-headers
1651 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
1652 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
1653 Romanian locale data
1654 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
1655 symbol
1656 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
1657 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
1658 language
1659 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
1660 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
1661 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
1662 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
1663 machine
1664 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
1665 description
1666 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
1667 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
1668 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
1669 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1670 when using RTLD_NEXT
1671 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1672 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1673 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1674 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1675 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1676 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1677 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1678 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1679 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1680 Excavator core
1681 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1682 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1683 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1684 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1685 double range
1686 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1687 part zero incorrect
1688 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1689 equality tests
1690 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1691 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1692 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1693 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1694 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1695 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1696 glibc-2.22
1697 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1698 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1699 'tst-numeric.c'
1700 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1701 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1702 low part
1703 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1704 result
1705 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1706 unaligned stack
1707 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1708 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1709 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1710 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1711 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1712 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1713 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1714 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1715 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1716 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1717 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1718 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1719 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1720 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1721 modes
1722 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1723 server addresses
1724 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1725 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1726 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1727 response to getaddrinfo
1728 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1729 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1730 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1731 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1732 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1733 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1734 sometimes incorrect
1735 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1736 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1737 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1738 record types
1739 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1740 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1741 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1742 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1743 (CVE-2016-3075)
1744 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1745 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1746 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1747 resolving symbols
1748 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1749 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1750 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1751 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1752 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1753 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1754 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1755 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1756 gethosts
1757 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1758 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1759 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1760 (CVE-2016-3706)
1761 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1762 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1763 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1764 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1765 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1766 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1767 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1768 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1769 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1770 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1771 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1772 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1773 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1774 executable
1775 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1776 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1777 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1778 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1779 XPG3
1780 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1781 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1782 (CVE-2016-4429)
1783 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1784 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1785 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1786 AS not supporting AVX512
1787 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1788 sNaN argument
1789 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1790 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1791 argument
1792 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1793 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1794 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1795 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1796 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1797 eax=0x80000001
1798 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1799 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1800 subnormals
1801 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1802 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1803 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1804 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1805 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1806 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1807 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1808 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1809 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1810 input
1811 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1812 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1813 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1814 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1815 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1816 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1817 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1818 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1819 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1820 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1821 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1822 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1823 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1824 double rounding
1825 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1826 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1827 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1828 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1829 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1830 (Only arm/linux)
1831 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1832 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1833 fallbacks
1834 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1835 "invalid" exceptions
1836 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1837 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1838 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1839 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1840 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1841 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1842 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1843 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1844 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
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1846Version 2.23
1847
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1848* Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1849 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1850 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1851 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1852 89, 16061, and 18568.
1853
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1854* sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1855 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1856 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1857 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1858 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1859 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1860 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1861
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1862* The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1863 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1864 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1865
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1866* getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1867 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1868 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1869 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1870 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1871 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1872 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1873
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1874* A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1875 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1876 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1877 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1878 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
de51ff8c 1879 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
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1880 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1881 Ericsson.)
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1883* There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1884 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1885 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1886 independent of the GNU C Library.
1887
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1888* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1889 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
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1891* The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1892 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1893 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1894 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1895 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1896 Linux kernel.
1897
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1898* Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1899 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
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1901* Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1902 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1903 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1904 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1905 defining their own copy.
1906
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1907* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1908 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1909 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
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1911Security related changes:
1912
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1913* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1914 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1915
1916* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1917 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1918 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1919 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1920 (CVE-2015-8777)
1921
1922* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1923 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1924
1925* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1926 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1927
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1928* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1929 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
6400ae6e 1930 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
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1932* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1933 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1934 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1935 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1936 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1937 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1938 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1939 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1940 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1941 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1942 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1943 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1944 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1945
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1948 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1949 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1950 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1951 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1952 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1953 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1954 use `mkstemp'
1955 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1956 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1957 overflow/underflow errors
1958 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1959 overflow/underflow
1960 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1961 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1962 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1963 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1964 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1965 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1966 are not contiguous
1967 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1968 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1969 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1970 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1971 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1972 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1973 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1974 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1975 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1976 all exceptions
1977 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1978 arguments
1979 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1980 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1981 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1982 should include
1983 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1984 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1985 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1986 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1987 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1988 GNU/Linux
1989 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1990 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1991 arguments
1992 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1993 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1994 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1995 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1996 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1997 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1998 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1999 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
2000 rounding results
2001 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
2002 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
2003 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
2004 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
2005 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
2006 fails
2007 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
2008 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
2009 block boundary
2010 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
2011 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
2012 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
2013 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
2014 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
2015 4.7?
2016 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
2017 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
2018 (related to lock elision)
2019 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
2020 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
2021 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
2022 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
2023 (CVE-2015-8779)
2024 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
2025 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
2026 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
2027 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
2028 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
2029 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
2030 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
2031 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
2032 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
2033 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
2034 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
2035 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
2036 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
2037 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
2038 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
2039 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
2040 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
2041 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
2042 contains a vector instruction exception.
2043 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
2044 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
2045 locales
2046 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
2047 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
2048 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
2049 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
2050 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
2051 missing break ?
2052 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
2053 32bit processes
2054 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
2055 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
2056 infinity
2057 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
2058 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
2059 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
2060 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
2061 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
2062 be forced unloaded
2063 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
2064 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
2065 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
2066 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
2067 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
2068 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
2069 statically too large
2070 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
2071 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
2072 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
2073 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
2074 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
2075 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
2076 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
2077 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
2078 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
2079 FUTEX_SHARED
2080 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
2081 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
2082 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
2083 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
2084 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
2085 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
2086 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
2087 opendir()
2088 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
2089 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
2090 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
2091 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
2092 signgam
2093 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
2094 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
2095 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
2096 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
2097 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
2098 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
2099 dependencies
2100 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
2101 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
2102 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
2103 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
2104 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
2105 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
2106 (CVE-2015-8776)
2107 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
2108 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
2109 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
2110 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
2111 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
2112 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2113 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
2114 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
2115 contention
2116 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
2117 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
2118 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
2119 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
2120 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
2121 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
2122 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
2123 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
2124 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
2125 rounding modes
2126 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
2127 ILP32
2128 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
2129 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
2130 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
2131 threshold
2132 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
2133 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
2134 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
2135 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
2136 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
2137 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
2138 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
2139 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
2140 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
2141 pthread_setaffinity_np
2142 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
2143 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
2144 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
2145 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
2146 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
2147 prelink
2148 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
2149 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
2150 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
2151 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
2152 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2153 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
2154 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
2155 bits/mathcalls.h
2156 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
2157 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
2158 for C99-based standards
2159 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
2160 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
2161 math-only
2162 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
2163 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
2164 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
2165 disabled
2166 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
2167 "inexact" exceptions
2168 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
2169 arguments
2170 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
2171 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
2172 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
2173 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
2174 rules
2175 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
2176 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
2177 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
2178 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
2179 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
2180 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
2181 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
2182 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
2183 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
2184 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
2185 from 32bit
2186 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
2187 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
2188 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
2189 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
2190 subnormals
2191 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
2192 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
2193 error on 32-bit architectures
2194 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
2195 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
2196 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
2197 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
2198 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
2199 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
2200 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
2201 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
2202 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
2203 -Os
2204 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
2205 CPU's.
2206 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
2207 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
2208 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
2209 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
2210 architectures
2211 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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2213Version 2.22
2214
2215* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2216
3df5cd98 2217 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
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2218 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
2219 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
2220 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
2221 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
2222 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
2223 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
2224 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
2225 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
2226 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
2227 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
2228 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
2229 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
2230 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
2231 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
2232 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
2233 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
2234 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
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2235 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
2236 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
2959eda9 2237
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2238* Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
2239 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
2240
2959eda9
AS
2241* A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
2242 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
2243 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
2244 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
2245 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
2246 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4a4839c9 2247
42261ad7
FW
2248* The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
2249 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
2250 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
2251 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
2252 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
2253
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2254* A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
2255 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
2256 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
2257
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AO
2258* Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
2259 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
2260 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
2261 17998.
2262
b13b96ca
AS
2263* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
2264 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
2265 condition in some applications.
21933112
AS
2266
2267* Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
a6336cc4
AS
2268 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
2269 pow, powf.
21933112
AS
2270 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
2271 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
037e4b99
AS
2272 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
2273 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
21933112 2274 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
fdb7d390
AZ
2275
2276* A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
2277 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
2278 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
2279 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
7fde904c
MF
2280
2281* The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
2282 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
2283 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
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RM
2284
2285* Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
2286 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
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ZW
2287
2288* The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
2289 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
2290 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
2291
a03ba363 2292 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
2ec11c2b
ZW
2293 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
2294 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
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2296Version 2.21
2297
2298* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2299
042e1521 2300 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
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2301 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
2302 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
2303 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
2304 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
2305 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
2306 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
2307 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
2308 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
2309 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
2310 17892.
2311
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FW
2312* CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
2313 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
2314 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
2315 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
2316 intended.
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2317
2318* A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
2319 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
2320 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
2321 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
2322 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
2323 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
a39208bd 2324
522e6ee3
CLT
2325* Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
2326
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AZ
2327* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
2328 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
8bedcb5f 2329 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
96d6fd6c 2330
8d2c0a59
AZ
2331* Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
2332 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
2333 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
2334 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
2335 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
2336 effects being visible outside transactions.
2337
dc400d7b
RE
2338* Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
2339 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
ec582ca0 2340
0f9dfe04
L
2341* i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
2342
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2343* CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
2344 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
ebda2f17 2345 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
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CD
2346 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
2347 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
fb89b46d 2348
a5357b7c
JL
2349* CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
2350 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
2351
e54db0ea
AM
2352* CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
2353 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
2354 format.
11e3417a 2355
4863355a
JM
2356* The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
2357 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
2358 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
2359
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JM
2360* The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
2361 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
2362
0d560bbf 2363* New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
0781a777
RM
2364
2365* The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
2366 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
2367 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
2368 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
6d248857
WN
2369
2370* Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
2371 with newer versions of bison.
28c38448
MF
2372
2373* Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
2374 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
2375 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
2376 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
2377 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
2378 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
2379 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
2380 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
2381 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
2382 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
2383 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
2384 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
2385 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
2386
2387 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
2388 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
2389 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
2390 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
2391 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
58b930ae 2392\f
d5b396c1
AM
2393Version 2.20
2394
2395* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2396
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2397 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
2398 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
2399 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
2400 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
2401 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
2402 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
2403 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
2404 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
2405 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
2406 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
2407 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
2408 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
2409 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
2410 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
2411 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
0961f7e1 2412
95ee7fb1
SL
2413* Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2414 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
2415 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
2416 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
2417 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
45ef6628 2418 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
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SL
2419 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
2420 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
2421 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
2422 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
2423
0961f7e1
JL
2424* Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
2425 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
2426 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
2427 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
2428 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
f3d338c9 2429
f940b965
RE
2430* Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
2431
d0f5b3f8
JM
2432* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2433 can be used with is 2.6.32.
2434
d6fe5e58
JM
2435* Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
2436 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
2437 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
2438 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
2439 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
2440 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
2441
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JM
2442* The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
2443 from ports.
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JM
2444
2445* The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
2446 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
2447 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
2448 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
2449 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
2450 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
2451 test macros defined.
f63c86fe
WN
2452
2453* Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5a414ff7
DV
2454
2455* Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
2456 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
2457 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
2458 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
2459 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
2460 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
2461 is not built.
d03efb2f
AM
2462
2463* CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
2464 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
2465 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
2466 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
2467 invocation.
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JM
2468
2469* All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
2470 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
2471 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
f083450f
RM
2472
2473* The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
2474 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
2475 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
2476 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
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FW
2477
2478* Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
2479 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
2480 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
2481 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
2482 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
2483 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
2484 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
2485 additional checks.
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2486
2487* On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
2488 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
2489 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
2490 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
2491 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
2492 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
2493 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
2494 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
2495 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
a1a6a401
FW
2496
2497* Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
2498 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
2499 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
2500 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
2501 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
f9df71e8 2502 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
41488498
FW
2503
2504* Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
2505 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
2506 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
2507 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
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2508\f
2509Version 2.19
2510
2511* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2512
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JM
2513 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
2514 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
2515 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
2516 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
2517 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
2518 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
2519 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
2520 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
2521 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
2522 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
ed27ed83
JM
2523 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
2524 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
2525 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
2526 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
2527 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
798212a0
PP
2528 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
2529 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
2530 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
141f3a77 2531
11520a57
CD
2532* Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
2533 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
2534
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CD
2535* The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
2536 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
2537 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
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CD
2538 extension which uses __block.
2539
303e567a
SP
2540* CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
2541 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
2542 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
2543 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
2544 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
2545
141f3a77
SP
2546* CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
2547 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
2548 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
2549 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
2550 if malloc fails.
c61b4d41
CD
2551
2552* CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
2553 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
2554 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
2555 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
2556 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
91ce4085
FW
2557
2558* CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
2559 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
2560 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
2561
ba0d798c
WN
2562* CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
2563 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
2564 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
2565 #15856, #15857).
2566
7cbcdb36
SP
2567* CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
2568 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
2569
82bab04b 2570* New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
b46d046e 2571 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
ddd9fb8f 2572
c5f840fd
MB
2573* Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
2574
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CD
2575* The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
2576 supported locales.
ddd9fb8f 2577
3e181dda 2578* ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
7447ccd9 2579
8a05c252
CL
2580* ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
2581
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JM
2582* The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
2583 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
2584 for which the C library was built.
2585
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JM
2586* Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
2587 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
2588 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
2589 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
2590 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
2591 in the following circumstances:
2592
2593 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
2594
2595 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
2596 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
2597
d4f66d37
JM
2598* The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
2599 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
2600
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2601* ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
2602 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
e35696c3 2603
ffb89e53
AO
2604* SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
2605
5d29ccce
SP
2606* SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
2607 transcendental functions have been introduced.
2608
8b7d57cd 2609* Support for powerpc64le has been added.
b125d3e5
JM
2610
2611* The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
0a3ac0aa 2612
fd712ef3 2613* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
7011c262 2614
c688b419
JM
2615* A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
2616 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
2617 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
2618 disable some of those declarations.
2619
7011c262 2620* The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
029c7b25
JM
2621 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
2622 that did nothing) has also been removed.
0a57b83e
AO
2623
2624* Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
2625 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
ee4ec1d7
AK
2626
2627* Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
2628 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
2629 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
2630 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
2631 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
2632 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
2633 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
2634 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
2635 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
2636 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
2637 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
2638 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
2639 require recompilation.
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2640\f
2641Version 2.18
2642
2643* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2644
17db6e8d 2645 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
0432680e
PY
2646 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
2647 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
8c17cb1f
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2648 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
2649 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
2650 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
2651 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
2652 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
2653 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
2654 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
2655 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
2656 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
2657 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
2658 15755, 15759.
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2659
2660* CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
2661 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
2662 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
2663 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
2664 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
2665 understands and accepts the risks.
1cef1b19 2666
5b535ac4
AS
2667* CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2668 #15078).
2669
1cef1b19
AS
2670* CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2671 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
7fffbdff 2672
55e4107b
SP
2673* Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2674 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2675 destructor calls to glibc.
2676
e5c74c63
SP
2677* Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2678 output.
2679
2680* Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2681 non-x86 architectures.
2682
e7521973
JM
2683* Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2684
2685* Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2686
2687* Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2688 Richard Henderson.
2689
2690* Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2691
2692* Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2693 Richard Henderson.
2694
2695* Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2696 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2697
8cfdb7e0
SP
2698* Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2699
57267616
TS
2700* New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2701 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
58206c68 2702
c204ab28
SP
2703* On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2704 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
61dd6208 2705
0748546f
PE
2706* Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2707 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2708 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2709
61dd6208
SP
2710* Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2711 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2712 attributes of a process.
a7cb9d67
AK
2713
2714* Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2715 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2716 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2717 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2718 mutexes.
be063fa4
RA
2719
2720* Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2721 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2722
2723* Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
370ca3d2
JM
2724\f
2725Version 2.17
2726
2727* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2728
80ceeaee 2729 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
b4180a5e
AJ
2730 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2731 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2732 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2733 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2734 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2735 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2736 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2737 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2738 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2739 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2740 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2741 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2742 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2743 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
14bc93a9 2744
95b4f1b6
SE
2745* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2746
14bc93a9
JL
2747* CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2748 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
7a845b2c 2749
b54eb3cb
JM
2750* The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2751 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2752
7e2bd01f
MS
2753* Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2754
08f43f9b
AK
2755* Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2756 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2757 zEnterprise z196.
2758 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2759
84b3fd84
FW
2760* The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2761 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2762 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2763
815e6fa3
GB
2764* SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2765 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2766
400726de
MK
2767* Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2768 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2769
7aab07e4 2770* The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
6dad2c06 2771 can be used with is 2.6.16.
7aab07e4 2772
15d0da8c
WS
2773* Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2774 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2775
3cc3ef96
RM
2776* New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2777 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
c53d909c
RM
2778 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2779 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
3cc3ef96 2780
b54eb3cb
JM
2781* Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2782 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2783
85429b1a 2784* Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
0d224d52 2785 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
85429b1a
DM
2786 default.
2787
b54eb3cb
JM
2788* New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2789 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2790 information in --help and --version output.
2791
050af9c4
SP
2792* The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2793 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2794 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2795
89a3ad0b
AO
2796* The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2797 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2798 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2799 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2800 when the mode is enabled.
2801
6e6249d0
RM
2802* The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2803 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2804 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2805 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2806 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2807 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2808 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5a04f376 2809
d9286582
NK
2810* New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2811 sat_IN, and szl_PL.
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UD
2812\f
2813Version 2.16
2814
2815* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2816
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2817 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2818 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2819 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2820 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2821 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2822 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2823 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2824 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2825 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2826 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2827 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2828 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2829 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2830 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2831 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2832 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2833 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2834 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2835 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2836 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2837 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2838 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2839 14277, 14278.
380d7e87 2840
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L
2841* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2842 configuring glibc with:
2843 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2844 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2845 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2846
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2847* ISO C11 support:
2848
2849 + define static_assert
2850
2851 + do not declare gets
2852
2853 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2854
2855 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2856 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2857 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2858 implementation.
8d44e150 2859
74033a25 2860 + timespec_get added
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2861
2862 + uchar.h support added
d75a0a62 2863
ac097f5c
UD
2864 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2865
16dd419d
UD
2866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2867
9dc4e1fb 2868* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
33808bf1
UD
2869
2870* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
d9a216c0
UD
2871
2872* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2873 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
daa891c0
UD
2874
2875* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2876 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
021db4be
AJ
2877
2878* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2879 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2880 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2881 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2882 existing applications.
ffb7875d 2883
21708942 2884* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
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2885 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2886 before 2.6.
83678f76 2887
edb00e4d
RH
2888* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2889 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2890 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2891
83678f76 2892* New locales: mag_IN
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2893
2894* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2895 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2896 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2897 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2898 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
47e452cf
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2899
2900* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2901
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2902* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2903 and Will Schmidt.
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JM
2904
2905* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2906
2907* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2908 without a previously built glibc.
2909
2910* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2911 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2912
2913* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2914 now supported for ARM processors.
2915
2916* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2917 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2918 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2919
2920* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
d9dc34cd
TMQMF
2921
2922* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2923 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2924 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2925 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
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AJ
2926
2927* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2928 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2929 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2930 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
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2931
2932* Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2933 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2934 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2935 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2936 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2937
2938* Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2939 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2940 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2941 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
ee1a7fab 2942\f
e80fab37 2943Version 2.15
11988f8f 2944
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2945* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2946
aebae053
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2947 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2948 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2949 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2950 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2951 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2952 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2953 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
c0244a9d 2954
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2955* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2956 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
9f2da732
UD
2957
2958* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2959 and support for initgroups lookups.
2960 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
0b1cbaae
L
2961
2962* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2963 Contributed by HJ Lu.
8912479f
L
2964
2965* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2966 Contributed by HJ Lu.
99710781 2967
fc2ee42a
LD
2968* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2969 on x86-32 and x86-64.
99710781 2970 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
c55fbd1e 2971
d42964a0 2972* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
693fb948
LD
2973 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2974
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2976 for x86-64 and x86-32.
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2978
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2979* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2981
2982* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2983 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2985* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2986 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2988* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2989 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2991* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2992 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2993
2994* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2995 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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2997* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
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2999* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
3000 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3002* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
3003 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2655fd5c 3004
6b64057b 3005* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
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3010
553149f6 3011 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
873ca504 3012 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
3cf74f8a 3013 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
7ae22829 3014 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
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3016 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
3017 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
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3018 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
3019 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
f16846a5 3020 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
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3023 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
3024 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6b1e7d19 3025 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
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3026
3027 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
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3028 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
3029 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
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3030 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3031
c6489db3 3032* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
f1f929d7 3033 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
83fe108b 3034
72d1dddb 3035* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
a7b80ed5 3036 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
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3038* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
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3040* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
3041 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3043* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
3044 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
3045 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
3046 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
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3049
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3051
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3052 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
3053 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
3054 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
3055 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
3056 12378, 12394, 12397
ac2b484c 3057
10b3bedc 3058* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
c08fb0d7 3059
ac2b484c 3060* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
8d50becc 3061
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3062* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
3063 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
8d50becc 3064 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3066Version 2.12
3067
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3069
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3070 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
3071 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
3072 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
3073 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
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3074 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
3075 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
3076 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5ae958d7 3077 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
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3078
3079* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
d36b9613 3080
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3081* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
3082
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3083* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
3084
3085* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
3086 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
3087 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3088
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3089* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
3090 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
3091 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
3092 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
3093 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3094
d36b9613 3095* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
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3097Version 2.11
3098
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3099* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3100
3101 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
3102 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
3103 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
3104 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
3105 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
3106 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
3107
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3108* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
3109 mkostemps64
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3110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3111
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3113 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3114
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3115* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
3116 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3117
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3118* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
3119
0122f28e 3120* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
9d36a6c4 3121 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
7f3146e7 3122 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
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3123 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3124
9d36a6c4 3125 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
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3126 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3127
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3128* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
3129 strstr, strcasestr.
3130 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
3131
3132* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
3133 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
3134
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3135* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
3136 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
3137
3138* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
3139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3140
3141* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
3142 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
3143 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
3144 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
3145 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
3146 necessity is every process again.
3147 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3148
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3149* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
3150 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
3151
3152* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
3153 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
3154
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3155* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
3156 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
3157 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3158
9dd5b8a1 3159* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
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3161Version 2.10
3162
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3163* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3164
3165 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
3166 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
3167 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
3168 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
3169 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
3170
bb066545 3171* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
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3172 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3173
425ce2ed 3174* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
e109c612 3175 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6f5c3117 3176
1fdd89a7 3177* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
735be400 3178 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
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3180* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
3181 now in POSIX.
77db439e 3182
1f04d005 3183* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6cbe890a 3184 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
1f04d005 3185
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3186* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
3187 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3188
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3189* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
3190 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3191
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3192* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
3193 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3194
3195* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
3196 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
3197 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3198
735be400 3199* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
878b72c5 3200
84aa52d7 3201* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
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3202 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3203
3204* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
3205 and extend existing format specifiers.
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3206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3207
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3208* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
3209 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3210
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3211* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
3212 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
3213 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
3214 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
3215 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
3216 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3218Version 2.9
3219
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3220* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3221
3222 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
3223 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
3224 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
3225 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
3226 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
3227
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3229 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3230
3231* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
3232 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
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3233
3234* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
3235 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3237* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
3238 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
3239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3240
3241* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
3242 Implemented by Eric Blake.
e038616f 3243
8ec2550e 3244* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
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3245
3246* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
ebcc1f4d 3247 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
e038616f 3248
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3249* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
3250 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
3251 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
3252 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3253
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3254* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
3255 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3257* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
3258 Sinhala)
48b22986 3259 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
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3261* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
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3264
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3265* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3266
3267 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
3268 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
3269 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
3270 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
3271 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
3272 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
3273 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
3274
e038616f 3275* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
b4354cf4 3276
77751669 3277* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
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3279* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
3280 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
3281
3282* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
3283
3284* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
3285 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3286
3287* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
3288 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3289
3290* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
3291 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
3292 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3293
3294* Faster memset for x86-64.
3295 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
3296
3297* Faster memcpy on x86.
3298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3299
3300* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
3301 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3303* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
d990b282 3304 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
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3306Version 2.7
3307
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3309
3310 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
3311 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
3312 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
3313 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
3314 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
3315
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3317 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3318
3319* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3320
3321* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
3322 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
3323 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
3324
3325* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
3326 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
3327
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3329 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3330
3331* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3332
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3333* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
3334 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3335
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3336* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
3337 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3338
3339* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
3340 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
3341
3342* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3343
3344* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
3345 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3347* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
3348 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
3349 yo_NG.
3350
3351+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
3352 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3357
3358 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3359 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3360 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3361 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3362 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
3363 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
3364 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
3365 4702, 4858
3366
bce20b9a 3367* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
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3370
b21fa963 3371* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3373Version 2.5
3374
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3375* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3376
3377 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
3378 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
3379 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
3380 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
3381 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
3382 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
3383 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3384 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3385 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
3386
3af48b5b 3387* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
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3388 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
3389 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3392 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3393
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3396* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
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3398* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
3399 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
3400 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
457b559e 3401 site might have problems with the default behavior.
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3402 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3403
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3405 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
3406 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
3407 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3408
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3409* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
3410 Ulrich Drepper.
3411
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3412* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3413
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3414* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
3415 Ulrich Drepper.
3416
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3417* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
3418
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3419* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
3420 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
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3423
3424* More overflow detection functions.
3425
3426* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
3427 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
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3429 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
3430 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
3431 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
3432 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
3433 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
3434 by Masahide Washizawa.
3435
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3436* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
3437 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3439* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
3440 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
3441 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
3442 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
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3444* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
3445 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
3446
3447* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
3448
3449* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
3450 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
3451 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
3452
3453* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
3454 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
3455
3456* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
3457 for compatibility with some other systems.
3458
3459* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
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3461Version 2.3.6
3462
3463* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3464
3465 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
3466 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
3467 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
3468 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
3469 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
3470 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
3471
3472 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
3473
3474* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
3475
3476* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
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3478Version 2.3.5
3479
3480* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3481
3482 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
3483 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
3484 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
3485 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
3486
3487 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
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3490
3491* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
3492 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3493
3494* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
3495 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
3496 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3497
3498* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
3499 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
3500
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3502 efficiently.
3503 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3504
3505* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
3506 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
3507 handling data.
3508
3509* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
3510 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
0325dd20 3511 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3512
3513* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
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3514 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3515
3516* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
3517 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
3518 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
3519 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3520
3521* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
3522 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
3523 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
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3524 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
3525
3526* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
3527 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
3528 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
3529 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
3530 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
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3532Version 2.3.3
3533
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3534* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
3535 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
3536
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3537* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
3538 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
925c3c5c 3539
69be6aaf 3540* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
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3541 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
3542
3543* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
3544 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3545
3546* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
3547 by Roland McGrath.
3548
c5af724c 3549* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
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3550 and Ulrich Drepper.
3551
3552* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
3553 RFC 3484.
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3555Version 2.3.2
3556
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3557* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
3558 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
3559 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
3560 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
3561 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
3562 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
3563 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
3564 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
3565 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
3566
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3567* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
3568 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
3569 and are now also available on the Hurd.
3570
3571* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
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3572
3573* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
3574 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
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3576* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
3577 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
3578
52a16e58 3579* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
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3581* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
3582 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
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3583
3584* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
3585 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
3586 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
3587 of weak definition in ld.so.
3588
3589* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
3590 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
3591
3592* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
3593 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
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3597* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
3598 charsets.
3599
3600* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
3601 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
47e8b443 3602
bb0ec5bd 3603* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
47e8b443 3604 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
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3606* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
3607 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
8e57fc70 3608
bb0ec5bd 3609* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
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3610 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
3611 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3612
3613* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
3614 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
3b0bdc72 3615
bb0ec5bd 3616* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
3b0bdc72 3617 implementation of regex.
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3618
3619* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
3620 Unicode 3.2.
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3622* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
3623 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
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3625* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
3626 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
3627 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
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3628
3629* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
f87277f2 3630 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
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3631
3632* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
3633 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
3634 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
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3635
3636* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
3637 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
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3638
3639* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
3640 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
3641 and Ulrich Drepper.
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3643* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
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3645Version 2.2.6
3646
3647* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
3648 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
3649
3650* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
3651 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
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3653Version 2.2.5
3654
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3655* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
3656 128-bit long double format.
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3658* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
3659 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
a8ae31c2 3660
ad2e4f18 3661* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
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3663* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
3664
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3665* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
3666 as well.
3667
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3668* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
3669 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
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3670
3671* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
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3673Version 2.2.4
3674
2995f70e 3675* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
aff17a50 3676 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
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3677
3678* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3679 support Unicode 3.1.
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3680
3681* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3682 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
045fcd26 3683
69d5f925 3684* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
045fcd26 3685
69d5f925 3686* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
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3687 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3688 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3689
3690* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3691 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3692
3693* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3694 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
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3696* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
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3698Version 2.2.3
3699
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3701 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3702 in float, double, and long double format.
3703
f128331c 3704* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
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3705 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3706 128-bit long double format.
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3708* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3709 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3710 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3711 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
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3713* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3714 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3715 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
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3716
3717* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3718 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
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3719
3720* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3721 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
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3723* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3724 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3725 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
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3726
3727* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3728 family of functions for Linux/S390.
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3730* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3731 of functions for Linux/x86.
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3733* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
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3735Version 2.2.2
3736
464d97ec 3737* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
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3738 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3739 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3740 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3741 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3742 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3743 other headers.
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3745* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3746 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3747
3748* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3749 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3750 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3751 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3752
3753* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3754 locales. While
3755
3756 locale -a
3757
3758 only lists the names of the supported locales
3759
3760 locale -a --verbose
3761
3762 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3763 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
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3766
3767* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3768 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3769 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3770 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3771 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3772
3773 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3774
3775 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3776
3777 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
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3779* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3780 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3781 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
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3783* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3784 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3785
3786* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3787 changed from the default "C" locale.
3788
3789* The usual bug fixes.
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3792
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3793* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3794 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3795 is in progress.
3796
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3797* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3798
793bd4d9 3799* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
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3801 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3802 obviously requires a database library being available.
3803
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3804* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3805
abbffdf9 3806* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
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3808* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3809 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3810
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3811* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3812
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3813* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3814 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3815 and Mark Kettenis.
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3816
3817 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3818 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3819 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
66ac0abe 3820
a00c3ca9 3821 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
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3822 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3823
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3824* Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3825 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3826 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3827
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3829 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3830 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3832
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3833 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3834 structures for the wide character tables.
3835
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3836* Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3837
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3838* The utmp daemon has been removed.
3839
3840* The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3841
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3842* A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3843 and Yutaka Niibe.
3844
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3845* POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3846
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3847* POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3848
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3849* POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3850
3851* POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3852
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3853* Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3854
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3855* the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3856 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3857 implemented for Linux.
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3859* the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3860 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3861 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3862 versions.
3863
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3864* various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3865 Masahide Washizawa.
3866
8f3f1e09 3867* IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
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3870
3871* bug fixes
3872
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3875
3876* bug fixes
3877
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3879Version 2.1.1
3880
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3883* New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3884
407d26b7 3885* Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
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3886
3887* Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3888
407d26b7 3889* New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
16b0f634 3890
407d26b7 3891* Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
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3892
3893* Update timezone data files.
27995311 3894
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3895* lots of charmaps corrections
3896
3897* some new locale definitions and charmaps
3898
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3900Version 2.1
3901
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3902* Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3903 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3904 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3905 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3906 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3907 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3908
c84142e8 3909* An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
1fb05e3d 3910 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
c84142e8 3911
1fb05e3d 3912* Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
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3913 symbol level.
3914
3915* Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3916 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
377a515b 3917
cbdee279 3918* strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
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3919
3920* printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
cbdee279 3921 numbers.
377a515b 3922
cbdee279 3923* scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
e61abf83 3924
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3925* the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3926 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
e61abf83 3927
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3928* about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3929 library.
3930
e61abf83 3931* the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
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3932 functions from ISO C 9X.
3933
3934* the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3935 real valued functions.
e61abf83 3936
a5a0310d 3937* Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
e61abf83 3938
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3939* Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3940
3941* Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
cbdee279 3942
440d13e2 3943* Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
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3944
3945* Optimized string functions have been added.
3946
3947* The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
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3948
3949* An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
ea278354 3950
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3951* Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3952 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3953
3954 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3955 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3956
0dee6738 3957 user system wall
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0dee6738 3959 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
48244d09 3960
0dee6738 3961 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
48244d09 3962
0dee6738 3963 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
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3965 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3966
3967 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3968
3969 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
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3971 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3972 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
0dee6738 3973 horribly slow.
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3975 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3976 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
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3978* Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
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3979
3980* Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
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3981
3982* The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3983 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3984
3985* rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
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3987* A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3988 Bambrough.
3989
3990* Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3991 latest draft standards.
3992
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3994
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3995* Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3996~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
62595351 3997addseverity NEW: Unix98
48244d09 3998alphasort64 NEW: LFS
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3999argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
4000argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
4001argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
4002argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4003argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
4004argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
4005argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
4006argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
4007argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
4008argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
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4009authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
4010authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
4011authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
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4012backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
4013backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
4014backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
4015cacos NEW: ISO C 9x
4016cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4017cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4018cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4019cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4020cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4021capget NEW: kernel
4022capset NEW: kernel
4023carg NEW: ISO C 9x
4024cargf NEW: ISO C 9x
4025cargl NEW: ISO C 9x
4026casin NEW: ISO C 9x
4027casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4028casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4029casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4030casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4031casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4032catan NEW: ISO C 9x
4033catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4034catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4035catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4036catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4037catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
e980ca92 4038cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4039ccos NEW: ISO C 9x
4040ccosf NEW: ISO C 9x
4041ccosh NEW: ISO C 9x
4042ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
4043ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
4044ccosl NEW: ISO C 9x
4045cexp NEW: ISO C 9x
4046cexpf NEW: ISO C 9x
4047cexpl NEW: ISO C 9x
4048cimag NEW: ISO C 9x
4049cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
4050cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
4051clearerr_locked REMOVED
4052clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4053clog NEW: ISO C 9x
4054clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4055clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4056clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4057clogf NEW: ISO C 9x
4058clogl NEW: ISO C 9x
4059conj NEW: ISO C 9x
4060conjf NEW: ISO C 9x
4061conjl NEW: ISO C 9x
4062cpow NEW: ISO C 9x
4063cpowf NEW: ISO C 9x
4064cpowl NEW: ISO C 9x
4065cproj NEW: ISO C 9x
4066cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
4067cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
4068creal NEW: ISO C 9x
4069crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
4070creall NEW: ISO C 9x
4071creat64 NEW: LFS
4072csin NEW: ISO C 9x
4073csinf NEW: ISO C 9x
4074csinh NEW: ISO C 9x
4075csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4076csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4077csinl NEW: ISO C 9x
4078csqrt NEW: ISO C 9x
4079csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
4080csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
4081ctan NEW: ISO C 9x
4082ctanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4083ctanh NEW: ISO C 9x
4084ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
4085ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
4086ctanl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4087des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
4088ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4089endutxent NEW: Unix98
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4090exp10 NEW: ISO C 9x
4091exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
4092exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
4093exp2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4094exp2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4095exp2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4096fattach NEW: STREAMS
4097fdetach NEW: STREAMS
4098fdim NEW: ISO C 9x
4099fdimf NEW: ISO C 9x
4100fdiml NEW: ISO C 9x
4101feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4102fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4103fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4104fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4105feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4106feof_locked REMOVED
4107feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4108ferror_locked REMOVED
4109fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4110fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
4111fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
4112fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
4113feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
4114fflush_locked REMOVED
4115ffsl NEW: GNU ext.
4116ffsll NEW: GNU ext.
4117fgetpos64 NEW: LFS
4118fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4119fileno_locked REMOVED
4120fma NEW: ISO C 9x
4121fmaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4122fmal NEW: ISO C 9x
4123fmax NEW: ISO C 9x
4124fmaxf NEW: ISO C 9x
4125fmaxl NEW: ISO C 9x
4126fmin NEW: ISO C 9x
4127fminf NEW: ISO C 9x
4128fminl NEW: ISO C 9x
62595351 4129fmtmsg NEW: Unix98
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4130fopen64 NEW: LFS
4131fputc_locked REMOVED
4132fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4133fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4134freopen64 NEW: LFS
4135fseeko NEW: Unix98
4136fsetpos64 NEW: LFS
4137fstatfs64 NEW: LFS
4138fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
4139fstatvfs64 NEW: LFS
4140ftello NEW: Unix98
4141ftello64 NEW: LFS
4142ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
4143ftw64 NEW: LFS
4144fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
4145gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
4146gamma_r REMOVED
4147gammaf_r REMOVED
4148gammal_r REMOVED
4149getchar_locked REMOVED
4150getdate NEW: Unix98
4151getdate_err NEW: Unix98
4152getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
4153getmsg NEW: STREAMS
4154getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
e980ca92 4155getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
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4156getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
4157getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
4158getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
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4159getutxent NEW: Unix98
4160getutxid NEW: Unix98
4161getutxline NEW: Unix98
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4162glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
4163globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
4164gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
4165gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
4166grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
e980ca92 4167host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
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4168iconv NEW: iconv
4169iconv_close NEW: iconv
4170iconv_open NEW: iconv
4171if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
4172if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
4173if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
4174if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
4175in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
4176in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
4177inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
4178isastream NEW: STREAMS
4179iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
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4180key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4181key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4182key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
4183key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
4184key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
4185key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
4186key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
4187key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
4188key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
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4189llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4190llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4191llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4192llround NEW: ISO C 9x
4193llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4194llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4195log2 NEW: ISO C 9x
4196log2f NEW: ISO C 9x
4197log2l NEW: ISO C 9x
4198lrint NEW: ISO C 9x
4199lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4200lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
4201lround NEW: ISO C 9x
4202lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4203lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4204lseek64 NEW: LFS
4205makecontext NEW: Unix98
4206mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
4207mmap64 NEW: LFS
4208moncontrol REMOVED
4209modify_ldt NEW: kernel
4210nan NEW: ISO C 9x
4211nanf NEW: ISO C 9x
4212nanl NEW: ISO C 9x
4213nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
4214nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
4215nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4216netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
4217netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
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4218nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
4219nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
4220nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
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4221nftw NEW: Unix98
4222nftw64 NEW: LFS
4223open64 NEW: LFS
e980ca92 4224passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
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4225pow10 NEW: GNU ext.
4226pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
4227pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
4228pread NEW: Unix98
4229pread64 NEW: LFS
4230printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
4231printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
4232profil_counter REMOVED
4233pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
4234pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
4235ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
4236ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
4237putc_locked REMOVED
4238putchar_locked REMOVED
4239putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
4240putmsg NEW: STREAMS
4241putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
62595351 4242pututxline NEW: Unix98
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4243pwrite NEW: Unix98
4244pwrite64 NEW: LFS
4245readdir64 NEW: LFS
4246readdir64_r NEW: LFS
4247remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
4248remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
4249remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
4250round NEW: ISO C 9x
4251roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
4252roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
4253rtime NEW: GNU ext.
4254scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
4255scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
4256scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
4257scandir64 NEW: LFS
4258sendfile NEW: kernel
4259setcontext NEW: Unix98
4260setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
62595351 4261setutxent NEW: Unix98
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4262sighold NEW: Unix98
4263sigignore NEW: Unix98
4264sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
4265sigrelse NEW: Unix98
4266sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
4267sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
4268sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
4269sincos NEW: GNU ext.
4270sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
4271sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
4272statfs64 NEW: LFS
4273statvfs NEW: Unix98
4274statvfs64 NEW: LFS
4275strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
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4276strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4277strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4278strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
e980ca92 4279svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
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4280svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
4281svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
4282swapcontext NEW: Unix98
4283tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
4284tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
4285tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
4286tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
4287tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
4288tmpfile64 NEW: LFS
4289trunc NEW: ISO C 9x
4290truncate64 NEW: LFS
4291truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
4292truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
4293umount2 NEW: kernel
4294unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
62595351 4295updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
e980ca92 4296user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
62595351 4297utmpxname NEW: Unix98
48244d09 4298versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3ef4002b 4299versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
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4300waitid NEW: Unix98
4301wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4302wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
4303wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
4304wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
4305wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
4306wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
4307wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
4308wcswcs NEW: Unix98
4309wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
4310wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
4311write_profiling REMOVED
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4312xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
4313xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
4314xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
4315xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
4316xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
4317xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
4318xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
4319xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
4320xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
4321xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
4322xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
4323xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
4324xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
48244d09 4325xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
e980ca92 4326xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
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4329Version 2.0.6
4330
4331* more bug fixes
4332
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4333\f
4334Version 2.0.5
4335
4336* more bug fixes
4337
4338* inet_ntoa is thread-safe
4339
4340* updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
4341
4342* rewrite of cbrt function
4343
4344* update of timezone data
4345\f
4346Version 2.0.4
4347
4348* more bug fixes
4349\f
4350Version 2.0.3
4351
4352* more bug fixes
c84142e8 4353\f
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4354Version 2.0.2
4355
4356* more bug fixes
4357
4358* add atoll function
4359
4360* fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
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4362* fix math functions
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4364Version 2.0.1
4365
4366* fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
4367
4368* dynamic loader preserves all registers
4369
4370* Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
4371 the ELF dynamic loader.
4372
4373* support for parallel builds is improved
4374\f
40a4b79f 4375Version 2.0
28f540f4 4376
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4377* GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
4378 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
4379 `-D_GNU_SOURCE'.
4380
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4381* The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
4382 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
4383 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
4384 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
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4385 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
4386 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
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4387 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
4388 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
4389 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
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4390 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
4391 files in the ELF format.
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4392
4393* Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
4394 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
4395
4396* The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
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4397 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
4398 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
4399 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
4400 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
4401 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
4402 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
4403 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
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4404 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
4405 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
4406 about dynamically linked binaries.
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4408* The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
4409 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
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4410 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
4411 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
4412 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
71733723 4413
f7eac6eb 4414* The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
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4415 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
4416 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
4417 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
4418 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
4419
4420* John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
f7eac6eb 4421
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4422* Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
4423 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
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4424 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
4425 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
4426 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
4427 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
4428 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
4429 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
4430 NSS services available.
5f0e6fc7 4431
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4432* The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
4433 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
4434 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
4435
4436* The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
4437 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
4438 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
4439
4440* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
4441 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
4442 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
4443 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
4444
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4445* The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
4446 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
4447 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
4448
4449* The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
4450 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
4451 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
4452
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4453* The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
4454 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
4455
f7eac6eb 4456* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
33a934a3 4457 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
b7407d63 4458 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
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4459 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
4460
4461* There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
4462 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
4463 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
f7eac6eb 4464
71733723 4465* You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
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4466 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
4467 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
4468 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
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4469 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
4470 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
49e522bf 4471 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
d365fd2c 4472 the header file <printf.h> for details.
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4473
4474* The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
4475 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
4476 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
4477 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
4478 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
4479 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
4480 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
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4481
4482* The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
4483 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
4484 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
4485 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
4486 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
4487 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
4488
4489* The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
4490 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4491
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4492* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
4493 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
4494 NSS scheme used in glibc.
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4496* There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
4497
4498* There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
4499 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
4500 their use is discouraged.
4501
4502* The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
4503 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
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4505* New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
4506 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
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4507
4508* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
4509 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
4510
4511* The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
4512 see <dirent.h>.
4513
4514* The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
4515 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
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4516 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
4517 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
4518 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
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4519
4520* The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
4521 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
4522 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
4523 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
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4524
4525* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
4526 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
4527
4528* Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
4529 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
4530 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
4531 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
4532 number generator.
4533
4534* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
4535 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
4536
4537* Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
4538 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
4539
71733723 4540* Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
c709e372 4541 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
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4542 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
4543 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
c709e372 4544
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4545* Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
4546
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4547* David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
4548 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
4549 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
4550
4551* Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
4552 for arithmetic and string handling.
d3669add 4553
c709e372 4554* Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
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4555 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
4556 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
4557 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
4558
4559* For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
4560 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
4561 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
4562 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
4563 programs already written to use it.)
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4564
4565* New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
4566 constants.
4567
4568* Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
4569 with 4.4 BSD.
4570
4571* New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
4572 a given effective group ID.
4573
4574* When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
4575 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
4576 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
4577 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
4578
4579* New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6d52618b 4580 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
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4581 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
4582 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
4583 doing the same thing.
4584
4585* The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
4586 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
4587
4588* New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
33a934a3 4589 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
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4590
4591* New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
4592
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4593* We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
4594 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
4595 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6d52618b 4596 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
999493cb 4597 `-ldb' to get these functions.
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4598
4599* New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
4600 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
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4601
4602* New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
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4603 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
4604 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
4605 function.
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4606
4607* New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
4608
4609* The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
4610 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
4611 strings.
4612
4613* A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
4614 and writing the utmp file.
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4615
4616* An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
4617 Thorsten Kukuk.
4618
4619* Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
4620 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
4621 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
4622
4623* Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
4624 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
4625
4626* Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
4627 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
4628 specification.
4629
4630* The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
4631 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
4632 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
4633 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
4634
4635* Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
4636 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
4637 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
4638
4639* Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
4640 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
4641 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
4642 expression matcher.
4643
4644* the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
4645 functionality.
4646
4647* The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
4648 by Ulrich Drepper.
4649
4650* David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
4651
4652* POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
4653 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
4654 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
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4655\f
4656Version 1.09
4657
4658* For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
4659
4660* New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
4661 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
4662
4663* The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
4664 want to put themselves in the background.
4665
4666* Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
4667 run without an operating system.
4668
4669* `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4670 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4671
4672* All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4673 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4674
4675* The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4676
4677* The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4678 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4679 have YP (aka NIS).
4680
4681* The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4682 conventions.
4683
4684* The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4685 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4686\f
4687Version 1.08
4688
4689* The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4690 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4691 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4692
4693* Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4694 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4695
4696* The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4697 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4698
4699* New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4700
4701* New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4702
4703* New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4704 compatibility.
4705
4706* The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4707 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4708 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4709
4710* The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4711
4712* The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4713 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4714 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4715
4716* The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4717 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4718 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4719 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4720 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4721 on a block).
4722
4723* It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4724 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4725 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4726 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4727 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4728 cross-compiler.
4729
4730* The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4731 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4732\f
4733Version 1.07
4734
4735* Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4736 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4737
4738* You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4739 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4740 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4741
4742* The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4743 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4744 address of the last character written.
4745
4746* You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4747 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4748
4749* You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4750 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4751
4752* ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4753 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4754 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4755 you dereference this pointer.
4756
4757* The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4758 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4759
4760* The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4761 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4762 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4763 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4764
4765* The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4766 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4767 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4768 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4769\f
4770Version 1.06
4771
4772* The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4773 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4774 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4775 in Emacs or the `info' program.
ea278354 4776 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
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4778* The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4779
4780* Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4781
4782* Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4783 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4784
4785* The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4786 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4787
4788* New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4789 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4790
4791* The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4792 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4793 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4794 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4795 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4796
4797* There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4798 to the error code in `errno'.
4799
4800* In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4801 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4802 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4803 malloc'd string.
4804
4805* The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4806 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4807 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4808
4809* `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4810 uniquely-named temporary file.
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4812Version 1.05
4813
4814* The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4815 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4816 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4817
4818* The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4819 characters.
4820
4821* `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4822 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4823
4824* New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4825\f
4826Version 1.04
4827
4828* The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4829 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4830 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4831 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4832
4833* The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4834 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4835 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4836
4837* Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4838 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4839
4840* The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4841 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4842 made itself into a shared library.
4843
4844* Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4845 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4846
4847* New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4848 with limited length.
4849
4850* New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4851
4852* New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4853
4854* New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4855
4856* Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4857 function for traversing a directory tree.
4858
4859* The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4860 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4861 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4862 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4863
4864* Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4865 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4866
4867* `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4868
4869* The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4870 things to your strings.
4871
4872* There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4873
4874* Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4875 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4876 supporting those systems.
4877
4878* `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4879 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4880 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4881 configuration files.
4882
4883* The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4884 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4885
4886* The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
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4888 in <strings.h>.)
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4889
4890* Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4891 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4892 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4893 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4894 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4895 required storage is not available.
4896
4897* The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4898 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
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4900* The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4901 latest files released from Berkeley.
4902\f
4903----------------------------------------------------------------------
4904Copyright information:
4905
09533208 4906Copyright (C) 1992-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4907
4908 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
4909 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
4910 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
4911 thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
4912
4913 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
4914 of this document, or of portions of it,
4915 under the above conditions, provided also that they
4916 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
4917\f
4918Local variables:
4919version-control: never
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